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RBA rate rises up in the air: Economists

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
... not completely off the table. "The RBA certainly can't lean into the banking issues offshore given US and European central banks have hiked this week," Commonwealth Bank head of Australian economics and market research Gareth Aird told Financial Standard. ...

Global alternatives manager lands down under

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2023
... his 12-year stint at HSBC as director of institutional sales, where he focused on sales and distribution to super funds, banks and asset managers. Before that, he worked for Deutsche Asset Management and Westpac. GCM is the second Chicago firm to establish ...

Professionalise sustainability within funds: Panel

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... she explained. She said this positive result is due to investor demand. "Major funders of the shipping industry are big banks around the world, they all have to demonstrate who they are lending money to and what those shipping companies are doing to ...

Jones to prioritise CSLR legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... the passage of the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR), which will put more accountability on senior executives running banks, insurance companies, and superannuation funds. The four key requirements of the FAR force entities to comply with accountability ...

Lending to small businesses increases: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
Despite soaring interest rates, the number of small business owners borrowing from banks has sharply risen in 2022, a new survey reveals. More than a third (36%) of Australian small businesses canvassed by CPA Australia are increasingly relying on external ...

UBS throws $4.8bn lifeline to Credit Suisse

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
... marks, purchase price adjustments and restructuring costs, and additional 50% downside protection on non-core assets. Both banks have unrestricted access to the SNB's existing facilities, through which they can obtain liquidity from the central bank ...

ASX shifts slightly on Credit Suisse, First Republic

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
... communities. First Republic founder and executive chair Jim Herbert and its chief executive and present Mike Roffler thanked the banks for their collective support and for strengthening its liquidity position. "The deposit from those major banks along ...

Aware Super restructures investment team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2023
Aware Super restructured its investment team in support of its growth strategy, naming three new asset class leads in the process. The super fund joins the likes of AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust in reshaping its investment team as ...

Fink warns of "slow rolling crisis"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
... exposed cracks in the financial system," he wrote. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank over the weekend and two other smaller banks since might have been just that, he suggested. "It's too early to know how widespread the damage is. The regulatory ...

Credit Suisse, oil prices see ASX fall: CommSec

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
... Felsman explained this is a separate issue from the United States and Silicon Valley Bank fallout which caused US regional banks to slump. "First Republic Bank, which seems to be at the forefront of investors' minds in the US at the moment, its share ...