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Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
US data releases dumped on our screens overnight, combined with easing US/North Korean tensions, provide another green light for the Fed to proceed with policy normalisation. Balance sheet unwinding and another rate hike before 2017 turns into 2018 ...

Government names advice standards chief

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) is welcoming its inaugural chief executive. Deen Sanders, currently assistant commissioner of the Professional Standards Authority of Australia, will take on the role at FASEA on September  ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
I'll see your "fire and fury" and raise you Guam. Yes Virginia, that's Trump and Kim going ballistic once again as they play high stakes ICBM poker. Who will be the first to blink and fold? From what we already know of each players' character and temperament ...

CBA contemplates CommInsure sale

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
Commonwealth Bank confirmed in its annual results presentation that third parties are discussing an acquisition of the bank's life insurance business. Describing CommInsure as a "strong business with scale, expertise, competitive products and access ...

Managed accounts forum unveils new format, adviser focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
The Financial Standard Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts is introducing an entirely new and innovative format in 2017, placing financial advisers front and centre of the one-day conference. Financial Standard launches a new program format called ...

CBA blames reporting failure on software error

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
The Commonwealth Bank says its failure to notify AUSTRAC of more than 53,000 large cash deposits in its intelligent deposit machines was caused by a software error which was not discovered for more than two years. In a public statement CBA outlined ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates by 25 basis points - repo rate to 6% (the first reduction in 10 months and the lowest rate since October 2010) and the reverse repo rate to 5.75% (reversing the 25 bps hike announced only four months ...

Australian businesses lift borrowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2017
Signaling a reorientation in Australia's credit markets, the RBA Financial Aggregates report for June shows that business borrowing has surged relative to home borrowings even as home borrowing still dominates credit markets. According to the RBA total ...

O'Dwyer names one-stop-shop dispute resolution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
A former RBA governor will spearhead the merger of three financial and superannuation dispute resolution bodies into a one-stop-shop. Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer told the FSC Leaders Summit yesterday that Malcolm Edey will ...

Good jobs, sluggish pay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017
Although not completely gangbusters, the latest Australian labour market update provided another justification for the optimism and seemingly hawkish turn the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) conveyed in the minutes of its 4 July board meeting. The Australian ...