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2023 Media

Prepare for a Kiwi Invasion! Anthony Albanese's Government Set to Make It Easier for New Zealanders to be Granted Citizenship - and How They've Been Quietly Lobbying Labor

20 February 2023 / Daily Mail Australia
The Hon. Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer
'This has been a big issue for a long time, and I wanted to acknowledge it in this forum – the difficulty that so many New Zealanders have getting on a pathway to citizenship in Australia,' he told the Australian Banking Association and the Trans - Tasman Business Circle lunch.

Reports of Wellington’s Fall to Beijing are Premature

7 February 2023 / The Australian
Rt Hon Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Senior New Zealand diplomats report Australian officials reliably use the phrase “a special relationship like no other”. They say the relationship is the strongest ever, including people-to-people ties, business links through the Trans-Tasman Business Circle that Hipkins will meet first on arrival, and on climate change, intelligence and defence.

2022 Media

Why Does Business Care About the Metaverse?

15 September 2022 / Information Age, ACS
Sarah Sorrenson, Media & Digital Hub Director, Unilever ANZ
“These virtual worlds and gaming are driving mainstream culture, so from a brand perspective we really want to be where consumers are consuming culture,” Sarah Sorrenson, media and digital hub director with consumer goods giant Unilever – whose brands include Dove, Lynx, Cornetto, Rexona, and Ben & Jerry’s – told a recent Trans-Tasman Business Circle webinar.

ANZ, eSafety Commissioner Engage on Metaverse User Protections

13 September 2022 / Financial Review
Nigel Dobson, Banking Services Portfolio Lead, ANZ Banking Group
In a Trans Tasman Business Circle webinar on Tuesday which highlighted thorny policy issues for banks trying to define roles inside cutting-edge technologies, ANZ banking services lead Nigel Dobson called on regulators to catch up and work out a digital identity regime that will help banks navigate the uncertain terrain.

Why Financial Institutions Hold The Keys to ESG Success

9 June 2022 / ServiceNow
Ann Sherry AO, Non-Executive Director, National Australia Bank; Chun-Yen Liu, Chief Investment Officer - Investment, AIA Singapore; Emma Herd, Oceania Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY and Matthew Talbot, Head of Financial Services, Asia Pacific and Japan, ServiceNow
ServiceNow partnered with the Trans – Tasman Business Circle to host the 'Purpose & Profit: ESG and Financial Services APAC region' private virtual briefing. Featuring Ann Sherry AO, Non-Executive Director, National Australia Bank; Chun-Yen Liu, Chief Investment Officer - Investment, AIA Singapore; Emma Herd, Oceania Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, EY and Matthew Talbot, Head of Financial Services, Asia Pacific and Japan, ServiceNow.

Trans–Tasman Business Circle Women Leaders Study Tour ‘Leadership for Sustainable Success’ – ‘People, Planet and Profit’

1 June 2022 / Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
Sam Mostyn AO, Chief Executive Women President
The Trans-Tasman Business Circle and Capgemini with the support of Boxing Clever, are delighted to announce the third Women Leaders Study Tour to be held in June 2022 ‘Leadership for Sustainable Success – People, Planet and Profit’2 June

Pandemic accelerates adoption but widens digital divide

1 April 2022 / ITbrief
Lyndall Stoyles, Group General Counsel & Group Executive, Sustainability, External Affairs and Legal, Telstra
Ann-Marie Cavanagh, Deputy Chief Executive Digital Public Service, Deputy Government CDO, Department of Internal Affairs NZ Jessica Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, Good Things Foundation Australia
That's the key message from Thursday's AfterNext roundtable, which included cross-sector leaders from Telstra, NZ Government and Good Things Foundation Australia. The roundtable was hosted by Infosys, a global next-generation digital services and consulting company, in collaboration with Trans-Tasman Business Circle.

Employers urged to embrace hybrid working

29 March 2022 / Bunbury Mail
Alex Badenoch, Group Executive Transformation, Communications and People, Telstra
Telstra group executive for transformation, communications and people Alex Badenoch will tell business leaders "we don't waste time debating who should be in the office and when". In a speech at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on Tuesday, Ms Badenoch warns top talent will "walk" if they cannot align work requirements with their own values and expectations.

Employers urged to embrace hybrid working

29 March 2022 / 7News
Alex Badenoch, Group Executive Transformation, Communications and People, Telstra
Telstra group executive for transformation, communications and people Alex Badenoch will tell business leaders "we don't waste time debating who should be in the office and when". In a speech at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on Tuesday, Ms Badenoch warns top talent will "walk" if they cannot align work requirements with their own values and expectations.

Salesforce Commits To Training 400 New Zealanders In Digital Skills

18 March 2022 / Scoop Media
The Hon David Clark, Minister For The Digital Economy and Communications
Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today announced its commitment to train 400 New Zealanders in Salesforce skills through its support of Mission Ready and an expansion of its relationship with TupuToa. The announcement was made this morning at Salesforce’s, ‘The Digital Imperative in Aotearoa New Zealand’, event hosted in partnership with the Trans-Tasman Business Circle. The event also featured an address from Hon David Clark, Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications, covering his priorities in the portfolio.

Salesforce to train 400 Kiwis with Mission Ready and TupuToa

18 March 2022 / Ecommerce News NZ
The Hon David Clark, Minister For The Digital Economy and Communications
Salesforce has announced its commitment to train 400 New Zealanders in Salesforce skills through its support of Mission Ready and an expansion of its relationship with TupuToa. The announcement was made at Salesforce's 'The Digital Imperative in Aotearoa New Zealand' event hosted in partnership with the Trans-Tasman Business Circle. The event also featured an address from Hon David Clark, minister for the digital economy and communications, covering his priorities in the portfolio.

2021 Media

Unvaccinated travellers to face bans on flights within Australia

19 October 2021 / Executive Traveller
Jayne Hrdlicka, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Virgin Australia
"That's my expectation – it's not been mandated yet by the Government, but I would expect that there will be some constraints with respect to first movements as borders come down," Hrdlicka told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on September 17, forecasting that for Virgin's domestic travellers "in November and December (there) will need to be verification of vaccination."

Coronavirus: Sir John Key says business response to COVID-19 plan 'overwhelming positive', swats away criticism from 'Twitter'

2 October 2021 / News Hub NZ
Sir John Phillip Key GNZM AC
Speaking to the trans-Tasman Business Circle on Friday, Sir John said the response to his piece from the business community had been "overwhelmingly positive". He noted there were some on "the left in the media or the left on Twitter" who disagreed with his COVID-19 thoughts, but that was likely to happen whatever he said "so it won't slow me down".

United to Place Unvaccinated Employees on Unpaid Leave

9 September 2021 / Business Travel News
Alan Joyce, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Qantas Airways Limited
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce this week said unvaccinated passengers would be banned from international flights once Australia's borders reopen, which could be in December, according to a report from Australia's Traveller publication. Those comments came during a speech to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle.

Why business needs to embrace inflation culture

8 June 2021 / chanticleer / Australian Financial Review
Joseph Healy, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Judo bank
Warren Hogan, Chief Economic Advisor, Judo Bank
Nathalie Reymond, Director, Reymond Group
Hogan says that in order for Australia to have an “inflation problem”, wages have to start rising because it’s the biggest cost in the economy.But he told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch on Monday that Australian business is not used to the idea of inflation and does not have the inflation mindset.

Housing debt 'explosion' looms over the horizon: Judo Bank

7 June 2021 / Clancy Yates / The Sydney Morning Herald
Joseph Healy, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Judo bank
Warren Hogan, Chief Economic Advisor, Judo Bank
Nathalie Reymond, Director, Reymond Group
Despite his concerns about housing debt, Mr Healy painted an upbeat view on the outlook for business credit, and also confirmed the company was considering bringing forward plans to potentially float the business, in order to access capital. “So for me that’s one of the clouds on the horizon,” Mr Healy said at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event in Sydney.

Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern To Give Keynote At Captains Lunch 2021

22 April 2021 / Scoop
Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Sport & Recreation, Hon Grant Robertson and Chief Executive of Sport New Zealand, Raelene Castle ONZM (Ngāpuhi) will headline the annual Captains Lunch at Eden Park on Friday 7 May 2021, being staged in partnership between Women in Sport Aotearoa and Trans - Tasman Business Circle. As partners, Women in Sport Aotearoa (WISPA) and Trans-Tasman Business Circle (TTBC) firmly believe that the Captains Lunch is an important dialogue, celebrating women with the focus on bringing sport and business communities together in one room to meet and connect in person. With COVID-19 playing havoc with sport and disproportionately affecting women’s sport globally, it’s also a place where up to 400 leaders will celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand’s ongoing leadership during the pandemic and its role as host to three upcoming women’s World Cups in cricket, rugby and football.

2020 Media

CBA boss Matt Comyn urges Victoria to reopen to save small businesses

19 October 2020 / Joyce Moullakis / The Australian
Matt Comyn, CEO and Managing Director, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and
Vittoria Shortt, Chief Executive Officer, ASB Bank
Speaking at a Trans Tasman Business Circle online event, Mr Comyn also joined a chorus of business leaders urging Victoria to accelerate the easing of COVID-19 restrictions due to the “huge impact” on struggling small businesses.

Mental health crisis calls for staggered reopening: Bunnings

12 October 2020 / David Rowe / Australian Finacial Review
Michael Schneider, Managing Director, Bunnings Group and
Jacqui Coombes, ‎Director Group HR & New Zealand, Bunnings
During a webinar last Friday organised by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Bunnings' human resources director, Jacqui Coombes, who is based in New Zealand, said there was a nervousness among administrative staff about coming back to the office.

Good time for regional markets, says Bunnings chief Michael Schneider

9 October 2020 / Eli Greenblat / Australian Finacial Review
Michael Schneider, Managing Director, Bunnings Group and
Jacqui Coombes, ‎Director Group HR & New Zealand, Bunnings
Addressing an economic summit held by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Mr Schneider also spoke about the impact on the broader economy of the working from home trend, which he viewed as positive for a retailer like Bunnings as people changed their lifestyles. This would have a knock-on effect to the housing market, he added.

Good time for regional markets, says Bunnings chief Michael Schneider

2 October 2020 / Joyce Moullakis / The Australian
Ross McEwan, Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, National Australia Bank and
Angela Mentis, Managing Director & Chief Executive, BNZ
Addressing an economic summit held by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Mr Schneider also spoke about the impaa on the broader economy of the working from home trend, which he viewed as positive for a retailer like Bunnings as people changed their lifestyles. This would have a knock-on effect to the housing market, he added.

NAB chief Ross McEwan says banker pay must reflect COVID-19 customer, investor pain

2 October 2020 / Joyce Moullakis / The Australian
Ross McEwan, Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, National Australia Bank, Angela Mentis, Managing Director & Chief Executive, BNZ
At a Trans-Tasman Business Circle online event on Friday, he also called for a further relaxation of border restrictions by Australian states and for two-way travel to be opened between the nation and New Zealand, given both had managed the pandemic well. Tourism, skilled migration and population growth would help both economies recover from the sharp contraction in output caused by the pandemic, Mr McEwan said.

Spy partners fail to identify DDOS attackers

6 October 2020 / Geraden Cann/ New Zealand Business Review
Andrew Hampton, Director-General of the Government Communications Security Bureau
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks interrupted trading on the exchange in August before a decision was made to allow trading to continue even while the NZX's website was unavailable. NZX spokesman David Glendining wouldn't comment on Tuesday on whether the attacks were continuing, saying it was following expert advice not to reveal that, but indicated the threat remained. Speaking at an online event hosted by the Trans Tasman Business Circle, Hampton said other New Zealand organisations had been targeted by the group but had stayed out of "the headlines".

NZX attackers have eluded authorities for 2 years, GCSB director believes

6 October 2020 I Tom Pollard / Stuff
Andrew Hampton, Director-General of the Government Communications Security Bureau
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks interrupted trading on the exchange in August before a decision was made to allow trading to continue even while the NZX's website was unavailable. NZX spokesman David Glendining wouldn't comment on Tuesday on whether the attacks were continuing, saying it was following expert advice not to reveal that, but indicated the threat remained. Speaking at an online event hosted by the Trans Tasman Business Circle, Hampton said other New Zealand organisations had been targeted by the group but had stayed out of "the headlines".

NAB chief urges skilled worker 'bubble' between Australia and NZ

2 October 2020 / Charlotte Grieve/ The Age
Ross McEwan, Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, National Australia Bank, Angela Mentis, Managing Director & Chief Executive, BNZ
"You can imagine when unemployment goes up, everyone wants to pull the borders down and stop people coming in," Mr McEwan said, speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle summit on Friday before the announcement was made. "We have got to resist that massive temptation to listen to that."

Unleashing the power of New Zealand's small and medium enterprises

30 September 2020 I Mike Smith/ Stuff
Mike Smith. Managing Director. IBM New Zealand
In June, IBM partnered with the Trans-Tasman Business Circle to bring together some of New Zealand’s pre-eminent thought leaders, where we asked them to reimagine how the world could work in a post-Covid-19 environment. Central to this conversation was how could we unlock the productivity of our SMEs to help drive our economic recovery. Their insights were enlightening and are captured in the recently released discussion paper

Optus CEO Says Data Guzzling Websites Should Pay Telcos

30 September 2020 / April Glover/ Channel News
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, Chief Executive Officer, Optus
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says data-guzzling websites such as streaming services should help contribute to the cost of running networks. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle event this week. Bayer Rosmarin said large spikes of data usage during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the NBN pricing 'mismatch' and suggested a controversial idea to help telcos charge a fair rate to consumers.

COVID reveals NBN shortfalls and pricing 'mismatch', says Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin

30 September 2020 I Lachlan Moffet Gray I The Australian Business Review
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, Chief Executive Officer, Optus
Speaking at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on Tuesday Ms Bayer Rosmarin. who became CEO in April, said that the large spikes in data usage through the COVID crisis had demonstrated the "mismatch" in the NBN pricing system. "I think COVID-19 and the rapid increase in data consumption have shown some of the challenges of the current model of 0./C charging where all of us provide customers with a fixed price for access to their internet, but then the NBN charges us on a variable basis.

NZ businesses desperate for travel bubble with Australia

30 September 2020 / Mike Hosking Breakfast/ Newstalk ZB
Sharron Lloyd, General Manager - New Zealand, Trans - Tasman Business Circle
An Australian taskforce has unveiled plans to allow New Zealanders in the country by November, and start lifting state border restrictions by early December. But Jacinda Ardern says it may take longer for New Zealand to allow Australians here. Trans-Tasman Business Circle general manager Sharron Lloyd told Mike Hosking businesses can't wait much longer but she says they also support waiting until health officials give it the all clear.

ASX reverses early lift, JB Hi-Fi cautious on guidance

18 September 2020 / David Rodgers & Samantha Bailey/ The Australian
Phillip Parsons, General Manager, Logistics, Coca-Cola Amatil
Coca-Cola Amatil's general manager logistics, Phillip Parsons, told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle forum on Friday that the logistics industry continued to be hit hard by border closures and the Victorian lockdown. He pointed to a number of examples of his current frustrations, including Coke's inability to get people into its Melbourne facilities, disruption on the waterfront in Sydney and a truck driver from Melbourne to Brisbane getting stopped eight times at border crossings during his journey.

Boards warned of growing cyber risks

16 September 2020 / Damon Kitney / The Australian
David Irvine AO, Chair, Cyber Security Research Centre, Prof. Lesley Seebeck Phd, Professor In Practice Of Cyber Security. CEO, Cyber Institute, Anu. Bob Mansfield AO, Vocus Group Chairman & Cyber Security Strategy Industry Advisory Panel & Andrew Wildblood, Chief Executive Enterprise And Government, Vocus
In a forum with the Trans-Tasman Business Circle on Wednesday that also featured Foreign Investment Review Board chairman David Irvine, Mr Mansfield said cybersecurity issues were - becoming more prominent in boardroom discussions in the same way occupational health and safety issues had been elevated over the past 20 years.

Raelene Castle tells of death threats over Israel Folau 'issue'

04 September 2020 / Zoe George I Stuff
Raelene Castle ONZM
Castle was keynote speaker at the Women in Sport Aotearoa and trans-Tasman Business Circle's 'Change Inspires Change' session. She spoke via video link from her base in Sydney. In April 2019, Australia Rugby faced a cri sis when high-profile Wallaby Folau posted homophobic messages on social media. He was found to have breached the organization's code of conduct, and was stood down. The two parties settled out of court in December 2019.

I had death threats over Folau case, says ex-Rugby Australia chief Castle

04 September 2020 / KEO News Wire
Raelene Castle ONZM
"I had some very difficult times during it particularly with social media and death threats," Castle said as a keynote speaker at the Women in Sport Aotearoa and trans-Tasman Business Circle's 'Change Inspires Change' session. 'We had to close down the office and have extra security, and my house had to be checked out to make sure that it was safe and that no one could get into it or find me.

ANZ tries to give 'pre-web' tech learning experiences the boot

29 Jul y 2020 / Ry Crozier I it news
Opher Yom-Tov. Chief Design Officer. ANZ Banking Group
Chief design officer Opher Yom-Tov told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event last week that ANZ has "doubled down on digital literacy upskilling of all staff during the pandemic. Yom-Tov said his own team of 170 designers across ANZ initiated "a pretty exciting learning program", and had managed to secure a "reasonably respectful budget" for it, despite fears the budget would be reduced.

APRA extends capital guidelines for rest of 2020

27 July 2020 / Insurance News
Wayne Byres, Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
In a speech to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle last week. Chair Wayne Byres revealed the advice will be "shifting from the immediate, short-term emergency response in April to a setting with a somewhat longer-term outlook". 'We will modify the guidance, and extend it for the remainder of this calendar year/ he said. APRA's goal is to "combine ongoing prudence with flexibility."

Loan deferral strategy to flatten the curve: APRA

23 July 2020 / Mortgage Business
Wayne Byres, Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
Accordingly, APRA announced that it would extend capital concessions for banks, by not requiring them to treat deferred loans as impaired assets. Speaking to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle this week. APRA chair Wayne Byres commented: "Based on preliminary data for end June, about 1 O per cent of loans by the banking system - worth $269 billion - have had repayments deferred

Australian regulator flags change to dividend freeze, calls for prudence

22 July 2020 I Paulina Duran I The Chronicle Herald
Wayne Byres, Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
'We will be updating our capital management guidance next week." he told a business lobby, the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, in a speech. "Our goal is to combine ongoing prudence with flexibility." That meant capital management decisions had to weigh both an uncertain outlook and the fact that stress scenarios can be overcome without having to resort to cutting business activity, he added.

Bank regulator shifts to a long-term view

22 July 2020 / Paul Osborne I The West Australian
Wayne Byres, Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chair Wayne Byres told an online forum on Wednesday that five months into the pandemic "some of the more dire dire forecasts ... for the Australian and New Zealand economies look like they may have been avoided" 'We will be updating our capital management guidance next week." Mr Byres told the Trans-Tasman Business Circle.

APRA Chair Wayne Byres - Speech to Trans-Tasman Business Circle webinar

22 July 2020 / Paul Osborne I The West Australian
Wayne Byres, Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
Good afternoon, and thank you to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle for organising today's event. Given the Circle's role in bringing people and ideas together, it is great to see its active program of events is continuing in a COVID world, and I'm certainly happy to contribute to the program today.

Australian Banking Regulator Flags Change to Dividend Freeze, Calls for Prudence

22 July 2020 /Reuters/ The New York Times
Wayne Byres, Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
In a speech on Wednesday to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, a business lobby, the Australian Prudential Regulator Authority (APRA) Chairman Wayne Byres said the degree of uncertainty about the local economy was now lower than when it asked banks to consider deferring dividend payouts in April.

Pandemic shows up digital divide

10 July 2020 / Tony Boyd / Australian Financial Review
Andrew Penn, CEO & Managing Director, Telstra
His comments, in a speech to a virtual event organised by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, came as Boston Consulting Group released a new study on how COVID is giving greater urgency to digital transformations. BCG managing director and senior partner Stefan Mohr says digital has always been important to business but it is going to matter a lot more "because through the crisis the paradigms that have limited us have shifted rapidly".

Trans-Tasman travel bubble may expand to Pacific, but won’t be rushed

27 May 2020 / Eli Greenblat / The Australian Business Review
Adrian Littlewood, Chief Executive, Auckland Airport & Ann Sherry AO, Co-Chair, ANZLF
Speaking at the trans-Tasman Business Circle, Auckland Airport CEO Adrian Littlewood said the two countries could actually benefit from the slow emergence of global travel, becoming more attractive in the eyes of international tourists who viewed the countries as safe due to their success in suppressing the coronavirus and their quality public health systems.

Transtasman bubble could be in the sky by July - once protocols are in place

28 May 2020 / New Zealand Herald
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand & Hon David Parker, Minister for Trade and Export Growth
Foreign Minister Winston Peters, speaking to a transtasman Business Circle briefing yesterday, said that while progress had been positive to date, he accepted it wasn't quite there yet. "Truthfully, we couldn't get it up and running tomorrow. But if we are going to have biosecurity standards and transportation protocols they need to be identical between the two countries."

Telstra to keep call centres in Australia even after COVID-19 passes

9 July 2020 / Supratim Adhikari / Sydney Morning Herald
Andrew Penn, CEO & Managing Director, Telstra
Telstra boss Andrew Penn said on Thursday that the loss of the overseas centres had forced the telco to review how to best tackle customer complaints and the changes instituted at the start of the pandemic will now stay in place. “While we have managed to move a large amount of this work online and to Australia, we are very conscious of the impact it has had and is still having on some of our customers in trying to contact us,” he said at a Trans Tasman Business Circle event.

Telstra boss Andrew Penn calls out lack of carbon offset projects

9 July 2020 / John Durie / The Australian Business Review
Andrew Penn, CEO & Managing Director, Telstra
“Our experience has been that it is extremely difficult to purchase carbon offsets from projects located in Australia. This is something that needs to be addressed because what it says is that there are not enough projects contributing to a reduction in greenhouse emissions,” he told a Trans Tasman Business circle event on Thursday.

Vodafone NZ committed to 5G, 'internet of things' future

26 May 2020 / Brent Melville / Business Desk
Jason Paris, Chief Executive Officer, Vodafone New Zealand
He told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle video conference yesterday that because data usage was up overall that didn't mean telcos were making more money. "Our roaming revenue stopped overnight during shutdown. People are using wifi at home and more people using more data means we have to upgrade our services, with the extra cost of doing that."

Responsible business in the 2020s, and reflecting on our journey through COVID-19

9 July 2020 / Andrew Penn / Telstra
Andrew Penn, CEO & Managing Director, Telstra
At a speech to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Telstra CEO Andy Penn spoke about the importance of responsible business, and how now is the time to think deeply about the role business has in society. Thank you for that warm welcome and hello everyone. Before I start, I would like to acknowledge Tanya Oziel from the Trans-Tasman Business Circle. Thank you for being our virtual host today. For many years the Business Circle has been an important forum for the exchange of ideas on key issues for our country, for our region and also for our future. That dialogue has never been more important than it is today.

Telstra to have Australian agents answer all inbound calls from 2022

9 July 2020 / Ry Crozier / it news
Andrew Penn, CEO & Managing Director, Telstra
CEO Andy Penn told a Trans Tasman Business Circle event Thursday that operations in India and the Philippines are “still not fully recovered”. But more importantly for Telstra, and for its offshore operations, it now expects some of the changes made during COVID to become permanent, instead of being a stopgap while waiting for capacity to recover.

Wesfarmers chief Rob Scott warns on supply chains

24 May 2020 / Eli Greenblat / The Australian Business Review
Rob Scott, Chief Executive Officer, Wesfarmers
Speaking to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Mr Scott also raised the spectre of a possible brain drain of skilled workers and jobs to overseas businesses in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic as many companies consider the next logical step of those jobs — reliably connected via the phone and the internet — going offshore.

Covid 19 coronavirus: Counting the cost of quarantine

12 June 2020 / Victoria Young / Business Desk
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Deputy Prime Minister, New Zealand & Hon David Parker, Minister for Trade and Export Growth
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman Wayne Byres will address the Trans-Tasman Business Circle on July 22, by which time the regulator will have received extensive data from three-month check-ins by the industry on customers who deferred their loans last March.

Coronavirus pandemic: ‘New normal’ still a year away: business leaders

27 May 2020 / Damon Kitney / The Australian
Johnny Weiss, Founder & Managing Director, Trans - Tasman Business Circle
Trans-Tasman Business Circle founder Johnny Weiss, who established the forum in 1993 with Sir Ron Brierley as the inaugural presenter, said the Circle had rapidly pivoted from a physical human connectivity organisation to one with virtual connectivity within seven days in late March as the crisis took hold.

No ‘health passport’ likely for trans-Tasman travel bubble, Ak Airport chief says

27 May 2020 / Calida Stuart-Menteath / New Zealand Business Review
Adrian Littlewood, Chief Executive, Auckland Airport & Ann Sherry AO, Co-Chair, ANZLF
Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood, who is part of the group, told a trans-Tasman Business Circle webinar today that while travellers would likely need to sign to verify their health, they would not need a "health passport" which relied on testing at both borders.

Job ads recover as lockdown lifts: Bassat

7 May 2020 / Damon Kitney / The Australian Business Review
Andrew Bassat, Chief Executive Officer, SEEK
He said the worst-hit sectors such as tourism were off by 95 per cent, while sectors such as mining and insurance were off by 35 per cent or less. Employers were also closely guarding technology roles. “You are starting to see ad volumes creep up 1-2 per cent a day as people are talking about restrictions coming off,’’ he told the Trans-Tasman Business Circle.

Wage subsidy decision expected at upcoming Z Energy results

7 May 2020 / Reweti Kohere / New Zealand Business Review
Mike Bennetts, Chief Executive Officer, Z-Energy
A spokesperson for the listed fuel retailer said it would be in a position to inform the market about the decision when it releases its results for the year to March before May 28. But the spokesperson didn’t confirm whether a decision had been made this week, as chief executive Mike Bennetts indicated in a Trans-Tasman Business Circle seminar last week, or what may have been decided.

Pandemic pivots: The best of NZ business showing resilience in the face of adversity

28 April 2020 / Tim McCready / The Spinoff
Adrian Orr, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Antonia Watson, Chief Executive Officer - New Zealand, ANZ, Mayor Phil Goff CNZM and Patricia Reade, Director of People & Performance (HR), Auckland Council
My favourite has been a series being run by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, which has attracted fantastic speakers to discuss “resilient leadership in challenging times”, ranging from ANZ’s Antonia Watson to the Reserve Bank’s Adrian Orr and Auckland mayor Phil Goff.

Coronavirus: Budget 2020 may be time to look beyond Covid-19 'relief' and towards recovery

26 April 2020 / Tom Pullar-Strecker / Stuff
Adrian Orr, Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
A third question facing Robertson is what, if anything much, to say in the Budget about how increased government spending will be paid for. Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr surprised some in the financial community when he told an online meeting hosted by the Trans Tasman Business Circle on Tuesday that he was "open-minded" about the central bank "directly monetising" government debt.

Fonterra chooses to stay at COVID-19 alert level 4

22 April 2020 / Angie Skerrett / msn
Miles Hurrell, Chief Executive Officer, Fonterra
Speaking in a business webinar on Monday, Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell said it made the decision to keep level 4 restrictions in place prior to the announcement. "We have already gone out to our farmers and staff and said irrespective of the decision we will remain under a level 4 scenario within Fonterra," Hurrell told The Trans-Tasman Business Circle webinar. "We just can't afford the risk of any disruption to our supply chains," he said. No decision had been made on when restrictions would be eased. "We said we will stay with level 4 for quite some time and that has been well received."

Past pain prepared Fonterra for pandemic

20 April 2020 / Tim Hunter / New Zealand Business Review
Miles Hurrell, Chief Executive Officer, Fonterra
While there had been one or two cases from people who had been overseas on holiday, “the fact they were nowhere near a factory or an office put us in really good shape.” Speaking by video conference to the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Hurrell said the co-op was well aware of the risks posed by the pandemic. “The Fonterra cluster would have been a great headline,” he said.

Coronavirus: Fonterra won't move to level 3

20 April 2020 / Esther Taunton / Stuff
Miles Hurrell, Chief Executive Officer, Fonterra
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce on Monday afternoon if the country's coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be relaxed. On Thursday, she outlined what the lower level might look like, saying industries like construction and forestry would be able to restart and businesses able to operate safely could do so. At an online Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on Monday, Hurrell said even if the rest of the country moved to level 3, the dairy co-op would remain at level 4.

Sir John Key: Coronavirus like 'GFC cubed' but there is light ahead

3 April 2020 / Susan Edmunds / Stuff
Nikesh Arora, Global Chief Executive Officer and Rt Hon Sir John Key, Director, Palo Alto Networks
Covid-19 disruption is on a scale no one has ever seen before, former prime minister Sir John Key says, but it should be remembered that there is "a light at the end of the tunnel". Key spoke at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle virtual event on Friday with Nikesh Arora, chief executive of Palo Alto Networks. Key is a director of that business.

Supermarket boss hits back: 'We are not profiteering'

30 March 2020 / Maria Slade / New Zealand Business Review
Chris Quin, Chief Executive Officer, Foodstuffs North Island Limited
The coronavirus restrictions give the two major supermarket chains, Foodstuffs and Countdown, a monopoly on sales of groceries, but Quin said his group had not even had its first month of accounts to know what the impact has been. “Somewhere in among all this the cost picture will become clear,” he told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle online seminar today. “What I do know is we’ve paid more overtime than I’ve ever seen in the business, and we’ve hired 1000 people to keep up.

PM sets up website for Kiwis to dob in coronavirus lockdown price gouging

30 March 2020 / Amelia Wade / NZ Herald
Chris Quin, Chief Executive Officer, Foodstuffs North Island Limited
Foodstuffs North Island chief executive Chris Quin earlier today said he was concerned supermarkets will catch undeserved scrutiny as the government places a close eye on food pricing while the four-week lockdown is in place. In an online seminar hosted by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, Quin said the perception the company was hiking prices was untrue.

Banks warn against 'knee-jerk' responses to Hayne

30 January 2020 / James Eyers / Australian Financial Review
Matt Comyn, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Chairman, Australian Banking Association George Frazis, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, BOQ The. Hon Anna Bligh AC, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Banking Association Fiona Guthrie AM, Chief Executive, Financial Counselling Australia, Moderated by Ross Greenwood, Business and Finance Editor, 9 News
"It is about making sure we have the right balance in terms of how the government and regulators act and how we act, to ensure number one we are protecting, but also to ensure we are providing the engine in terms of economic growth," Bank of Queensland chief executive George Frazis told the Trans-Tasman Business Circle event on Thursday, ahead of the first anniversary next week of the Hayne report being delivered.

CBA chief executive checking on neobanks

30 January 2020 / Derek Rose / 7News
Matt Comyn, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Chairman, Australian Banking Association George Frazis, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, BOQ The. Hon Anna Bligh AC, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Banking Association Fiona Guthrie AM, Chief Executive, Financial Counselling Australia, Moderated by Ross Greenwood, Business and Finance Editor, 9 News
"I wanted to test out what the application process was like, what we're doing, what they're offering," Mr Comyn told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle luncheon meeting on Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the financial services royal commission.

CBD Melbourne: Troubled Waters But Cruise Talk Sails On

24 March 2020 / Samantha Hutchinson and Kylar Loussikian / The Age
Ann Sherry AO, Chief Executive Officer, Carnival Australia
Sherry’s talk was sent out to Trans-Tasman members on Tuesday as part of a memo advising that all such events in the coming months would be moving online, for understandable reasons “Date to be confirmed,” also for understandable reasons. Sherry, meanwhile, was meant to lead a study tour being organised by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle to Tel Aviv in early November. That may also need to be postponed.

2019 Media

Financial-services firms face “constructively tough” crackdown after breaches from “basic cyber hygiene” deficiencies: APRA

11 November 2019 / David Braue / CSO Online
Speakers: Adi Ashkenazy, Chief Executive, Skylight Cyber Stuart Mort, Chief Technology Officer – Cyber Security, Optus, Jill Slay, Optus Chair of Cyber Security, La Trobe University, Geoff Summerhayes, Executive Board Member, APRA
CyBSA 2019 Cyber Breach Simulation Australia event co-organised by Optus Macquarie University Cyber Hub and the Trans-Tasman Business Circle.

APRA Member Geoff Summerhayes - Speech to CyBSA 2019 Cyber Breach Simulation Australia

7 November 2019 / Geoff Summerhayes / APRA
Speakers: Adi Ashkenazy, Chief Executive, Skylight Cyber Stuart Mort, Chief Technology Officer – Cyber Security, Optus, Jill Slay, Optus Chair of Cyber Security, La Trobe University, Geoff Summerhayes, Executive Board Member, APRA
I’d like to start by congratulating the Trans-Tasman Business Circle and the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub for organising today’s event, which I believe is one of the first of its kind in Australia.

Tech for good in focus

29 October 2019 / Penelope Green / Newcastle Herald
Speakers: Pip Marlow, Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, Samantha Martin-Williams, Non-Executive Director, Newcastle Permanent Building Society, Catriona Noble, Managing Director Retail Distribution Australia, ANZ Banking Group Limited, Dayle Stevens, Chief Data Officer, AGL Energy Limited
The first Australian Women Leaders Study Tour to San Francisco and Silicon Valley was arranged by the Trans-Tasman Business Circle, a strategic growth partner for the region's leading public and private sector organisations.

Lean In To The Change, Salesforce ANZ CEO Pip Marlow Tells Australian Business Leaders

29 October 2019 / Joseph Brookes / WHICH-50
Speakers: Pip Marlow, Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, Samantha Martin-Williams, Non-Executive Director, Newcastle Permanent Building Society, Catriona Noble, Managing Director Retail Distribution Australia, ANZ Banking Group Limited, Dayle Stevens, Chief Data Officer, AGL Energy Limited
Speaking at a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event for Australian women business leaders in Sydney the new Salesforce chief said technology like artificial intelligence will have a dramatic affect but it should not be feared.

Executive panel: Culture, human skills drive tech innovation for good

29 October 2019 / Nadia Cameron / CMO
Speakers: Pip Marlow, Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, Samantha Martin-Williams, Non-Executive Director, Newcastle Permanent Building Society, Catriona Noble, Managing Director Retail Distribution Australia, ANZ Banking Group Limited, Dayle Stevens, Chief Data Officer, AGL Energy Limited
That was the consensus of four leading female executives speaking on a panel at today’s Trans-Tasman Business Circle event, Tech for Good.

Behind CBA's $100 million bet on Klarna - Sweden's answer to Afterpay

17 August 2019 / Colin Kruger / The Sydney Morning Herald
Matt Comyn, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Bank
When Comyn spoke at the Trans-Tasman business circle event CBA was already deep in negotiations over an investment into Klarna, a Swedish based fintech that has made serious inroads in the US market, and which launched an instalments payment service about a decade before Afterpay did.

Westpac chief urges governments to dump stamp duty to help housing

30 July 2019 / Clancy Yeates / The Sydney Morning Herald
Brian Hartzer, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Westpac
"The big upfront cost of buying a home – particularly stamp duty – is both a barrier for buyers and a disincentive for people to sell a home that’s bigger than they need (since they would then incur their own stamp duty when they move)," Mr Hartzer said at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle lunch.

Why we’re challenging the system for equality in sport

20 May 2019 / Rachel Froggat, EO Woman in Sport Aotearoa (WISPA) / Lockerroom
Speakers: Hon Grant Robertson, Minister for Sport and Recreation, New Zealand Government, Rt Hon Helen Clark ONZ, IWG Global Patron, Dr Farah Palmer, Board Director, Sport New Zealand / New Zealand Rugby & Scott Bartlett, Chief Executive Officer, Kordia
"Women in Sport Aotearoa recently held the inaugural IWG Captain’s Lunch for sport and business leaders, with the Trans–Tasman Business Circle".

State of the (Digital) Nation: Why filling the skills gap is everyone’s business

01 April 2019 / CIO New Zealand
Speakers: Hon Dr Megan Woods, Minister of Government Digital Services, NZ Government, Tim Occleshaw, Deputy Government Chief Digital Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Russell Craig, National Technology Officer, Microsoft New Zealand, Megan Firkin, General Manager Digital and Optimisation, Callaghan Innovation & Matthew Wright, General Manager Digital Technology, Kotahi Logistics LP Ltd
"It was heartening that so many senior representatives from New Zealand’s public sector, businesses and NGOs came together at the AI event we hosted with the Trans Tasman Business Circle in March, to discuss the barriers and opportunities offered by AI".