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Andrew Cornell
Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

About Andrew Cornell

Andrew is an award winning journalist with more than three decades in the game. He was at the Australian Financial Review for 20 years where he was an associate editor, senior writer and columnist. Andrew started bluenotes and was the Managing Editor up and till July 2023.

Andrew is a former north Asia correspondent for the AFR and in the wake of the financial crisis was awarded a European Union grant to study the global response and new regulation. He has also been a restaurant reviewer and tries to play table tennis.

articles by Andrew Cornell

18 Jul 2023

Constantly building the bank of the future

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

How do you link a bank’s purpose, strategy and business model together when the landscape is changing so rapidly? Shayne Elliott and Antony Strong explain.

13 Jul 2023

Farewell to the Editor

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

This is my final column as managing editor of bluenotes. It has been an enormously fascinating experience and bluenotes will remain a great success, produced by a wonderful team. So keep reading, keep subscribing and thanks.

29 Jun 2023

Rates down, profits down? Not as such. Rates up, profits up…?

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

Market wisdom has it banks profit when interest rates rise. Is there more to this story than simply margin inflation?

15 Jun 2023

Fintechs: the meteor missed but left a tale…

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

In 2015 fintechs were tolling the doom of dinosaur banks. In 2022 their combined market value had halved. But they’re coming back – on the back of the dinosaurs.

01 Jun 2023

Banking: The known unknowns

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

We might have reached the summit of bank earnings and the way down is uncertain

18 May 2023

Banking Crises: size doesn’t matter

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

Maintaining a vigilant and adaptable regulatory framework is essential as we enter a world where bank runs can be nearly instantaneous and small banks can have big repercussions.

05 May 2023

Faruqui: balance and focus as a platform for growth

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

ANZ CFO Farhan Faruqui outlines what drove the financials and how diversification and consistency are now hallmarks of the bank’s performance and focus for the second half of the financial year.

05 May 2023

Elliott: a stellar result with all businesses performing strongly

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott says the “great” interim result is testimony to seven years of work on balancing and de-risking the bank by an experienced team.

19 Apr 2023

The end of the beginning of the crisis is coming

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

The storm clouds of the banking crisis are clearing but the forecast is hardly temperate

03 Apr 2023

All banks are local when they die

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

From tech-bros in Silicon Valley to vignerons of the Napa Valley, the great furling of easy cash is claiming surprising victims. Tighter credit conditions, weaker banks and economies are entwined.

27 Mar 2023

Elliott: understanding the new turmoil

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes

Global banking turmoil is not new, have we learned the lessons of the past? Andrew Cornell speaks with ANZ Chief Executive Shayne Elliott.

15 Mar 2023

When the liquidity tide goes out – gradually, then suddenly

Andrew Cornell | Past Managing Editor, bluenotes