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Perpetual close to recovering $125m for Mahogany

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2009
... Capital noteholders since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, following its second successful court ruling in the United Kingdom last week. Perpetual (PTCo) commenced legal proceedings six months ago against the UK-based BNY Corporate Trustee Services (BNY) ...

HSBC appoints head of securities services

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... banking, operations management and IT. Bastow has worked across a number of markets in his career including the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. He will relocate to Sydney from Ireland. "Andrew brings a global perspective to this position ...

CBA chair John Schubert retires

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009
... officer in 2001 and was appointed to the role of chief executive in 2003. Turner, who currently resides in the United Kingdom, will be returning to Sydney from early in the New Year and will retire from his current role of chairman of Cobham plc in May ...

Add £50b, will travel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2009

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... financial market watchers recently. Rising long rates have sparked concerns - particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom - that if these were sustained, it could kill off the green sprouts that have emerged over the past three months. But ...

BNP Paribas tech boosts Asian ops

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... the Asian region. The firm's current technology, processes and sub-custody network in use across Europe and the United Kingdom will now be used across Asia as well. "The same technology has been cloned for the Asia-Pacific region and will be supported ...

State Street wins $8b Rio mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... requirements across service providers," said Steve Smit, head of State Street's Investor Services business in the United Kingdom, Middle East and Africa. State Street provides investment services for pension assets globally, including 10 of the largest ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... Everybody and his dog were turning Chinese. Even Australians were China-bound hoping to sell one pair of socks to the middle Kingdom's 1.2 billion people. That's an automatic A$1.2 billion in sales at A$1 each. But it turned out China was selling socks ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Debt Country (GED) Capita of GDP % of GDP S&P US$ Billion US$000 % % Ratings 1. Ireland 2,311 550 811 31.5 AA+ 2. United Kingdom 9,388 154 336 47.2 AAA 3. Belgium 1,618 155 327 80.8 AA+ 4. Hong Kong 660 94 295 14.5 AA+ 5. Netherlands 2,439 146 268 43.0 ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... the tasty aroma of recovery in their soups last night after Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit and ballooning national debt. The fear is that the United States ...