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Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... This got kicked still further down the road into what is increasingly becoming a Portuguese (and perhaps, Spanish and/or Italian and/or Belgian) crisis of 2011. The Portuguese are vehemently denying there's a crisis or that they'll need funding support. ...

ASX lodges defence for SGX pairing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) sends its strongest signal yet that it will push through its plans to merge with the Singapore Exchange, commissioning a report that outlined why the match makes sense. ASX engaged Access Economics to examine ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Why bring a rocket launcher to a fight when a BB gun would suffice. This must be what European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet last night when he announced only "small" measures to battle ongoing financial market tension in the Eurozone. ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... continent must be in danger. I want more protection from the rape of Europa! Here's Bloomberg: "Credit-default swaps insuring Italian government bonds rose 22.5 basis points to 268.4, contracts on Spain increased 12.8 basis points to 364 and Portugal ...

Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... middle of this year. Financial markets eventually got over it. They're still buying Greek, Portuguese, Irish, Spanish and Italian bonds. The additional money now sloshing in the system would find their way there too.

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... inside news pages. "For Greece, the problem is completely over," shouted former European Commission President and former Italian PM Romano Prodi from halfway across the globe in Shanghai. "I don't see any other case now in Europe. I don't think there ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... contribution from its external account could disappear given that other European nations are back-pedalling. Flash estimates show Italian real GDP contracted by 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter and Spain by 0.1 per cent. France grew by 0.6 per cent ...

ERSEL selects RIMES for tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
Italian and Luxembourg-domiciled asset manager ERSEL Sim S.p.A has selected Barra Performance on RIMES to service its performance measurement and attribution requirements. RIMES Technologies is a financial data integrator and performance solutions provider ...

State Street wins Italian pension client

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
State Street has been selected by Italian based $170 million pension fund service provider, PensPlan, to provide a number of investment services. PensPlan provides risk management, manager selection and asset liability modelling to pension funds and ...

Macquarie funds down, cash up

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... products. Meanwhile, the banking and financial services suffered a $99 million loss, following the sale of the the group's Italian mortgages. But underneath the red ink, the division enjoyed a more than doubling of retail deposits, up from $6.6 billion ...