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Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (Financial Markets) Guy Debelle is to deliver a speech to the APRA Basel III Implementation Workshop 2011 and the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases construction work data for September. In ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
Australian Wayne Byres has been appointed as the new secretary general of global banking standard-setting body, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Byres has been at the helm of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) as executive ...

Smaller lenders to take brunt of Basel III reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
Smaller institutions such as credit unions and building societies are likely to be hardest hit by the Basel III capital reforms, said PwC, following the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's release of a discussion paper on the subject. APRA ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... Asia-Pacific market, a need to invest in channels such as internet services and compliance requirements of new regulations such as Basel III, are fuelling Asian growth in technology investment," said Jaroslaw Knapik, senior analyst, Ovum. The Asia-Pacific's ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... Tuesday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (financial markets) Guy Debelle addresses the Systemic Risk, Basel III, Financial Stability and Regulation Conference. In equities news, in Melbourne, National Australia Bank chief executive ...

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. ...