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Crypto companies halt withdrawals

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2022
International cryptocurrency platforms Celsius and Binance temporarily suspended customer withdrawals. Yesterday, the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, suspended withdrawals on the Bitcoin network. In a statement, Binance said: "This is ...

ETFS Physical Gold to be split 10:1

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
... the share price of GOLD is prohibitively high. We are conducting this split in response to this feedback." "The split will let smaller investors buy GOLD more freely. The current price per share - currently above $230 - can be challenging for smaller ...

Deutsche Bank, DWS raided over greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
... on the offices on Tuesday morning without warning and interviewed several staff. The former executive, Desiree Fixler, was let go from DWS after less than a year in the role. She later told The Wall Street Journal that the group's fund managers ignored ...

AWOF unitholders to vote on trustee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
AMP has confirmed it has received a letter from shareholders requesting AMP Capital be removed as trustee of its Wholesale Office Fund. In a statement to the ASX this morning, AMP said certain unitholders have requested a meeting to vote on a change ...

Super home buyer scheme fails to move the needle

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... in whatever they want, then this policy has delivered in spades. Of note, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that you let people use their own money and don't lock it away from them. But, if this policy is about addressing housing affordability and ...

Superannuation not a super solution to housing affordability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
... is a key part of his government's plan. On his policy, Morrison said: "This is how you help with the cost of living." "You let them use their own money, you don't lock it away from them where someone else is in control of it." BuyersBuyers co-founder ...

Westpac architects new institutional banking platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
Westpac has begun work on a new transactional platform for institutional clients, using UK technology provider 10x Banking to provide the core technology. The two companies have signed a letter of understanding that's built on an existing three-year ...

Senator Bragg defends domestic crypto ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
In a letter to ASIC, Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has welcomed foreign crypto ETF competition but not before domestic products have become widely available. Bragg asked the regulator to confirm it will not provide an uneven playing field for foreign ...

US Federal Reserve enacts biggest rate hike in 22 years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
... policy mistake." "It is now engaged in the most delicate of central bank high-wire acts." Miller added that the Fed may have let inflationary expectations escape the realm of being within its ability to comfortably manage without a serious risk of a ...

Super's defense against economic volatility

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2022
At the ASFA Conference, former deputy prime minister and Cbus chair Wayne Swan called superannuation a great triumph of social-democratic policy as it's become a major source of social stability. The world has become a more dangerous place, its ...