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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon, taking a breather after two days of strong rallies. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 39.7 points, or 0.84 per cent, at 4675.2 while the broader All Ordinaries fell 37.8 points, or 0.8 ...

Banks to face liquidity crisis "fire drills": APRA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Starting next year, Australian banks could be subject to "fire drills" that test how well they can cope with a severe market disruption, under new liquidity reporting rules proposed by APRA. APRA has released a discussion paper that proposes major changes ...

Future Fund books 4.2pc loss

FUTURE FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... horizon," the update noted. In the period before the mandates being finalised, assets were invested mainly in Australian bank bills, consistent with the mandate for the former Higher Education Endowment Fund (HEEF), generating annualised returns of 3.5 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
The Australian share market edged up in morning trade, led by the banks, on low volumes during a public holiday in NSW and the ACT. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX 200 was 10.9 points higher, or by 0.26 per cent, at 4254.9 while the broader All Ordinaries ...

QIC's Buckley to expand role

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
QIC's global fixed interest team is being reshuffled after two members resigned to pursue careers at large domestic banks, leaving Susan Buckley, managing director of the team to refocus her efforts on the portfolio and look for their replacements. ...

Banks to tap ATMs for advertising

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Australian bank ATMs could soon be used not just to take cash out but for promos and advertising too, according to an ATM advertising group that has done work for major British banks and is looking to open an office in Australia. i-design, a UK-based ...

FICA names chair

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
The Finance Industry Council of Australia (FICA) elected Duncan Fairweather as the council's chair. Fairweather is an executive director at the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) - formerly the International Banks & Securities Association ...

ASF names former S&P head as CEO

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
The Australian Securitisation Forum has appointed former Standard & Poor's managing director, Chris Dalton, as chief executive. Dalton replaces Greg Medcraft, who was appointed commissioner at Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Mobile phone banking on the way

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
Technology firm Sybase is hoping to pioneer the mass take-up of mobile phone banking in Australia following its successful roll-out of the same technology in Austria and Germany - with a local deal likely in the next 12 months. In 2001, paybox Austria ...

MLC takes earnings hit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
NAB-owned wealth management arm MLC reduced its workforce by 5.4 per cent in the six months to March as bad markets and lower management fees took their toll on half-year earnings. In an ASX half-year statement released this morning, NAB announced that ...