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Strong quarter for CBA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... adequacy ratio stood at 9.6%, up 37 basis points from December 2016. APRA requires banks and authorised deposit-taking institutions maintain a certain amount of capital at all times. A 2016 APRA study found the major banks had a weighted average capital ...

From financial advisers to cybersecurity advocates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... engineering, cybercrime has become a lucrative market targeting the 'digital' assets of mom-and-dad investors and the big institutions. Worse, cybercriminals are very hard to trace. In the US, law enforcement have only convicted less than 2% of cybercrime ...

Fund managers on fixed income recruitment drive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... position would involve providing "ongoing coverage of a portfolio largely consisting of major Australian financial institutions and ASX top 50 corporates through detailed monitoring, research and analysis." The investment risk manager - fixed income ...

EQT appoints former Deutsche Bank VP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... Sydney office as senior manager, structured finance - corporate trusts. Connell has held senior roles with a number of institutions including BNY Mellon, Deloitte and Australian Executor Trustees. He was most recently Deutsche Bank vice president, transaction ...

Banks can offer fintech an olive branch

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
Financial technology upstarts promise to reinvent financial services, yet large institutions are accused of hindering progress. In an email blast to thousands of customers last year, Commonwealth Bank warned the use of certain fintech services could ...

ESG adoption grows, returns follow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... strategy can produce significantly improved returns and assist in the management of volatility. A global survey of 475 institutions conducted by State Street Global Advisors shows asset owners from Asia Pacific are integrating ESG strategies to enhance ...

Unconscionable super cross-selling will continue: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... banking and the financial services sector so Australians can be confident that when they interact with financial institutions they won't be exploited," she said.

Open data carries privacy risk: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... trust, she said, noting that fintechs in particular don't have the massive balance sheets or the backing of major institutions and can't afford to "stuff up" customers' data. If there are companies that are mindful of breaches or issues in this space ...

ClearView slams APL standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... a superficial document that will fail to stamp out anti-competitive practices by the large vertically-integrated institutions and therefore won't lead to profound, lasting change and a better deal for consumers," he said. "Open APLs are essential if ...

Japan to drive real assets globally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
... afforded by real asset investment would prove beneficial for Japan's corporate pensions, public pensions and financial institutions that are almost all designed as defined benefit schemes. Likewise, infrastructure debt is likely to benefit as the appetite ...