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RBA powers deemed 'last resort' for critical financial infrastructure fallout

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released a consultation paper on the proposed draft guidance for the Australian Clearing and Settlement (CS) Facility Resolution Regime. The RBA was provided with "crisis resolution powers" in response to a threat ...

Inflation continues to drop, calls for RBA cut grow

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2025
... months to April. State Street Global Advisors APAC economist Krishna Bhimavarapu said the data will put pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to deliver another interest rate cut at the next meeting. "We are convinced that the RBA needs to ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... and/or sticky in many regions. Market participants had been pricing in rate cuts from central banks including the Federal Reserve in the second half of the year. That is now in question," Green said. "A sustained surge in oil makes rate cuts very difficult ...

Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... 3000 people, meant that the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1% for May." However, this result may restrict the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) flexibility in cutting rates throughout the remainder of the year. VanEck head of investments and ...

ASIC launches fresh inquiry into ASX

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2025
... confidence in ASX." ASIC will announce who it will appoint to the panel in the coming weeks. It will include secondees from the Reserve Bank of Australia, APRA and Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. ASIC will publish a report of the outcome ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... supports growth and drives productivity; to combine our Future Made in Australia plan, our critical mineral strategic reserve, and our new investment framework with a deeper and more diversified trade agenda, especially in our region; and to provide ...

Treasury welcomes new leader

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; the Department of Industry; the Department of Climate Change; and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Aside from her work experience, Wilkinson served as a member on the ANU Tax Transfer Institute advisory ...

King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... officer at the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (CSC) since 2007. She previously worked as a senior economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), senior international economic strategist at BT Financial Group and executive vice president of ...

Minimum wage to rise 3.5%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2025
... squeezed and the low paid have experienced greater difficulty in meeting their everyday needs." It said the fact that the Reserve Bank of Australia is confident that underlying inflation has returned sustainably to the target range provided an opportunity ...

UK treasury provides guidance on local pension consolidation

MATT TOLEDO  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... asset pooling is March 2026. According to the Pension Investment Review, the Pension Scheme Bill could give the government reserve power to mandate a baseline target allocation for pensions to invest in private assets and other domestic investments. ...