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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... back in December 2011 - when fear was elevated - that prompted coordinated action by six of the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem ...

Super governance changes questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... which will be borne by members. At the same time, no action is being taken to address the identified problems within the banks wealth management divisions," Whiteley said.

Xero inking partnership for real-time PI insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... Speaking to Financial Standard, Xero managing director Chris Ridd said that the real-time cover concept follows on from banks using Xero's data to examine businesses' accounts receivable, payments and revenue history for loan credit-checking. "All of ...

Capital raising not total solution: CIFR

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
A study from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) suggests that on top of banks increasing capital, more can be done to improve their financial stability. The study says in addition to banks increasing capital, compensation structures ...

CBA profit tops $9 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... profit by 15.5% to $316 million. CFS Global Asset Management returned a 20% profit increase to $286 million. Announcing the banks 2015 results today, Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev said insurance income decreased 3% during the year due to ...

GBST wealth management performance drives 52% profit boost

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... helped win new clients. Australian Wealth Management operations successfully completed several large migration projects for banks and financial services organisations."

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Australian open (no, not the tennis) to the bank, more so that investors seemed to have ridden themselves of the big four banks' - ANZ, CBA, NAB, WBC - capital raising spooks of last week. Even more so that commodity prices of most variety have risen ...

Financial services industry unites for marriage equality

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... George and Westpac. The only superannuation fund in the list is AustralianSuper, while fund managers and large investment banks such as BNY Mellon, Citi, J.P. Morgan, State Street and UBS also signed the letter. The letter states: "We support diversity ...

Advice licensee uses tech to bypass paraplanning

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... the partnership will see SSFS have a paperless office that will shift it from pre-internet, to a system that will surpass banks. Midwinter will implement registry and digital as part of stage two in the coming months. SSFS has over 50,000 clients and ...

Industry fears the Uber of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... corporates in the future, an issue that worries 49% of them. "There is high likelihood that technology companies will bypass banks and financial services regulators; just like Uber has bypassed the taxi industry and its regulators," one respondent said. ...