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NAB quiet on AMP plans

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2003
... National Australia Bank Ltd chief executive Frank Cicutto was keeping his plans for potential takeover target AMP Ltd a secret today, refusing to reveal to New York fund managers and the media his bank's next move. Mr Cicutto re-confirmed NAB was not ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

Next week's meeting of heads of states and ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, will focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 ...

Rei Super reappoints InTech as its implemented consultant

After moving to implemented consulting arrangements three years ago, the $300 million Rei Super Fund has re-appointed InTech as its implemented consultant. Rei Super is the industry superannuation fund for the property services sector. Under the arrangements ...

Labor proposes stronger corporate disclosure measures

Senator Stephen Conroy, the deputy opposition leader in the senate and the shadow minister for financial services and corporate governance, has said that the self-regulatory approach of the Government is incapable of tackling unbridled corporate greed ...

Senator Campbell denounces FSR licence scare tactics

Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Senator Ian Campbell has accused some lawyers and consultants of using scare tactics and charging companies exorbitant fees to complete financial services licence applications ahead of next year's March 11 deadline. ...

Finance Sector Union slams CBA's decision to cut 3,700 jobs

The Finance Sector Union (FSU) has today condemned the Commonwealth Bank's announcement today that it would slash 3,700 jobs over the next three years. "There's no way you can take that amount of people out of an organization and not have an impact ...

Commonwealth ministers meet in Brunei, focus on poverty

Commonwealth finance ministers in their annual meeting, which began in Brunei's capital Bandar Seri Begawan today, said that the failure of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Cancun cast a shadow on their Brunei gathering. Don McKinnon, the ...

Senator Campbell calls for single Asia-Pacific finance market

The formation of a single Asia Pacific finance market was one of the next major steps in globalisation of financial services, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Senator Ian Campbell has announced. He said Australia would benefit greatly from ...

Federal Government welcomes ASIC investment banking report

The Federal Government has welcomed the release of a report by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into the independence of research analysts in the investment banking industry. "The review will be a very valuable contribution ...

Trans-Tasman tax changes implemented under CER agreement

Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, has committed the government to trans-Tasman triangular tax reform, exchanging formal letters with Jim Anderton, the New Zealand Minister for Economic Development. Triangular taxation ...