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Westpac restructures fin services and tech

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
Westpac is combining the front-end of its Business Financial Services and Consumer Financial Services divisions and is replacing its existing Business Technology Solutions and Services (BTSS) arm with two new business units. The move to restructure ...

DKN buys Bigger businesses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... the two businesses via its equity partner MQ Planning Pty Ltd. Bigger Accounting has a strong fee base largely focused on SME clients. It also boasts a cross relationship and referral to its financial planning business. "Key to this transaction was the ...

Abu Dhabi opens investment doors

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
Despite having 9 per cent of the world's proven oil reserves, Abu Dhabi, the biggest of the seven United Arab Emirates (UAEs) is still looking for outside investment to transform itself into an international capital city, industry-hub, and tourism Mecca. ...

Angels targeting SMEs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... who in turn are much smaller than their private equity big brothers. Their size makes them ideally suited to work with the SME sector, a sector often overlooked even though it accounts for half of Australia's jobs and three-quarters of our jobs growth ...

English FX specialist turns local

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... to banking institutions that have traditionally been the dominant players in the forex sector. The company aims to target SME and corporate clients that focus on importing and exporting in the Asia-Pacific region, along with financial planners and private ...

Taggart partners with Zurich to reach home-based business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
The Taggart Group has partnered with Zurich to distribute general and life insurance products to home-based business throughout Australia via a direct distribution website. The website, called www.homebasedbusiness.com.au, is only in its early phases ...

Asset finance companies lose lending share

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
... companies are losing market share in their biggest market segment, business lending, as the banks make an aggressive push for more SME and middle market business. According to KPMG's 2006/07 survey of finance companies, released yesterday, finance company ...

Lifestyle banking at your service

BankWest joins the growing list of banks and wealth management firms eager to retain customers and win new ones by providing finance-related services in a more relaxed setting, complete with a place to read, cafe and even a mini-shop to buy office stationery. ...

ING revamps corporate and SME super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
ING Australia has made sweeping changes to its corporate and small to medium size enterprises (SME) super products including extended income protection cover, capped fees and a user-friendly PDS. "The changes we have implemented are focussed on simplifying ...

Sub-prime 20/20 hindsight

Alan Greenspan, former Fed chief and financial guru, the man who can rock Wall Street with a throwaway line, has admitted he didn't smell the sup-prime coffee during his tenure as Federal Reserve Chairman. Greenspan ran the central bank for more than ...