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APRA outlines priorities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... strong capital buffers above the minimum requirements that could be used in a downturn to insulate banks and encourage lending. While APRA is not a member of the Basel Committee it does support a single global approach to capital requirements for banking ...

IBM Cognos measures credit risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... line of sight" to every business unit. For example, most retail banks receive data from numerous sources - their mortgage lending unit, credit card business and from their traditional banking arm. They may have also inherited data following mergers and ...

Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... debt in the core broking business. Bell Potter Capital recorded strong revenue growth from the firm's cash and margin lending products and the margin book is conservatively managed with an average gearing of 44 per cent. And Bell Financial Group purchase ...

China could own America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... preserve the value of the company's common shares (read to save its shareholders). Moral hazards everywhere, isn't it? Lending and investment institutions cannot be allowed to fail, shareholders cannot be allowed to experience substantial losses, mortgage ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... house prices. Falling house prices are depressing bank's balance sheets. Impaired balance sheets are preventing banks from lending. Less credit availability is damaging the economy. A damaged economy is wreaking havoc on confidence on household wealth. ...

AMP posts profits, AUM falls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... than double its contribution the previous year. AMP said in a statement that this was due to the growth of the retail lending and deposits last year. AMP Financial Planning grew its planner base by three per cent to 2,095, which included the 27 new AMP ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... (Financial Stability Plan) - renamed ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act )were designed to prevent the obese lending institutions and greedy investment banks from dying due to over-indulgence, the HASP now seeks to save American home borrowers ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... transmitted much more quickly in Australia than in our neighbours. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to drop lending rates further. The Federal Government's latest stimulus package has been passed by Parliament and would start to work its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... international department, will address the 2009 Currency Management Forum. The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance data for December. National Australia Bank releases its agribusiness survey for the December quarter. In company news ...

Plusses and minuses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... consumer sentiment happened against the backdrop of the RBA's February rate cut, the major banks passing the reduction in lending rates in full and the Government's announcement of a fresh A$42 billion stimulus package. What gives? What gives is perhaps ...