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Global fintech heralds Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
... management solutions is boosting its local footprint by appointing a country manager for Australia. Andrew Wood joins AxiomSL from IMF Bentham, where he held an interim consultant role. Prior to that, he was a senior project manager - technology and ...

APRA urges banks to raise capital

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... Australian financial system, which noted Australia's robust economy despite commodity price and mining investment bust. The IMF encouraged Australian authorities to remain vigilant and continue to enhance the resilience of the banking system to shocks ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... either its balance sheet or its planning capacity to do infrastructure spending." So did the G-20, so did the OECD, so did the IMF. President Trump will be giving them what they were asking for, that is, fiscal accommodation via higher government spending ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report and true to form, it's once more taking down earlier more optimistic forecasts. In October 2015, the IMF saw world economic output growing brightly ...

NAB dispels housing bubble "toil and trouble"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... consumer price index, there were no real indicators that there was any kind of bubble about to burst. He pointed to warnings from IMF and Steve Keen over the past 10 years about the issue, noting their predictions had yet to eventuate. "I don't want ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... UK vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions." There's the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warning that Brexit is "the largest near-term risk" to the UK economy, it could spark a crash in the stock and property markets ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... 0.1% dip and represents the first annual drop in three years (March 2013). The disappointing result confirmed the BOE and IMF's recent statements that 'Brexit" uncertainty is weighing down investment with the BOE even warning of risks to the economy ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... of Australia's discussion of the Australian dollar could be out of line". "The Office of the US Executive Director at the IMF (OUSED) expressed concern over the [Australian] authorities' public statements on the desired direction of the exchange rate" ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... risk assets -- have gone up, up and away in the week ended 15 April -- the very week when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recalibrated its growth forecasts for the world... and found it slowing even more than its previous guesses. In its April ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... recent positive releases - such as the improvement in PMI (both Caixin and official measure) in March -- giving credence to the IMF's recent upgrade of its 2016 China growth forecast from 6.3% to 6.5%. Chinese exports jumped by 11.5% to US$160.9 billion ...