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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... economic news this week, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Assistant Governor Guy Debelle will speak about systemic risk and Basel III at the Financial Stability and Regulation Conference in Sydney. In equity news, Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... half-annual Financial Stability Review. RBA assistant governor (financial system) Malcolm Edey is scheduled to speak at the Basel III Conference in Sydney. And the Australian Office of Financial Management was due to conduct a tender of $900 million ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... definition of liquid assets that the banking industry must hold from 2015. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) produced a global framework that set limits on liquidity risk for banks. ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... pain when the fiscal austerity measures bite. But at least, the Eurozone economy would be starting from a stronger base. Basel the third. Yes, this provided a pleasant surprise. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision agreed to tighten capital requirements ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... smaller institutions. Bank regulators and central bankers, including chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, gathered in Basel Switzerland and proposed to increase the minimum common equity requirement for banks from 2 per cent to 4.5 per cent. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher, following a positive finish on Wall Street and in Europe, and after contract prices for oil, silver and copper ended firmer. At 0728 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
"Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round..." - Upside Down, Diana Ross If there's any observation that can be made about Wall Street's movement overnight, it is that investor sentiment remains fragile. Just when financial markets ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... Amid these doom and gloom, market's dismissed European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet's press conference in Basel, Switzerland. Monsieur Trichet stated that, 'We have a number of elements suggesting that we're approaching the moment where ...

Westpac and St.George merger ahead of schedule

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... Bank is progressing well. Approval to move to a single Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADI) is largely complete and Basel II advanced accreditation is expected by the middle of this year, she added. This comes after the bank advised its group ...

Property funds under green watch

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
Three European pension funds with more than $500 billion in assets are using their investment muscle to force property companies and fund managers to stay on top of their environmental policies, following the release of a new green property benchmark. ...