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China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... 27.1 million tonnes imported in the previous month. Apart from the US, China also enjoys a trade surplus with the European Union (US$11.3 billion in October) and the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos ...

BOE does what it said it would do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... extent". For despite the UK central bank's optimism there's still Brexit uncertainty. "The decision to leave the European Union is having a noticeable impact on the economic outlook... Uncertainties associated with Brexit are weighing on domestic activity ...

Government opens doors to offshore investment vehicles

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... exposure draft put it, "advance the more general objective of global regulatory alignment." Comparing the CCIV to the European Union's Undertakings for Collective Investment In Transferable Securities (UCITS) directive, the draft legislation said: "CCIVs ...

Brexit endangers EU asset manager passport

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
Australian financial services companies relying on regional headquarters in London to access the European Union - essentially 28 countries - hangs in the balance once Brexit is finalised. Statistics from the Financial Conduct Authority show about 5500 ...

EU markets directive to reshape global alternatives

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
Half of alternative asset managers with offices outside the European Union will apply the EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) policies globally - for those firms delegating portfolio management to a third country, this figure ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... prospects are further enhanced by the increased prospect of a "soft Brexit" - where the country would remain in the European Union's (EU) single market and customs union. As Bloomberg put it, "May wouldn't have enough votes in Parliament to support her ...

Liquidnet acquires global tech firm

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
Institutional dark pool network Liquidnet is preparing for changes to European Union markets regulation through the acquisition of a global provider of equity analytics. OTAS Technologies, established in 2011, currently provides equity market analytics ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... are also "conditioned on the assumptions that the adjustment to the United Kingdom's new relationship with the European Union is smooth". It better be for the BOE has reportedly no "Plan B" for Brexit. Perhaps Gov Carney hasn't heard of Mr. Murphy's ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... other hand, a Le Pen victory would introduce fresh uncertainty, not only for France but on the Eurozone and the European Union as a whole - i.e., Frexit and its contagion effects. Volatility here come. Just as Napoleon Bonaparte quipped, "The most dangerous ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations that will see the United Kingdom (UK) withdraw from the ...