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NAB deploys Telstra tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
National Australia Bank is improving its telephone banking with a new speech recognition product from Telstra and VeCommerce. The new service is designed to improve NAB's telephone banking experience, as customer enquiries are directed to the most appropriately ...

ASF appoints chair

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... as chair. Fuller replaces outgoing chair, Phil Vernon. The ASF represents more than 120 organisations including banks, non-bank mortgage providers, investment managers, ratings agencies to promote advocacy, consensus and education. The forum has been ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... the numbers were released, we've seen the market fall another 30 points, or one per cent." At 1203 AEDT, National Australia Bank had dipped 23 cents to $17.09, Commonwealth Bank had shed 78 cents to $27.51, Westpac had retreated 23 cents to $15.84 and ...

BNP turns to games for education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
BNP Paribas has developed a video game that allows the bank's European based employees to create their own virtual bank and learn more about the international banking system. The game, Starbank, allows employees or players to build a bank in an orbital ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... giveth and the RBA giveth again. Who would have thought that after two weeks of bad economic news here and abroad, the Reserve Bank of Australia would still have the nerve to say, 'she'll be right mate.' For this is exactly what the Australian central ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... In economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases national accounts data at 1130 AEDT. Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor of economics Malcolm Edey speaks at the AIG Annual Economic Forum in Sydney. The Australian ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
The Australian stock market was around 1.5 per cent lower at noon ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision, after diversified financials and transport stocks helped the market claw back some lost ground. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
Global property securities fund manager, AMP Capital Redding Investors isn't changing its listed property strategies and continues to win mandates while the listed property sector continues to under-perform. Kim Redding, AMP Capital Redding Investors ...

Shenkman Capital now represented Down Under

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... Partners. Shenkman Capital began in 1985 and is an independently owned investment firm that focuses on managing high yield and bank loan portfolios among leveraged companies. Shenkman said the investment opportunities for credit are because "actual defaults ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... money end? And how? Temporary nationalisation maybe? Alan Greenspan seems to think so. But after thinking about it, the 'bad bank' idea - proposed and later dismissed - could be more effective. I argued against it before saying that it worked in the ...