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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... helped by Obama administration's launch on Friday of a major shake-up of the US housing market, proposing that state-backed lenders are wound up and setting minimum downpayments for buyers. European bourses had fallen earlier in the day amid uncertainty ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
... miner's annual earnings, a result in line with expectations. BHP Billiton had lost 20 cents at $46.56. Australia's major lenders were trading flat, with comments by the Reserve Bank of Australia's governor Glenn Stevens to a parliamentary committee having ...

Bank lends aid to fin planning businesses

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
St.George Bank and other lenders are looking to plug the funding gap in the financial planning industry left by its rivals that have withdrawn from the market. Commonwealth Bank's decision to cease lending to financial planning businesses late last ...

Perpetual raises $170 million for mortgage fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... per cent of total lending to the sector, and financing from alternative sources such as foreign banks and second tier lenders is also disappearing," he said. "This has become a significantly dislocated market and we saw an opportunity for institutions ...

J.P. Morgan makes fresh moves in sec lending

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... first Australian Tri-Party Securities Lending transaction. Tri-party securities collateral management will allow more lenders to accept non-cash collateral against securities or cash lent. This increase in flexibility around acceptable collateral should ...

LUCRF launches community trust

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
LUCRF Super has made charity work a key priority following the establishment a community partnership trust. John Lenders MP, Victorian treasurer and minister for financial services officially launched the trust at an event that was attended by over ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... that the US housing market remains in trouble. Whether the US National Association of Attorneys General finds that home lenders falsified documents and signatures - or not - to justify foreclosing on American properties is moot. It may delay foreclosure ...

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... That's last night. Wall Street up slightly. Data mixed. Never mind the cheaters in Europe. There are still a lot of stupid lenders out there. Bloomberg reports that, "Concern that European governments will struggle to fund deficits diminished as Portugal's ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... EU stress test. The WSJ disclosed that "Europe's recent "stress tests" of the strength of major banks understated some lenders' holdings of potentially risky government debt..." Further, "An examination of the banks' disclosures indicates that some banks ...

ACCC chairman withdraws from merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... deliberations on the merger, noted the press statement. According to mainstream press reports, NAB is one of the four lenders to Austexx, an investment vehicle that Samuel is invested in, and which is the owner of the DFO chain of factory outlet shopping ...