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WBC	Sydney	AUD	Delayed
WBCPE	Sydney	AUD	Delayed
WBC	New Zealand	NZD	Delayed

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23.900 +0.030 +0.13%

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Volume: 6,385,312
Bid/Ask: 23.890 / 23.900
Day's Range: 23.900 - 24.190

Type: Equity

Market: Australia

ISIN: AU000000WBC1

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$'Free money' for banks as investors pile into fractured gold market$

'Free money' for banks as investors pile into fractured gold market By Reuters - Sep 21, 2020 5

By Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) - Banks are making huge profits from gold as investors flood into a market fractured by the coronavirus crisis. The world's largest 50 investment banks are on track to...

Australian regulator loses legal appeal in Westpac bank lending case By Reuters - Jun 26, 2020

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian appeals court on Friday threw out a regulator lawsuit against Westpac Banking Corp (AX:WBC), saying the country's second largest lender's method for...

Australia's Westpac unveils findings from compliance review By Reuters - Jun 03, 2020

(Reuters) - Australian lender Westpac Banking Corp (AX:WBC) said on Thursday its millions of breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws were caused by "faults of omission" and not...

NatWest appoints Westpac executive as retail banking boss By Reuters - May 18, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - British state-backed bank NatWest (L:RBS) has appointed Westpac (AX:WBC) executive David Lindberg as chief executive of its retail banking business. Lindberg will be tasked with...

Australia's Westpac admits to breaches of money-laundering laws By Reuters - May 15, 2020

(Reuters) - Australia's Westpac Banking Corp (AX:WBC) said in a defence filing in Federal Court on Friday it was admitting to a number of failures in a case where it has been accused of 23 million...

Lockdown bill likely to get much bigger for Australia's top banks By Reuters - May 05, 2020

By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's big banks have warned that credit losses from the country's first recession in three decades will top A$17 billion (8.7 billion pounds), but analysts...

Australian regulator urges banks, insurers to defer dividends amid virus outbreak By Reuters - Apr 07, 2020

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's prudential regulator on Tuesday asked banks and insurers to consider deferring dividend payouts or use buffers like dividend reinvestment plans until the impact of the...

Australia's Westpac gives acting CEO two years to tackle coronavirus crisis By Reuters - Apr 02, 2020

(Reuters) - Westpac Banking Corp (AX:WBC) on Thursday said it was entrusting acting chief executive Peter King with the role for two years to bring leadership stability amid the coronavirus pandemic...

Australia regulator says banks must provision for virus loan holiday By Reuters - Mar 23, 2020

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's banking watchdog on Monday said lenders must account for possible loss from the loan repayment holidays they offered borrowers affected by the coronavirus last week, to...

U.S. class actions pile up against Australia's Westpac amid money-laundering scandal By Reuters - Feb 03, 2020

(Reuters) - Australia's No.2 lender Westpac Banking Corp (AX:WBC) was hit with a second U.S. class-action lawsuit in less than a week on Monday, over issues with its financial crime monitoring...

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