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CBA maintains support for customers facing ongoing cost of living pressures
While interest rates are helping to bring inflation down, momentum has slowed which means consumers are still dealing with price challenges says CE...
13 November 2024
Remembrance Day 2024: 80 years on from the dawn of hope in WWII
As World War Two entered what proved to be its final year, CBA’s leaders expressed optimism that the fighting might soon be over. But they also kne...
7 November 2024
Everybody - especially economists - wants to change the world
Economics governs everything from our supermarket bills, the taxes we pay and climate change, but fewer young people are choosing to learn the subj...
30 September 2024
That’s a grand, final CBA dividend
Following the announcement at the Bank’s FY24 annual results last month, shareholders will receive a fully franked $2.50 a share pay-out this Frida...
26 September 2024
Geelong a beacon for growth in regional Australia
On a visit to the fast-growing south-west region of Victoria, CBA CEO Matt Comyn got a first-hand look at the businesses helping to provide local j...
24 September 2024
CBA remains well positioned to provide on-going support for customers
Consistent third quarter performance assists CommBank’s ability to help Australians impacted by the higher cost of living while providing stability...
9 May 2024
Building a nation: how Commonwealth Bank helped to house the Anzacs after World War One
Rising house and rental prices, high construction costs and materials shortages were as big a problem in post-WW1 Australia as they are today. A ce...
22 April 2024
CommBank continues to support our customers and the Australian economy
Commonwealth Bank will maintain and increase where necessary its support for customers after a challenging 2023 caused by cost-of-living pressures ...
14 February 2024
Remembering the CBA staffers who served and fought for their country
A decades-old family picture holds the secrets of Bert Phillips, a quiet but dedicated CommBank employee who fought at the battle of Singapore in W...
7 November 2023
Michele Bullock delivers first speech as RBA Governor to CBA’s Global Markets Conference
New RBA Governor outlines to CommBank-hosted audience the importance of keeping inflation low, maintaining full employment while ensuring financial...
25 October 2023
CBA delivers improved financial outcomes through continued focus on customers
The result demonstrates continued focus on supporting customers, investing in communities, and providing strength and stability for the broader eco...
9 August 2023
The wait is over with the CommBank Matildas ready for a World Cup on home soil
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicks off two years after Commonwealth Bank and Football Australia announced their historic partnership.
20 July 2023
Sir Denison Miller: The banker for all Australians
Banking defined every aspect of Denison Miller’s adult working life but it was as much as a surprise to him as it was to the country that he emerge...
5 June 2023
Sir Denison Miller: Laying the foundations of the common wealth of Australia
How a little-known banker from a country town in NSW created the Commonwealth Bank and helped build modern-day Australia from the ground up.
5 June 2023
Customer focus and balance sheet strength, delivering for all stakeholders
Our focus on customers, underpinned by our balance sheet strength and consistent operational execution has delivered record customer advocacy score...
9 May 2023
Australia’s T20 World Cup-winning cricketers are “simply the best” — ever
Coming two years after their victory at the MCG that secured back-to-back titles, the national women’s team’s latest triumph saw them make it an un...
3 March 2023
Australia faces slowdown in economic growth but should avoid recession, says CBA
The bank’s economics team are forecasting interest rates to rise further to combat high inflation, but for cuts to follow by the end of this year t...
15 February 2023
CBA reports half year profit of $5.15 billion while continuing to focus on customers
Customer focus and disciplined strategic execution have delivered strong financial results for the six months to 31 December 2022.
15 February 2023
CBA delivers a solid start to the 2023 financial year
In its first quarter trading update, CBA reports after-tax cash profits of $2.5 billion with consistent and disciplined execution of its strategy d...
15 November 2022
‘To those who made the supreme sacrifice’: CBA commemorates Remembrance Day
“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. Lest we forget.”
11 November 2022
Federal Budget October 2022: Commodity prices forecasts too ‘conservative’: CBA
Global challenges such as the Ukraine war and China’s COVID-zero policy will continue to weigh on key mining and energy raw materials, inflating so...
26 October 2022
Federal Budget October 2022: Australia’s population growth set to resume
The re-opening of the country’s international borders and the return of overseas migrants will provide a much-needed boost to GDP and help reduce l...
26 October 2022
Federal Budget October 2022: CBA expects inflation to fall slightly faster from its peak
Treasury is forecasting inflation (ie. a period of rising prices) to peak at 7.75% by the end of 2022, before dropping back over the coming two yea...
26 October 2022
Disciplined operational performance delivers full year CBA profit uplift
CBA shareholders will receive a $2.10 per share final dividend to take the total for FY22 to $3.85, fully franked.
10 August 2022
CBA reports third quarter cash profits of $2.4 billion as the economic momentum remains strong
Disciplined execution on the group’s strategy including continued growth across Commbank’s core banking businesses and sound credit quality underpi...
12 May 2022
CommBank’s Chair-elect Paul O’Malley
Paul O’Malley’s approach to strategic development, forged at BlueScope Steel among other senior executive roles, has equipped him well for the task...
27 April 2022
CBA chairman to retire after setting a new course for the bank
Catherine Livingstone has led the Board through a challenging and transformative period for CommBank with the stage set and the timing right for he...
27 April 2022
Care, courage and commitment epitomised on the “frontline”
Reservists play a critical part in today’s Australian Defence Force. CBA Newsroom talks to six of the bank’s reservists about the importance of the...
25 April 2022
Serving the country and the bank: honouring our defence force reservists
As Australia is once again able to publicly commemorate Anzac Day, we mark the unstinting and humble effort of those CBA staffers who “don the unif...
22 April 2022
The network effect and how it is changing the face of work at CBA
With LinkedIn having named CommBank as number one in its annual Top 25 companies for career progression, Sian Lewis explains the importance of prof...
6 April 2022
Federal Budget 2022: Population growth on the rise after COVID-19
With the pandemic having seen migration to Australia stall to almost zero in 2021, the re-opening of international borders is now forecast to help ...
30 March 2022
Federal Budget 2022 – CBA ‘bullish’ on the outlook for key commodity prices
CommBank’s economists are expecting prices for iron ore, coking and thermal coal to remain higher than the Budget’s longer term forecasts, which th...
30 March 2022
Federal Budget 2022 – The spending areas and key numbers to watch: CommBank
With all eyes on next week’s Budget, CBA’s Chief Economist Stephen Halmarick looks at the likely impact on the economy and who could benefit from t...
25 March 2022
Economy “firing on all cylinders” set to deliver $40b Budget benefit
Stronger employment numbers, lower welfare payments and surging commodity prices will help improve the bottom line in next week’s Federal Budget ac...
22 March 2022
CBA announces an increase in 1H22 profits and improved dividend
The Group has today unveiled a 23 per cent uplift in its cash profit for the first half of its 2022 financial year, supported by lower loan loss pr...
9 February 2022
CBA delivers for customers and shareholders
The strength of our business combined with a focus on supporting our customers has resulted in strong returns for our shareholders with an increase...
11 August 2021
CBA reports third quarter profit uplift to $2.4b, contributing to the recovery
The group’s disciplined focus in both mortgages and business lending has helped drive strong operational performance, as the effect of the COVID-19...
12 May 2021
Kicking goals from the elite level to the grassroots
CBA and Football Australia have signed a dynamic new partnership to develop the national women’s game at all levels - using the 2023 Women’s World ...
13 April 2021
CBA’s 1H21 result underpins ambition to build “tomorrow’s bank today” for customers
Interim profit delivers improving outcome for shareholders with half year dividend of $1.50 a share, writes Danny John.
10 February 2021
A CBA soldier’s story
Coming home from World War II didn’t happen overnight and was often a long journey, as one solider (and former Commonwealth Bank staffer) explains.
11 November 2020
Commonwealth Bank head offices through the years
In 2022, CBA will move into its new head office at Commonwealth Bank Square South in Harbour Street, Sydney. The refurbished building, previously t...
11 November 2020
CBA at war: Financing the war
The Commonwealth Bank played a significant role in helping fund the war efforts, promoting fund-raising campaigns and advertising the bonds.
11 November 2020
Lest we forget
It’s been 75 years since the end of WWII. And while a lot has happened in the intervening years, the sacrifices made by so many men and women – inc...
11 November 2020
A Tale of Two Pandemics: The Spanish Flu 1919-1920 - economic impacts and recovery
Exactly 100 years ago, another pandemic - the Spanish flu - brought the country to its knees. Despite the passing of time, economically and sociall...
7 October 2020
CBA delivers strong performance in a challenging environment
Commonwealth Bank has unveiled a cash net profit from continuing operations for the 2020 Financial Year of $7.3 billion.
12 August 2020
A tale of two pandemics: CBA during the Spanish flu
Danny John and Juli Liddicoat investigate what the world looked like for Commonwealth Bank employees and customers, as seen through the eyes of the...
22 April 2020
Profit result builds on Commonwealth Bank's core strengths
Commonwealth Bank has delivered a solid profit result for the first half of the 2020 financial year by building on the core strength of its retail ...
12 February 2020
