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    Quote Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob View Post
    $450k a year in expenses! Holy S**t! Time for the real story to come out and why does he not have to pay any of it back?! WOW!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RupertBear View Post
    $450k a year in expenses! Holy S**t! Time for the real story to come out and why does he not have to pay any of it back?! WOW!
    Over $1,200 per day. Wonder how long that was going on for....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob View Post
    Over $1,200 per day. Wonder how long that was going on for....
    Apparently it was A$357000 in 2011 (expenses, this is ...) and it must have stayed on that level (or slightly grown).

    More concerning than the greediness of the CEO is that ANZ does not seem to have systems to catch such wrong doing of their executives. Well, one could obviously argue - 8 years and roughly 3.2 million dollars later (extrapolating the stated expenses from 2011 and 2018) they noticed ... but still - are they the right bank we should trust to look after our money?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BlackPeter View Post
    Apparently it was A$357000 in 2011 (expenses, this is ...) and it must have stayed on that level (or slightly grown).

    More concerning than the greediness of the CEO is that ANZ does not seem to have systems to catch such wrong doing of their executives. Well, one could obviously argue - 8 years and roughly 3.2 million dollars later (extrapolating the stated expenses from 2011 and 2018) they noticed ... but still - are they the right bank we should trust to look after our money?
    It’s really quite sad. It’s not as tho he was poorly paid. We can do with out that kind of greed in our top company executives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RTM View Post
    It’s really quite sad. It’s not as tho he was poorly paid. We can do with out that kind of greed in our top company executives.
    Put two & two together getting five, he was the highest sign-off authority for NZ expenses, so above the law, and had a 'verbal agreement' with the Aus bank boss, so he felt that he was protected from the protocols of 'actual and reasonable expenses' like every other corporate executive. And that was condoned for years by the Board.

    It's been brushed over by the Board and diluted and opaque in statutory shareholder reporting for donkeys years so they've been covering him, but it fell apart only recently. So that's not the real reason he's been shafted, something else must've happened.

    Oh, yes the bank has serially under reported risk exposure, for many years. Now that's the CEO's problem, not the Board but it's embarrassing, especially when currently fighting the RBNZ about risk coverage (and a backdrop of the Aus malfeasance reports).

    It's probably something like this .. "Sorry Mr Hisco, despite having covered your butt for many years on expenses, you've embarrassed the bank with these revelations about risk exposure which is going to cost us (and the shareholders) a fortune to make right, so in order to save the Boards' arse and the banks reputation, we suggest you take a years salary, forfeit your options and resign. We'll look after it from here. All good with that?"

    Hey John, go fix this mess with the media and for god's sakes don't let it get out of control with the media. Please make sure you deflect to Mr Hisco's misgivings and keep the bank's risk coverage and war with the RBNZ off the radar. There's a good chap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baa_Baa View Post
    Put two & two together getting five, he was the highest sign-off authority for NZ expenses, so above the law, and had a 'verbal agreement' with the Aus bank boss, so he felt that he was protected from the protocols of 'actual and reasonable expenses' like every other corporate executive. And that was condoned for years by the Board.

    It's been brushed over by the Board and diluted and opaque in statutory shareholder reporting for donkeys years so they've been covering him, but it fell apart only recently. So that's not the real reason he's been shafted, something else must've happened.
    This is a ridiculous situation, I thought governance 101 was that the Board needed to keep their eye on the CEO's expense claims. This is almost by definition because no one else can really wield authority over the CE. Yes a complicating factor is that there is a group CEO and a NZ CEO. However the NZ board should have their eye on the ball with regard to their CEO, surely?

    Quote Originally Posted by Baa_Baa View Post
    Oh, yes the bank has serially under reported risk exposure, for many years. Now that's the CEO's problem, not the Board but it's embarrassing, especially when currently fighting the RBNZ about risk coverage (and a backdrop of the Aus malfeasance reports).
    Again back to governance 101 - Boards need to implement risk reporting and management protocols and ensure they are followed. That's a massive part of their oversight function. For a bank capital adequacy is a huge source of risk - there's no way on earth the board should be just delegating everything to the CEO and assuming he has it under control. They need to be aware of the risk exposure and be sure it's being calculated correctly. In listed firms I've worked at, for example, the risk officers (at the request of the board's risk committee) are normally required to get external risk audits performed and demonstrate compliance with these risk policies. The relevant risks differ from business to business, but the idea is that there is a risk register that the board is across and they ensure that these risks are managed, with the big hairy ones getting regular board airtime.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Airw0lf View Post
    This is a ridiculous situation, I thought governance 101 was that the Board needed to keep their eye on the CEO's expense claims. This is almost by definition because no one else can really wield authority over the CE. Yes a complicating factor is that there is a group CEO and a NZ CEO. However the NZ board should have their eye on the ball with regard to their CEO, surely?



    Again back to governance 101 - Boards need to implement risk reporting and management protocols and ensure they are followed. That's a massive part of their oversight function. For a bank capital adequacy is a huge source of risk - there's no way on earth the board should be just delegating everything to the CEO and assuming he has it under control. They need to be aware of the risk exposure and be sure it's being calculated correctly. In listed firms I've worked at, for example, the risk officers (at the request of the board's risk committee) are normally required to get external risk audits performed and demonstrate compliance with these risk policies. The relevant risks differ from business to business, but the idea is that there is a risk register that the board is across and they ensure that these risks are managed, with the big hairy ones getting regular board airtime.

    They would have know, just time to use it...

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    Obviously dodgy as the ANZ ....but probably most banks are anyway

    Managed to keep a lot of things out of the public / shareholders eyes eh

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12243118
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    Quote Originally Posted by winner69 View Post
    Obviously dodgy as the ANZ ....but probably most banks are anyway

    Managed to keep a lot of things out of the public / shareholders eyes eh

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12243118
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