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Crypto lures executives despite ongoing uncertainty

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... officer. The moves follow J.P. Morgan's former head of ideation jump to head of corporate development at The Digital Currency group in May. The report also highlighted crypto elation felt by other executives. Binance's chief executive Changpeng ...

Uncertain times calls for portfolio dynamism: Insight

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... risk." Insight investment specialist Ben Ereira said this has been a key challenge for superannuation funds. "In the currency space, super funds are growing ever larger, and with that, they certainly have far more foreign currency risks," he said. He ...

ETF Securities launches fixed income options

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2022
... high-yield corporate bond fund. The new funds are the ETFS US Treasury Bond ETF and ETFS USD High Yield Bond ETF (both currency hedged). ETF Securities US Treasury Bond (USTB) tracks the iBoxx $ Treasuries Total Return Index and is the first pure play ...

ABE releases Rolls Royce bond

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... already offers products linked to Jaguar Land Rover, Xerox ansd Goodyear Tyres. The bond is a fixed rate coupon, fully currency hedged into Australian dollars, and paid semi-annually until February 2026. ABE's managing director Bradley McCosker said ...

Selfwealth announces crypto offering

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2022
... a direct investment into five cryptocurrencies from June 30. The wealth creation disruptor has partnered with digital currency exchange BTC Markets to offer Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Chainlink and Uniswap. Customers will be able to familiarise themselves ...

AustralianSuper expands capital markets team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2022
... nation's biggest superannuation fund confirmed that Kerr has been appointed head of platform management to help optimise its currency and derivative implementation strategies. Kerr joins from Paradyn Capital where he was the founder and chief investment ...

Superhero, Swyftx in $1.5bn merger

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
... regulated business will be enormously important in shaping the future of the combined entity, especially with digital currency going through its own journey towards regulation," he said. Superhero and Swyftx will continue to operate their separate platforms ...

ACCC on financial services priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
... markets and good consumer outcomes." Market inquiries are an important tool for the ACCC and its 2019 inquiry into foreign currency conversion services provided a good example of how this works in practice, she added. "FX services are significant to ...

Brookfield pursues asset management spin-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
... effort by taking our proprietary assets into account at a severe discount)," Brookfield said. "Having a new security or "currency" that is well understood and appreciated by the public markets will maximise optionality for us as we continue to scale ...

ANZ stablecoin amplifies changing operating models

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022
ANZ has seized the opportunities afforded to it by global digital currency adoption and created the first Australian-bank-issued stablecoin with positive results. Having only recently minted its first stablecoin, ANZ has already found several key elements ...