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Sargon Capital to be liquidated

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... it by taking control of now-sold Sargon's share in Sequoia Financial Group, and Madison Financial Group), earlier this week indicated that its preference is to recover amounts owed to it at subsidiary-level (referring to eight Sargon subsidiaries ...

Economic impact worst since WWII: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... compared to the first." Levine said the government's JobKeeper wage subsidy scheme - which made its way through parliament this week - has provided certainty to many Australians, with the firm's first ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Rating taken since ...

ClearView promotes resilience

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... the firm over the next two years, with expense reductions not out of the question. In a document filed with the ASX this week, ClearView said it had assessed a range of stress test scenarios covering the businesses over the next two years, including ...

Not safe to launch: APRA

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... the delay on launching when it lifts the hold. The regulator has been busy sending off missives to regulated entities this week. To begin the week, it warned authorised deposit taking institutions and insurers that it expected them to limit discretionary ...

CBA appoints chief economist

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... responsibilities as the bank's head of global economic and markets research. Stephen Halmarick nabbed the new role this week, having been with the bank's research team since January 2018. He takes over from Michael Blythe, who spent 24 years ...

US faces deepest recession on record

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... record, according to Bank of America economists. It comes as about 6.65 million people filed for unemployment in the US this week, in the highest level of claims received by the country's Labor Department in its history. It brings the total number of ...

Bigger balances, bigger blow: Elia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... with its administrator, Link, to ensure it is ready for the onslaught. However, speaking to Financial Standard earlier this week, Link chief executive John McMurtrie said meeting the government's deadline will be tough. McMurtrie said the current ...

Shortseller ordered to pay $900,000 by court

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... claims were false and won in the judgement handed down in February. Damages were to be declared in March. The court, this week, set the costs payable by Bonitas and Wiechert at $530,201 and damages at $368,974, declaring they had contravened both the ...

Chief economist update: Great Scott! Mighty Mo to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... tally is now $320 billion, equating to 16.4 per cent of GDP." Wait there's more... to come. "More will be announced this week as the government unveils details of its rent-relief measures. Residential and commercial landlords will be banned for six ...

The week that was

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
This week the world gained some clarity as to the true scale of the impact COVID-19 is likely to have which, in turn, made clearer the challenges the financial services industry will face in combating the pandemic's effects. However, greater uncertainty ...