Business
How the ‘great bond massacre’ lit the finance spark for Westpac’s new treasurer – Sydney Morning Herald
Joanne Dawson was 18 and working as a junior at Bankers Trust when the bonds market crisis hit in 1994. Westpac’s newly appointed treasurer hasn’t looked back s…
“Id worked in a very junior role and that was where I really saw financial markets and what they were and what they did. That was probably the spark that interested me in following that as part of my career,” Dawson says in her first interview as treasurer with The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
As group treasurer, she is responsible for keeping the bank afloat, a powerful but little-understood role, never more important than during times of crisis such as the COVID-19 induced recession.
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