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FSR style licensing regime for mortgage brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Mortgage brokers can expect to face a new licensing regime as early as next year that will align regulation of the mortgage broking industry with rules that prevail in the financial planning industry. Ian Clyde, chair of the Uniform Consumer Credit ...

Reverse mortgage sector picking up pace

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
In the first comprehensive study undertaken on the Australian reverse mortgage industry, actuarial firm Trowbridge Deloitte reported that the sector had doubled its value in the last 18 months as the reverse mortgage products gained traction. The study ...

Derivative Fitch rates structured products

Fitch Ratings has launched what it claims is the first ratings agency specialising in the global credit derivatives market, which is fast approaching the $44 trillion (US$33 trillion) mark thanks to the rising demand for structure products. The new ...

Compliance gets interactive: Vignette

Phone records, emails and reports are all great ways to keep up with compliance legislation but IT group Vignette has raised the bar by pushing web capture technology as a better alternative to monitor customer interaction and minimise fraud. Vignette ...

Slow tech roll-outs putting off tech-savvy Gen Y

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
A workplace planning and culture specialist has found that the slow implementation of new communications technologies by financial services providers is impeding staff performance and damaging employee attraction and retention, particularly for tech-savvy ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
The US release of key retail sales data for September showed that while there was a 0.4 per cent fall in sales most of this was due to the 9.3 per cent reduction in petrol station sales due to falling fuel costs since July. Consequently, excluding fuel ...

Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
ANZ is to double its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) business volumes to $2.2 billion using a deal offered through Resonance Funding Series 2006-1, a special purpose vehicle that will bundle a coupon rate through 110 corporate loans held by the ...

MapInfo plots the market's future

A mapping software group which enables banks in the US to forecast demand for financial services based on postcodes is making an aggressive push into Australia to provide similar software products to local banks and insurers. MapInfo has grown from ...

Praemium adds GPS for planners

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
Listed portfolio administration providers, Praemium, have signed an agreement together with technology providers, Customer Acquisition and Retention Management (CARM) to make their guided planning systems (GPS) tool available to planners. Under the ...

You are how you spend, not your age

Age is not the defining factor for how consumers spend on financial services, according to a leading demographics expert who argued that labels such as Gen X, Gen Y and Baby Boomers were outmoded and ineffective. Ex-KPMG consumer behaviourist, Ross ...