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Default super should have base ESG standard: RIAA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) is calling for default superannuation investments to include a base level of environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. In its latest discussion paper RIAA has proposed MySuper products ...

Hedge funds under cost pressure from brokers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... wake of new regulations on banks and prime brokers, a new global survey of the industry by EY reveals. Regulations such as Basel III and Dodd-Frank have caused banks and their prime brokerage businesses to focus more closely on liquidity, balance sheet ...

APRA debates whether "to model or not to model"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015
... regulatory rulebook, which assumed the lowest common denominator in all firms." Noting the advent of internal models in the Basel framework in 1996 and then credit and operational risk models in Basel II, he said that up until the GFC, "models reigned ...

PIMCO launches bank capital fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... contingent convertible bonds (CoCos), including Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds, which are part of new capital requirements by Basel III. It has the flexibility to allocate across the capital structure, ranging from senior bonds and Tier 1 bonds to CoCos ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
If you think that the latest US non-farm payrolls report is good enough for the Fed to proceed with a September lift-off, you are correct. You are not wrong too if you think it's not strong enough for the Fed to pull the trigger in September. There's ...

Banks need to increase capital ratios: APRA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... standards will require further consideration by APRA, taking into account the results of this study, changes arising from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's current review of the global capital adequacy framework, and the extent of further ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... regulation that poses the greatest challenge for the coming year. FoFA was listed along major regulatory changes such as the Basel III rules that will require banks to hold more capital, or the Volcker Rule in the United States that limits the bank's ...

Bendigo lifts half-year cash earnings by 10.9%

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... which the bank is operating," said BEN managing director Mike Hirst. "We've strengthened our balance sheet with a strong Basel III-compliant liquidity position, while our capital raising activities have been well-supported by institutional and retail ...

Pershing upgrades to Broadridge processing solution

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... technology and operations solutions in Asia-Pacific Akhter Khan said global regulatory regimes such as FATCA, Dodd Frank, Basel III and a regional move to T+2 trade processing had put the focus squarely on middle- and back-office processes. "Institutions ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
Everything is political and especially so with the super-charged high stakes poker game on display in the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) where the battle lines were quickly drawn between financial product providers versus consumers. And after listening ...