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Expert issues cyber-attack warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... at their staff and customers. "The values of transactions in this group are typically much higher than an average retail bank customer's transactions. Private banks are highly sensitive to relationship impacts and reputational damage and don't want to ...

Mining capex in a hole

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... firm says the central banks of Europe and Japan are pushing the monetary accelerator while commodities exporters such as Canada and Australia are cutting rates to cushion the fall for their slowing economies.

Legg Mason appoints custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... Legg Mason Australia has appointed RBC Investor & Treasury Services as its custodian and administrator. Part of the Royal Bank of Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services has provided investment administration outsourcing services to fund managers in ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... restrictions on the use of retirement savings for home purchases - and expectations for more policy easing by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) boosted investor confidence, sending the Shanghai Composite index up by 2.5% yesterday. That's fine and dandy ...

QIC hires senior infrastructure execs

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Management's infrastructure investments group. Tucker has three decades of infrastructure experience. He joins from the Royal Bank of Canada in London, where he established the bank's infrastructure franchise, and for more than a decade was its managing ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... "surprises" - monetary policy easing by the central banks of Australia, India, Singapore, China, Peru, Turkey, Russia and Canada; QE by the ECB; more (or longer) QE by the BOJ; and the RBNZ's policy hawk to dove reversal. Financial markets expect more ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... banks - big and small - are getting the 'when Harry met Sally syndrome' - "I'll have what she's having". The Swiss National Bank jumpstarted it all with its "surprise" decision to abandon its CHF1.20/euro peg. This was the same time as the Reserve Bank ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... pricing) from 25% just over a week ago. What changed? What changed was that between then and last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) QE'd and the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a surprise rate cut. Ipso facto, the RBA could (must?) too. Why must our ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... Surprises, surprises, and more surprises. We're yet to complete the first month of 2015 and thus far, we've gotten central bank surprises a-plenty... and they're not kinder surprises either. We've seen the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stomp the CHF1.20/euro ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The details are still sketchy as I type but the shootings at Canada's Parliament in Ottawa may just have been the reason dip-buyers were waiting for to cash in the gains they bought during the previous week's bigger than usual dips. Not because of oil ...