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What the 2017 Budget means for you

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... will scrutinise and explore the government's infrastructure spending regime, which includes $75 billion in infrastructure funding and financing over the next 10 years. As revealed prior to Budget night, the government will spend $17 million over four ...

Government fintech agenda spotlights microbanking

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... example, will no longer be subject to the GST, which removes the "double taxation" on said purchases. Crowdsourced equity funding (CSEF) will also receive a boost, providing additional sources of capital to newer companies who will now be allowed an ...

Increased APRA levies provide regulator with more power

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... rules, they will also face bigger fines starting at $50 million for small banks and $200 million for large banks." The funding will be offset by increasing the APRA Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies of $4.2 million, which will be increased by ...

Infrastructure receives $75 billion boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... The Federal Government is looking to the private sector to help deliver "more innovative ways" to boost infrastructure funding. Delivering the 2017 Federal Budget, Treasurer Scott Morrison said the Government is expanding into equity and debt financing ...

Treasurer launches new financial system inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... settings and a free subsidy from taxpayers in the form of an implicit guarantee that significantly lowers their cost of funding," COBA chief executive Mark Degotardi said. Such problems can be addressed by the PC, as well as empower consumers to find ...

Government pushes ahead with new ASIC funding model

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... Services Kelly O'Dwyer said the model represents "the next step in meeting the Government's commitment to an industry funding model in place from 1 July 2017. Industry funding is a critical component of the Government's plan to improve consumer outcomes ...

ASIC signs fintech agreement with Indonesia

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... supporting services. Providers are offering services including insurance, investment, financing, peer-to-peer lending and crowd funding. ASIC Commissioner John Price commented that fintechs should not be constrained by national borders and that it is ...

Stone and Chalk lends voice to start-ups by women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... career change but when she did, she blew the lights out. Last October, she raised $3.5 million in an over-subscribed seed funding round - a record amount of funds raised at that point in a start-up's journey. "I have so much more confidence in my gut ...

Japan to drive real assets globally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... behaviour in a unique way, with its ¥500 trillion institutional investment market now expected to play a key role in funding the world's infrastructure and real estate. According to AMP Capital, the Japanese institutional investment environment is being ...

BlackRock's Fink commends Aussie infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink has praised Australia's use of private capital in funding infrastructure, and said the US needs to catch up. In his annual letter to shareholders, Fink said the United States trails behind countries ...