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High risk investors lose appetite for risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... so the chance of capital loss is non-existent." However he warned: "Banks' love affair with cash may soon be over, as the Basel III framework moves into operation next January. As part of this, banks will likely start offering interest rates for tier-one ...

Hedge fund maestro Hintze voices concern over regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... investment industry has had to adapt to sweeping policy interventions in the wake of the GFC such as Dodd Frank in the US and Basel III globally. "Normally we say 'don't waste a good crisis' but every regulator around the world is beating their chest," ...

Cash Converters to raise $60m through bond issue

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Alternative credit provider and pawnbroker Cash Converters is the latest company to issue an unrated corporate bond through fixed income broker FIIG Securities. Cash Converters hopes to raise between $50 and $60 million through the unsecured bond issue. ...

Storm claim unfair and baseless: CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has strongly reacted to the news that Storm Financial victims' lawyer will start legal proceedings against the $136 million settlement that the bank reached with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) last ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... president Bill Dudley remarked in his speech at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 2013 Annual General Meeting in Basel, Switzerland that "financial stability is a necessary prerequisite for an effective monetary policy". Minneapolis Fed head ...

Peak6 $1bn capital raise boosted by Aussie instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... other financials as they try to improve their liability positions in the face of tighter regulatory measures arising from Basel III.

Basel III to see banks focus on longer-term depositors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... owning more products, according to ING DIRECT's executive director distribution Lisa Claes. Although the final details of the Basel III regulations are yet to be finalised in Australia, Claes believes the incentive to provide single customers with multiple ...

First Super gets MySuper green light

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
Industry fund First Super has received its MySuper authorisation from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). First Super was one of the first funds to lodge an application for the authorisation at the start of the year. According to ...

APRA appoints new chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Byres became the first Australian to be appointed secretary general to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the global forum responsible for the G20 banking agenda. He was also central to Australia's ...

Puke on the punchbowl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
So near, yet so far. Remember those back of the envelope calculations we did yesterday, Virginia? The one which showed that the S&P 500 is almost there - could reclaim the all-time peak it reached in October 2007 by this weekend or at the most by the ...