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Consortium eyes Link Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... approvals, including receiving the go-ahead from the Foreign Investment Review Board, due diligence and securing debt financing. Link chief executive John McMurtrie is due to retire early 2021. QBE executive Vivek Bhatia will take over the top job. A ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... rates to help the economy recover. Instead, the PBOC will maintain reasonable liquidity, money supply and aggregated financing, while avoiding flood of liquidity. It could afford to do so given relatively better economic and financial market conditio ...

DTCC launches advisory service

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... services, and institutional trade processing businesses. It also focuses on complying with regulatory bodies Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) and Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), as well as providing best practices ...

Cbus appoints new investment leadership role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... Melbourne slated to be completed by 2023. Cbus recently committed $950 million to equity raisings, debt financed and project financing in a move it said would assist Australia's economic recovery from COVID-19. It has also allocated a further $850 million ...

Westpac reaches $1.3bn AUSTRAC deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... transactions related to possible child exploitation, and two further failures to assess the money laundering and terrorism financing risks associated with correspondent banking relationships. Westpac chief executive Peter King apologised for the bank's ...

Portfolio insurance provides strong protection: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... addition, it found that both portfolio insurance strategies provide strong protection against downside equity risk in financing a minimum level of retirement income. "The target annuitisation fund offers a solution to connecting pre-retirement investment ...

State Street cops $1.25m fine from AUSTRAC

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... times its obligation to report international transfers to the agency under Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing laws. Under the law (section 45 (2) of the AML/CTF Act 2006), any person who sends or receives an instruction to transfer ...

Former analyst gets three year sentence

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... December. At one point in 2017, it was up 1,383% since the start of that year. An investigation by AFR revealed unusual financing arrangement with FC Capital; many businesses featured in videos on its website had never actually paid anything to the company ...

Household debt a major risk: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... economy," the RBA said. "In Australia the housing rental stock is mostly owned directly by the household sector and so debt financing is owed directly by households, while in many other countries rental housing is owned by corporations, the government ...

ASIC drops CBA investigation

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... been dropped. In August 2017, AUSTRAC alleged the bank had contravened the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 more than 53,000 times, after it failed to report cash transactions worth $625 million to the financial intelligence ...