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Westpac shuffles executives

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... plan to reduce costs by $8 billion by 2024. A broader restructure will see support services (including human resources, finance, and technology) moved to the businesses and customers they support, creating two shared service areas to achieve benefits ...

Education reforms are promising: SAFAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... lengthy lists of specific degrees. As a recommendation, advisers can satisfy the qualifications by completing courses in finance, financial services, investments, stockbroking, wealth management, business law and so forth. "This is a break from the previous ...

Conscious IM appoints investment director

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... saw the acquisition of hundreds of social and affordable housing units in Melbourne. The investment will see Conscious finance the acquisition of up to 307 newly built one-and two-bedroom apartments around Melbourne. The Conscious IM Impact Fund is the ...

Frontier recruits two senior consultants

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
... senior consultant in the alternatives and derivatives research team. Swaak was most recently a director of quantitative finance solutions at Deloitte and worked for the likes of QIC, Macquarie and SJS Family Office. Former United Nations PRI chief executive ...

HSBC receives ESG accolades, criticism on same day

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
Within 24 hours, HSBC received a glowing report on its ESG credentials and withering criticism that it "trashed" its own carbon pledge with a Saudi Aramco deal. S&P released its ESG ratings for $3 trillion financial institution HSBC, scoring the company ...

Crescent Group appoints head of risk

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... services experience, including leading credit teams at Pepper Group, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and GE Capital Finance, and risk and compliance operations at several start-ups including Nano Lending and Xinja Bank. Crescent Group's group executive ...

Federal Reserve mulls central bank digital currency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
... "Other key policy considerations include how to preserve the privacy of citizens and maintain the ability to combat illicit finance. The paper discusses these and other factors in more detail." Potential benefits of a CBDC covered in the paper include ...

New board director for Morrison & Co

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Morrison & Co has appointed corporate finance and infrastructure expert Kate Mingay as a non-executive director, effective immediately. Mingay brings three decades of extensive commercial and regulatory experience, having worked across the private and ...

Cbus adds to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
... Beveridge joined the board last December to replace Anthony McDonald. She also takes over as chair of the Cbus audit and finance committee. Beveridge was an independent director of REI Super from 2017 to 2021, of which the last two years she served as ...

Insto investors tempted by crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... and its positive impact on liquidity, improving regulation, increased options and the overall growth of decentralised finance. "Many cryptocurrencies have performed well since the coronavirus crisis started. From 1 January 2020, the value of Bitcoin ...