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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
NZ to require home buyers to have 40% deposit In response to surging New Zealand property prices, NZ banks have tightened the screws on buyers by decreasing the maximum loan-to-valuation ratios. Industry regulations require buyers to have 30% deposit ...

Rubik signs with Pakistan bank

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
Rubik Financial signed its fifth Pakistan bank to collections platform CWX this week and will partner with fellow software firm Temenos to implement the project. The agreement with Bank Alfalah will see Rubik's CWX integrate with Temenos' T24 product ...

Saudi sovereign wealth fund flags US$3.5bn Uber investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, has invested US$3.5 billion ($4.8 billion) in ride sharing app Uber. The company will use some of the money, likely in the region of US$250 million, to help it expand in the Middle East. ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... shifting demographic landscape, as well as its ability to attract investment. RBC describes countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Malaysia, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia - which score well on both fronts - as "demographic darlings" while those ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
Another Monday, another sell, sell day. This time the media - social or otherwise - are calling the sharp drop in the Australian equities market yesterday a "Horror Monday". It wasn't as bloody as that "Bloody Monday", 24 August, when the benchmark ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... December 2011, the economies of the United States, China and emerging markets were expanding, commodity prices were rising, the "Arab Spring" of the first quarter of 2011 has calmed and so did anxieties regarding the devastating effects of the tsunami/nuclear ...

Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
HSBC said Australia is a priority market, but has not confirmed if the decision to cut 25,000 jobs globally will affect the business down under. The group confirmed that it wants to reduce its risk weighted assets by 25%. To achieve that, it will sell ...

Universities at fossil fuel divestment frontlines

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
The University of Oxford has announced it will cease any future investments in coal and tar sands. Although the university said it will not divest from all fossil fuels, it's the latest in a group of academic institutions - including New Zealand's Victoria ...