NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK
National Australia Bank is one of the four largest financial institutions in Australia . In terms of market capitalisation , earnings and customers , NAB was ranked 21stlargest bank in the world by market capitalisation and 52nd-largest bank in the world according to total assets in 2019 .
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Leading from the top with Jacqueline Fox
General Manager , Capital Markets & Advisory , Corporate and Institutional Bank at National Australia Bank and runner-up Boss of the Year 2019 Jacqueline Fox is no stranger to leading great teams . Her remarkable relationship with her PA and passion for volunteer work is testament to that . Jacqueline has a wealth of experience under her belt and isn ’ t afraid to pass on this knowledge to her team to develop a truly inspiring workplace culture
Jacqueline ’ s journey to where she is now started right after university . Once Jacqueline completed a Bachelor of Business in Tasmania , she was able to secure a job on the “# mainland ” with Bendigo Bank — a building society at the time . There she had the pleasure of working within their treasury team and observing some exciting times , like when they acquired a banking license and developed their treasury function . While she was there , she had exposure to a type of funding and capital management tool — which was emerging in the financial markets in Australia — known as securitisation . Jacqueline ended up in a securitisation capital planning role with Bendigo Bank and through developing
Bendigo ’ s first securitisation program , she had exposure to Standard & Poor ’ s , who were rating these types of transactions and asked her to join them .
“ I really did enjoy a period of time of getting that exposure and meeting a lot of different types of entities in the market , engaging with CFOs and treasurers in terms of their funding activities predominantly using that tool in securitisation . As well in a period where there was criteria development and expansion of the market , so that was a great opportunity .”
During that time , Jacqueline rated National Australia Bank ’ s first RBS transaction , which lead to discussions about
22 Executive PA | Summer Issue 2021