Mohan new Pacific CEO at ANZ Vishnu Mohan, ANZ’s former CEO PNG & Pacific North West Region, who relocated to Fiji earlier this year, is now head of the bank’s Pacific operations, which span 12 countries. ANZ announced in late October that Mohan would take over as CEO Pacific from 1 November 2012, in addition […]
Perspectives on Papua New Guinea
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Business leaders provide their own take on opportunities in PNG’s economy. Greg Pawson, General Manager Pacific Banking, Westpac ‘Papua New Guinea is a very important market for us. We employ more than 400 staff across our PNG business. We have sixteen branches and we’re expanding, with new business centres in Lae and Port Moresby. We’re about to relocate our main […]
PNG spearheads regional growth
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Papua New Guinea is expected to remain the standout economy in the Pacific over the coming year, with its success having a knock-on effect on neighbouring Solomon Islands. Business Advantage summarises the outlook for the region’s larger economies. Unsurprisingly, the region’s fastest-growing economies are those whose economies are based around exporting natural resources, especially to Asia. ‘In Papua New Guinea […]
Reaching out to the unbanked
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Papua New Guinea’s strong financial services sector is becoming ever more sophisticated in servicing both the mass-market and premium ends of the market. ‘PNG continues to have a very, very strong banking sector. We are very lucky here to have the banks that we do. Investors want that, and they often don’t expect that there’s […]
Papua New Guinea’s capital markets
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After strong performances in 2009 and 2010, the Port Moresby Stock Exchange (POMSoX) experienced a tough 2011, as did many bourses around the world. The Kina Securities Index, which measures the health of PNG’s stock exchange, reported a 22.21% fall in 2011, but this fall should be seen in context. The region’s major exchanges—the Nikkei […]
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