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BNP turns to games for education

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... who assists them. By playing the game, BNP Paribas said employees gain knowledge about the bank's core business; retail banking, asset management corporate and investment banking. Using video games to highlight issues or promote education is being adopted ...

Suncorp chief departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
... Promina." In separate news, Suncorp appointed former St George Bank chief financial officer of wealth management and retail banking, Peter Loosmore, as chief financial officer of the firm's wealth management division. Loosmore replaces Kym Hooper who ...

New CEO for Russell

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... Middle East, Asia and Australia. They covered the broad spectrum of financial services, including asset management, retail banking, wholesale banking, hedge funds, investment banking, private equity, life insurance, general insurance and financial services ...

Macq confirms bank guarantee

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
Macquarie Group has informed retail banking clients the Federal Government's Guarantee will extend to its cash deposits across its banking product suite at no extra cost. According to Macquarie Group, cash deposits held by retail clients are protected ...

Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... Trust Australia managing director. Cutts said the firm had no intention to use the banking licence to launch into retail banking. He said the firm is developing a more "scalable, robust and market differentiating" tax and regulatory reporting tool for ...

Swan clears St George takeover

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... retaining the brands of St George and Bank of South Australia, "dedicated management teams" for St George and Westpac retail banking distribution and a "corporate presence" at the former head office of St George in Kogarah. Westpac appears to still be ...

More ins than outs at VTCU

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... structure of our balance sheet, we took the view to take advantage of the market place due to the strength of our retail banking model." Wolke said the 19 per cent drop in administration expenses to $3.2 million for the period was due to more efficient ...

CBA buys BankWest and St Andrews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... which includes 77 banking centres and $22 billion in deposits, will be also integrated into the group. BankWest retail banking business represents more than 860,000 customers, $28 billion in lending assets of and $15 billion in deposits. Commonwealth ...

Japan bank buys $11bn of Morgan Stanley

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... stock. The two firms have already outlined areas for collaboration, including corporate and investment banking, retail banking and asset management. Both firms plan to establish a steering committee to enhance the benefits of the alliance. The $9 billion ...

Banks not ready for Web 2.0

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2008
... explored how banks are using Web 2.0 several years on since the advent of social networking sites. Rik Turner, retail banking technology analyst at Datamonitor and author of the study, said that a generation of consumers is entering the market that not ...