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ING taps Ukraine insurance market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... our experience in setting up successful operations in other countries in central and eastern Europe we will able to make a swift and efficient start." The global Dutch financial institution has had a presence in the Ukraine since 1994, providing leasing ...

Goodbye fax, hello tech messaging

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... own messaging projects," says SWIFTNet Funds project leader, Tim Hamer. The SWIFTNet Funds market practice and pilot uses SWIFT's ISO20022 compliant XML messaging - a set of message standards created to automate the managed funds operations. The end ...

JPMorgan joins debt platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
... four members under the deal. The firm is expected to begin using the "dealer to client" market in June this year. Richard Swift, Yieldbroker general manager, said the addition of JPMorgan meant clients could simultaneously request competitive prices ...

Buy side problems FIX'd

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... intention to put the market on notice that regulation is about to step up a level, reaction of the market has already been swift with US newspapers reporting investment managers fearing extra costs and compliance overload. But given the sub-prime debacle ...

Investment infrastructure needs upgrade: ACSA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... not only fall on custodians, but required assistance from fund managers, the registries and technology companies such as SWIFT. "Australia continues to develop very innovative investment strategies but the infrastructure that sits behind it is very manual. ...

New take on old fee debate

MICHAEL HOBBS, MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... the old commission versus fixed fee debate. But how about charging performance-based fees the way a fund manager does? Tim Swift, director at Focus Financial Planning, said that would sound good in theory but not so easy in practice. "Definitely, most ...

Vanguard upgrades with SimCorp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... the existing system including the trade capture and matching application, Omgeo CTM, investment accounting, unit pricing, SWIFT connectivity and post-trade compliance. According to Vanguard Investments Australia (Vanguard), the decision to change was ...

SWIFT overhauls proxy voting

Financial messaging specialist SWIFT pushes corporate governance up a notch through an automated messaging system that creates a transparent 'audit trail' of proxy votes cast by fund managers and pension funds. The new system, called SWIFTNet Proxy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... most of the day as the market was buffeted by worries over the housing slump and the credit crisis, major indices mounted a swift upturn in the last half hour of trade as investors bid up shares of technology companies such as BlackBerry maker Research ...