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Franchise banking attract planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... Commonwealth Bank launched a specialist banking division, Financial Planning Banking, that specifically caters to the lending needs of dealer groups. The group did nine months of research to come up with a lending model that suits planners and, more ...

Equator Principles still relevant: CFS GAM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... initiatives," said McCluskey. "Whereas the Equator Principles are a commitment to incorporate environmental and social issues into lending projects to developing countries." Although McCluskey said the Equator Principles are relevant, one of Australia's ...

Deloitte warns against split regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... Green Paper's reasoning for excluding non-mortgage loans rests primarily on coverage. Mortgages cover 86 per cent of all lending. It also points out the 'varied needs of consumers' across jurisdictions as well as individual product characteristics. "We ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... exchange, the June share price index was down eight points at 5,413. In economic data, the Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance for April, and the Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment is also due. Today there are a few conferences ...

Syndicated loan market contracts by half

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Syndicated lending by Australian banks fell by around half during the March 2008 quarter, in one measure of the restricted availability of corporate credit since the global credit crunch emerged in mid 2007. The Bank for International Settlements estimated ...

Govt outlines credit reg reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... government has released a green paper outlining how the States could transfer powers over mortgages, mortgage brokers, margin lending, non-bank lending and trustee companies to the Commonwealth. Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate ...

IMAP gains Aviva muscle

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... Navigator's investment product range at Aviva. He is in charge of the Navigator IDPS, managed accounts, share services, margin lending and multi manager unit trusts among other divisions. "We wanted to get some expertise in the platform space and [Rowley ...

Ord Minnett to invest in finance titans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... managing director of Ord Minnett Asset Management. Investors will also be provided with a loan facility by Ord Minnett Margin Lending, which allows loans up to 100 per cent of the original investment amount.

Recovery in securitised assets mask long term problems

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
... securitised sector however masks a long decline in their growth as banks and other loan providers increasingly dominate this lending space. For example, a decade ago securitised assets would routinely report annual growth of 60 per cent but since then ...

CommSec extends its reach

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... customer base is sufficiently different from the bank's to warrant the creation of a wider product portfolio that may include lending and deposit products. Tait was not giving much away yesterday except to say that the rollout will start this year.