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Crypto hype drives new partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... SMSF investors with access to five of the top cryptocurrencies in the market: bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, DASH and ripple. Xpress Super chief executive Olivia Long said the new partnership is in response to growing investor demand for digital currencies ...

Global wealth manager champions embattled digital currencies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... digital currencies fell; bitcoin dropped below US$12,000, down from about US$20,000 on 16 December 2017, while ethereum and ripple dropped 24% and 33%, respectively. According to deVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green, 2017 saw the dawn ...

ANZ wealth sale marks end of an advice era

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
ANZ's potential sale of its wealth business will send ripples through the succession plans of many advice businesses now that banks can no longer be considered a "buyer of last resort." During a media briefing discussing the bank's full-year results ...

NAB pursues innovation via global banking alliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... bring to the table." NAB already partners with CIBC to complete international payment transfers between the two banks via Ripple's blockchain technology. "We believe that the technology has the potential to not only deliver real time international payments ...

Instos to increase alternative strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
... Institutional Client Business, Mark McCombe, said recent market volatility is driving a repricing of assets globally. "The ripple effect from recent events is causing investors to actively manage risk and seek alternative sources of returns. Investors ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... space. Australian Crime Commission chief executive, Chris Dawson, said organised crime affects everyone. "Whether it's the ripple effect of illicit drug use on families and the community, the significant financial loss from investment scams or having ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
It's a wrap! QE is. Looking at Wall Street's performance overnight - the Dow and the S&P 500 up more than 1.0%, the Nasdaq up nearly 2.0% (rounded) and the Russell 2000 up nearly 3.0% (rounded) - the men and women at the Fed must be patting each other's ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
Countries must dramatically rethink strategies for avoiding and dealing with financial crises, the Bank for International Settlements says, urging far more focus on fighting debt. The Swiss-based BIS -- dubbed the central bankers' central bank -- has ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
Whoopsie! No more free Chinese take-aways. Yeah, yeah, I know... I'm a day late and a yuan short in bringing to you the latest market moving event in the world's second biggest economy. And yes, I mentioned short because some speculators might be thinking ...

Butterfly effect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013