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QTC board appoints former Credit Suisse exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Queensland Treasury Corporation recently welcomed a new board member and the reappointment of its chair, with both directors appointed for a three year term. Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt reappointed Gerard Bradley as chair of QTC, while former Credit ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... market. China, the largest owner of US debt, trimmed its Treasury holdings by $8.2 billion in January, the Treasury Department reported. The actual decline was likely larger considering China reported selling $100 billion of foreign-exchange reserves ...

Standard Life Inv strengthens strategy team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... Brothers Investments as senior economist. He has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and the US Treasury Department. Based in Edinburgh, Faulkner-MacDonagh will report directly to the head of global strategy Andrew Milligan. Wolf will be ...

In the throes of change

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... feature the country's key regulators - ASIC's deputy chair Peter Kell,A APRA's deputy chair Ian Laughlin and the Treasury Department's executive director Jan Harris - on the hot seats to discuss the FSI and MySuper. As in previous years, the FSC invited ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... what we're seeing in the market." The deal follows a two-week US government shutdown and came a day before a Treasury Department deadline to raise the nation's $US16.7 trillion debt limit. Australia's big banks were all firmer with ANZ gaining 15 cents ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... bargaining over whether the Feb. 15 date for the debt limit extension would be a firm deadline or whether the Treasury Department would be allowed to use "extraordinary measures" to extend borrowing beyond that date, as it has done in the recent past". ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... Christine Lagarde warned that a US failure to raise the ceiling could wreak havoc on the global economy, while the Treasury Department said a default could have a "catastrophic" effect on the economy. The comments likely raised the anxiety of some investors ...

US delays tax avoidance law by 6 months

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
The US Treasury Department has postponed a new law designed to crack down on offshore tax avoidance by US citizens by six months. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA) requires foreign banks, insurance companies and asset managers to report ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... as it seeks a bigger share of the lucrative New York-to-London travel market. AIG also gained after the US Treasury Department said it had sold the rest of its stake in the insurer. AIG was bailed out by the government after nearly collapsing during ...

Goldman Sachs CFO to retire

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... the investment banking division where he assumed responsibility for Goldman's financing activities in the treasury department in 1992 and for the controllers department in 1994. From 1998 until 1999, Viniar was deputy chief financial officer. He is the ...