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Bendigo finds safe harbour from wholesale storm in retail deposits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... our rating so... a very small fraction of our wholesale funding is sourced overseas." By contrast, Australia's four major banks source about 40 per cent of their wholesale debt funding offshore where the Greek crisis is driving up the cost of money. ...

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... did it. Cyber reports speak of the Germans now being in tight with the French and agreeing to swap a big portion of their banks' holdings of maturing Greek debt with longer maturity (30-years) debt. This is positive - it'll give Greece some air while ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... share market closed a touch higher, led by defensive healthcare stocks and subdued support for the nation's big miners and banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index finished 12.5 points higher, by 0.28 per cent, at 4,474.3 points, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... performances by the healthcare and information technology sectors and supported by rises among the nation's big miners and banks. At 1210 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.4 points, or 0.46 per cent, at 4,482.2 points, while the broader ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite surged 35.29 points (1.33 per cent) to close at 2,688.28. The gains came amid reports that banks and EU officials were moving closer to a plan where the banks would roll over half the money received from Greek debt into ...

Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... EU/ECB/IMF troika and Greece still insist on continuing with this charade. Ok, ok. There was some real good news. French banks agreed to rollover their holdings of Greek debt into 30-year maturities and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged that China would ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... end to a hostile bid from Hong Kong investment company Wah Nam. Atlas Iron was 16 cents lower at $3.27. Among the major banks, National Australia Bank dropped 25 cents to $24.41, Westpac firmed three cents to $21.40, ANZ surrendered 17 cents to $21.30 ...

Masters of Financial Regulation on offer for first time

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... the regulatory industry such as the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. The compliance departments of major banks and accounting firms are also expected to be interested in the course which investigates the policies and principles of regulatory ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... to cause the fall in the first place. Somewhere on blogosphere there was an item mentioning Moody's downgrade of Italian banks because it may cut the Italian government's sovereign debt rating. And so we come full circle to the lingering Greek tragedy ...

CFS super deposit taps demand, relieves wholesale reliance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... funds invested would become part of parent company, Commonwealth Bank's general diversified sources of funding. The big four banks, source 40 per cent of their funding on the wholesale market. The Greek debt crisis has increased the cost of global wholesale ...