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Transition to IFRS will be smooth; APRA

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on Thursday said it would provide a six month respite period before implementing any prudential amendments after new accounting standards take effect from 1 January 2005. The Australian Accounting ...

BankWest appoints Rodger McArthur as managing director

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2004
Western Australian retail bank, BankWest, on Wednesday appointed senior executive Rodger McArthur as managing director, after he spent the past several months as acting MD. McArthur joined the bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBOS Australia (HBOSA) ...

UBS to discuss enhancements to bond indices

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
UBS Investment Bank Australia said today it is contemplating several enhancements to its UBS Australia Bond Indices. The changes, which are being considered for introduction in January 2005, are designed to update the indices to reflect changes in the ...

Australian-Thai FTA signed

Thailand and Australia today signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with confidence growing it will deepened Australia\'s economic links with South East Asia. Prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and John Howard signed the deal, along with several other ...

HBOS appoints former Westpac exec to head Australian unit

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2004
United Kingdom-based bank HBOS has appointed Westpac Banking Corp\'s former head of institutional banking, David Willis, to head up its new Australian operation. The appointment would take effect from 1 July, and Willis would \"be leading the group\'s ...

AMP reviews Equatorial Mining stake

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2004
AMP Life said on Tuesday it was reviewing its stake in Equatorial Mining, which earlier this year received a massive payout over a failed copper project. Equatorial emerged from a difficult three years in January after reaching a $US101 million ($A145.04 ...

US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

The Federal Reserve held a main short-term interest rate at a 46-year low today in an attempt to keep the US economy humming. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues - the group that sets interest rate policy in ...

ASIC issues stop orders against six debenture prospectuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2004
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued six stop orders on debenture prospectuses since the beginning of the year and yesterday gave guidelines to protect investors. ASIC said today it has been scrutinising recent debenture ...

OECD says recovery slowing in US, eurozone

Economic recovery is on track in the worlds biggest industrialised countries but is slowing somewhat in the United States and the eurozone, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said today. The OECD said its composite leading indicator ...

Newspaper job ads rise 0.3% in March: ANZ

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
The number of Australian newspaper job advertisements in March rose to their highest level since October 2002, an ANZ jobs survey showed. According to the March ANZ job ads survey, the number of newspaper jobs rose by 0.3%, seasonally adjusted, to an ...