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Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Two leading technology providers, Yieldbroker and Omgeo, have joined forces to offer a fixed income processing platform designed to eliminate manual errors and reduce post-trade operational risks. Electronic trading platform Yieldbroker, which counts ...

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
The $63 billion Future Fund's overweight allocation to cash has paid off in the first quarter of this year - losing a mere 1.81 per cent when many funds suffered double-digit losses over the same period. This result, combined with the 2007/08 year ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
The Australian stock market was down about three per cent at noon after National Australia Bank (NAB) reported further losses related to its exposure to complex US mortgage-backed debt securities. The local bourse was also following Wall Street, which ...

Barclays emits carbon trading ETN

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Barclays Bank PLC launched the iPath Global Carbon Exchange Traded Note (ETN) on the NYSE Arca stock exchange to provide investors with exposure to greenhouse gas emission trading schemes. The iPath ETN is linked to Barclay's Capital Global Carbon Index ...

Syndicated loan market contracts by half

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Syndicated lending by Australian banks fell by around half during the March 2008 quarter, in one measure of the restricted availability of corporate credit since the global credit crunch emerged in mid 2007. The Bank for International Settlements estimated ...

JPMorgan joins debt platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
JPMorgan joins top financial institutions ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Citi, and Macquarie Bank on the Yieldbroker online debt trading platform. Yieldbroker is a cooperatively owned venture between members that allows institutional investors to view up ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Slowing world growth, a collapsing US dollar and a still very nervous global credit market won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural ...

Securitised assets get RAMmed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
Just as RAMS Home Loans Group chairman announced the home lender was no longer a going concern, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released new figures confirming that securitised asset levels in Australia are contracting on the back of the ...

Australia is Asia's biggest investment market

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
As Australia re-launches its financial services export drive, it's worth reminding ourselves where we sit in the world's pecking order. With this in mind, the latest Benchmark Report from InvestAustralia makes for very encouraging reading notwithstanding ...

Sub-primes breach Macquarie Fortress

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
Macquarie Fortress Investments, an ASX-listed investor in senior debt securities of US companies, said the value of its loan portfolio fell by 4 per cent during July from June. While Fortress invests in senior debt only, the rise in credit spreads has ...