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Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... payments, which include payments made through closed loop cards and mobile apps, digital wallets mobile money, and virtual currencies makes it challenging for banks and non-bank payment services providers in determining optimal operating and processing ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... recourse but to grant China's application for the inclusion the yuan in its special drawing rights (SDRs) basket of currencies... eventually. This, "Standard Chartered Plc estimated could trigger as much as $1 trillion of inflows into the currency". ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... they'll be the ones forced to act to increase the amount of their quantitative easing programmes, to cheapen their currencies to lift growth and inflation. The same goes for the RBA.

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... us. The yuan devaluation is borne of this because of its peg to the US dollar. As the greenback climbs against other currencies, so too is the yuan - making "Made in China" exports less competitive, slowing down their economy. The sharp falls in commodity ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... its monetary policy. We can blame Japan and Europe for their "beggar thy neighbour" policies by depreciating their currencies. We can blame it on the Rio... but it could never, never be us. For, according to the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... People's Bank of China's decision to devalue the currency, has benefitted the fund, which is short a basket of Asian currencies. "Despite being cautious on emerging market currencies generally, we hold a long Mexican peso position as we expect ongoing ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... float freely. The yuan's semi-peg to the US$ meant that as the US dollar goes up, so does the yuan vis-A -vis other currencies - the 8.3% drop in Chinese exports reported earlier this week bears witness to the erosion in export competitiveness wrought ...

China FTA gives Australia "first mover advantage"

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... also needs more competitive tax rates and a multi-currency classes fund capability to issue China funds in different currencies.

AustralianSuper posts double digit returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... infrastructure; reasonable returns from US, European and Japanese equity markets boosted by the strength of foreign currencies against the Australian dollar; and modest returns on fixed income and cash. AustralianSuper manages more than $90 billion of ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... government's fiscal stimulus is not successful. In that scenario, the exchange rate would devalue against non-Chinese currencies by 5%, while it would appreciate by 5% against the Renminbi. Terms of trade would fall 10%, which, along with the RMB appreciation ...