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Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... competitive tension. The big five, St George, Suncorp, BankWest, ING and Adelaide Bank are all funding the sort of mortgage lending that groups like ours are doing." McKeon said the business was still ticking over. AFG wrote $2.5 billion of residential ...

Bad weather dampens Suncorp profits

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... contraction in credit spread. In the event credit spreads widen further it is likely the banking sector will move to adjust its lending rates appropriately reflect the increased cost of funds," he said. "This gives us confidence that the full year impact ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... 5,842.5. NEW YORK - US stocks turned slightly lower on Wednesday afternoon after earlier gains on news of the lifting of lending caps for mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac proved short-lived. The Dow Jones industrial average was down ...

Comm Bank appoints lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
The Commonwealth Bank has appointed John Clothier to head of investment lending within the Colonial Geared Investments division. Clothier will manage the distribution of Colonial Geared Investments products including Colonial Margin Loan, CALIA+ and ...

Bell Financial Group to buy Tricom

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... Formed in 1994, Tricom's operations consist of four major components including broking solutions, margin and securities lending, capital markets and corporate advisory as well as wealth management. The fulfillment of Bell Financial Group's acquisition ...

Macq expands Perth private wealth arm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... appointed private client advisers in the stockbroking team. These appointees have more than 20 years experience across margin lending, equity trading and blue chip portfolio management. Risk management specialist, Sean Keady, has also been appointed ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... has been a lot of speculation surrounding Tricom and what is happening with them, unwinding a lot of their big margin lending position," Mr Foulsham said. "If you look at early yesterday morning and the day before, there was lot of selling that was related ...

Tricom trading on unusual terms

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... was "because Tricom's stock lender failed to deliver the stock". There's a lot of complexity behind the issues of stock lending, margin lending practices (by Tricom as a lender and by Tricom as a borrower from banks). Amongst the army of rapidly developing ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... Nonetheless the January correction was important because it has helped to start clean up some of the excesses of over-lending and paying poor attention to risk criteria. In these times of turbulence however, markets which usually bemoan government influence ...

Text ANZ for your account balance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... bank in Australia to offer customers a text-based mobile phone banking service. ANZ will be the first of the big four lending institutions to offer text-based banking facilities through its TXT Banking system. Customers can check account balances and ...