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Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... lending regulations (especially for investment housing) and mortgage rate increases and stricter lending rules imposed by banks since the start of the second quarter impact the domestic property market. This is affirmed by CoreLogic's recent report showing ...

Currency and managing volatility: New Financial Standard spot poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
An overwhelming majority of respondents to the Financial Standard weekly poll are in support of the banks' crackdown on employee background checks. Last week the publication asked about the crackdown and 80% of respondents voted in favour of the move. ...

Broaden levy to foreign banks: Big four

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
Large foreign banks should also be subjected to the proposed $6.2 billion bank levy, Australia's four major banks told the Senate Standing Committee on Economics reviewing the levy Bill last week. Many multinational banks, while active in the institutional ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... statements move markets. Not that anyone has to be reminded about this truism of course. The world's four major central banks - the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ and the BOE - and the RBA met over the past forthnight and not a single one failed market expectations. ...

Fintechs must collaborate, not disrupt: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... and greater choice, incumbents are retaining one important advantage - customer trust. Stability and security have helped banks and traditional institutions maintain their dominant position, but are losing the younger, tech-savvy Gen Y customers to alternative ...

Banks narrowly avoid parliamentary inquiry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
Australian banks have narrowly dodged the possibility of facing a Royal Commission-style inquiry after a Green's Bill to establish a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry fell short by a single vote in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Bill ...

Advisers preparing ahead of professional standards: Spot poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
... indicate a portion of advisers feel they will adequately meet the professional standards. Today we ask: 'Do you support the banks' crackdown on employee background checks?' The question comes on the back of the Australian Bankers' Association introducing ...

Westpac to review history of new applicants

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... behaviour in banking, and will help us to deliver better service to our customers." ABA chief executive Anna Bligh said banks recognise they need to do more to stop individuals with poor conduct records moving around the industry and escaping detection ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... a withdrawal from monetary stimulus" makes no sense. For sure, the BOJ, like the Fed and the ECB and most other central banks engaged in non-conventional policies, wants to get their monetary policy settings back to normal. But unlike the Fed, Japan's ...

BetaShares launches defensive ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... (excluding fees). About 80% of investments are allocated to senior floating rate debt securities issued by the big four banks, with the remainder in regional banks such as Macquarie, AMP, Bank of Queensland, and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. Bonds within ...