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ASIC spots forex breaches at ANZ and Westpac

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
ASIC has accepted enforceable undertakings from Westpac and ANZ following an investigation into the banks' wholesale foreign exchange businesses. The regulator found that between 2008 and 2013, Westpac and ANZ's systems and controls failed to address ...

FIIG expands fixed income research team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... two senior researchers. Joining the fixed income team is John Manning, who will take over as director - credit research, banks and financials; and Mary Anne Low, who joins as director - credit research, infrastructure and resources. The appointments ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
The strength and resilience of the banks' and household balance sheets - rather than indicators such as credit or rising house prices - are a key focus for the RBA, assistant governor Michele Bullock said. Bullock told this morning's Bloomberg address ...

Largest Aussie single solar project deal sealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
The Commonwealth Bank and Clean Energy Finance Corporation have joined forces with one of Germany's biggest banks in Australia's largest single solar project financing deal to date. As financing partners to Edify Energy and international investor Wirsol ...

RBC secures custody mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... product offering reinforced our confidence in them as our service provider of choice. Its status as one of the strongest banks in the world with the highest credit rating of all the global custody providers operating in Australia was also an important ...

Women key to finance sector culture issues

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... performance. An organisation can have a get a great performer but "messes your culture up" as evident in some investment banks. "It's really hard as a chief executive to say, 'you're my top performer, your behaviour has been abhorrent, I'm not going ...

We have made mistakes: CBA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... told a parliamentary inquiry this morning the bank made mistakes and still has a lot of work to do. On day two of the major banks review, Narev fronted the House of Representative's Standing Committee and admitted "we have made mistakes" and did not ...

NAB chief promises greater accountability

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... Anthony Cahill faced the House of Representative's Standing Committee on Economics, representing the first of the four major banks in an effort to review Australia's banking and financial system. Of the 1138 employees, who breached the bank's code of ...

Listed advice groups gaining ground

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
As banks and major financial institutions are challenged to address set backs across respective wealth and advice businesses, several listed advice groups have shown they are on to a winning model. Growth for Centrepoint Alliance's wealth division is ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... macroeconomic implications." True that, especially when you consider housing's large multiplier effect on the economy - it affects banks, construction, legal services, architects, painters, bricklayers, retailers of home furnishings and appliances, etc. ...