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Chalmers unveils reforms to enhance RBA transparency

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2025
... an updated Statement on the Conduct of Monetary Policy (SCMP) and the first Statement of Expectations for the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) governance board. Chalmers said the RBA Monetary Policy Board formally agreed the new SCMP at its July meeting. ...

QIC names four new principals

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... serving as a director in the capital advisory team for real assets at Grant Samuels. Before that, he spent a decade at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he served as a director of European infrastructure financing, also covering debt advisory. Mark ...

Platinum executives depart amid merger talks

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... months ago, he spent eight years running distribution for XTBs (exchange-traded bond units). He previously worked at Royal Bank of Scotland, Macquarie Group and BT Financial.

Northern Trust selected to test tokenised asset uses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Project Acacia - first announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Treasury back in September 2024 - will now include industry participants to explore how digital currencies and existing settlement infrastructure might support the development ...

RBA delivers 'confounding' rates decision

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates on hold at 3.85% at the July meeting, surprising many experts and the markets which were anticipating another cut. The RBA board confirmed that inflation has continued to moderate but ultimately ...

RBA interest rate cut expected

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is widely anticipated to slash interest rates by 0.25% when the board meets tomorrow. MFS Investment Management fixed income research analyst Carl Ang said he believes the RBA will deliver a "dovish insurance cut". ...

RBA powers deemed 'last resort' for critical financial infrastructure fallout

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released a consultation paper on the proposed draft guidance for the Australian Clearing and Settlement (CS) Facility Resolution Regime. The RBA was provided with "crisis resolution powers" in response to a threat ...

Inflation continues to drop, calls for RBA cut grow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... April. State Street Global Advisors APAC economist Krishna Bhimavarapu said the data will put pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to deliver another interest rate cut at the next meeting. "We are convinced that the RBA needs to cut in July ...

Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... people, meant that the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1% for May." However, this result may restrict the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) flexibility in cutting rates throughout the remainder of the year. VanEck head of investments and capital ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... ASX." ASIC will announce who it will appoint to the panel in the coming weeks. It will include secondees from the Reserve Bank of Australia, APRA and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. ASIC will publish a report of the outcome of the inquiry ...