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GSA an affordable alternative to DLAs: APRA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... of its recruitment." It also strongly opposed any change to the capital requirements of authorised deposit-taking institutions, which the FSI interim reported suggested to facilitate greater competition between large and small ADIs.

Vertical integration good for consumers, competition: instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
Australia's largest financial services institutions have argued that vertical integration is positive for consumers because it helps market competition. The stakeholders have rebuffed the Financial System Inquiry's (FSI) concern that vertical integration ...

Call general advice 'sales': CBA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... forward looking and which promote the governance structures, corporate culture and management systems within financial institutions that will enable a firm to operate within prudent strategic settings and respond to emerging systemic risks," it said. ...

Australian Money Market adds CBA to platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... Queensland, Bankwest and Macquarie Bank. Australian Money Market facilitates the secure movement of funds between financial institutions via a central cash management account in the client's name. AMM does not hold any monies on trust for clients. Once ...

MDAs allow small players to act as large instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... discretionary accounts (MDA) allows small investment players to act as if they had the scale of the industry's large institutions, SS&C Technologies head of Australia and New Zealand Nadine Moore said. Speaking at the inaugural Financial Standard Managed ...

NAB gives advisers 3 years to meet tougher standards

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... advisers to hold tertiary qualifications. NAB/MLC has been the latest to join the wave of Australian large financial institutions that are raising the education requirements for their financial planners, following a number of financial planning scandals ...

A quarter of global instos plan to grow alternatives investment teams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... over the next two years, according to the latest survey by Preqin. The specialist research house asked 380 global institutions who are active in alternative assets for their outlook on the asset class. A total of 28% indicated plans to grow their investment ...

Dimensional latest to join Calastone network

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... by fax machine, with data inputted manually by operators. Dimensional joins a growing list of Australian financial institutions using the service. These include NAB Asset Servicing, netwealth, IML, EQT, Goldman Sachs, BT Financial Group, Hyperion, Fidelity ...

Consumers ask banks to disclose brand ownership

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Most Australians believe that multi-branding is a trick used by banks to hide their ownership and would like institutions to disclose who owns them when they advertise, new research found. As many as 84% of respondents, in research surveying 1,520 people ...

Consumers have no loyalty to financial institutions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
The average Australian customer of each of the major banks deals with more than four institutions across their full range of financial services. This shows there is little loyalty towards any one institution, Roy Morgan has concluded. Of the ten major ...