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ANZ sells mortgage business

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... sale. ANZ expects the effect on existing borrowers funded by Origin to be minimal. Columbus Capital is a diversified non-bank financial group focused on mortgage lending and funds management. Earlier in the week, ANZ announced that it had sold the remainder ...

Who you know overshadows rules: Freehills view on Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
Australian institutional investors eyeballing Asian investment opportunities need to understand not only their investment markets, but how different Asian business networks and regulatory systems are to Australian systems. Catching out novice Australian ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
You just gotta love the financial markets -- they don't run out of things to speculate about. With QE speculation over, the guessing game has shifted to whether or not QEs will work to bring back animal spirits and lead to a longer lasting and durable ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... Europe and Japan outweighed another round of weak economic data. Shares looked set for a positive end to a week that saw the Bank of Japan follow the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank (ECB) in unveiling plans to boost growth, but also showed ...

J.P. Morgan buys into BYOT

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
Investment bank J.P. Morgan has joined the ranks of retail banks and insurers in adopting a Bring-Your-Own-Technology model for staff. Unveiled as part of the firm's shift to its new Sydney headquarters, the program means IT staff will now support staff's ...

Outsourcing risk worries APRA

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... high severity system outages (from a technology risk perspective) had also reduced. APRA said that along with the Reserve Bank of Australia, it was coordinating efforts to promote greater resilience in ADIs' retail operations, including encouraging continued ...

A stock market rally could get Obama over the line

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... Stevenson said the level of Wall Street resources already dedicated to compliance makes reform more likely than repeal. Recent bank scandals mean that even the controversial Volcker Rule is likely to stay under a GOP government, although Romney would ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
With three of the world's biggest central banks - The Fed, the ECB and the BOJ - flooding the world with money, financial markets are still digesting what this all means. The "will they, won't they" do a QE question had been answered. They did. Now ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... manufacturing activity contracted again in September, adding to concerns about the economic giant, while enthusiasm waned over the Bank of Japan's economic stimulus package. Shanghai tumbled 2.08 per cent to close at 2,024.84 points - its lowest since ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... manufacturing activity contracted again in September, adding to concerns about the economic giant, while enthusiasm waned over the Bank of Japan's economic stimulus package. Shanghai tumbled 2.08 per cent to close at 2,024.84 points - its lowest since ...