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Today we wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... investors digested more US Federal Reserve monetary easing and an EU deal to give the European Central Bank (ECB) supervisory powers over the banking sector. Sentiment was soothed somewhat as the European Union also cleared long-delayed bailout funds ...

Insider trading gets former J.P. Morgan staffer jail

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... message to the business community is simple: insider trading will not be tolerated. ASIC has the systems, the people and the powers to detect and prosecute breaches," Gibson said. The matter was prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. ...

CBA responds to mobile banking demand

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... uptake with around 700,000 downloads and it has now processed more than $3 billion in transactions in 2012. Mobile now powers 46 per cent of all banking transactions. There has also been increase in online banking with almost one in three Australians ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... be lotsa lotsa admonitions, pre-conditions, sanctions, analyses, debates, discussions - heck even more summits - but the powers-that-are wouldn't let the weakest link break. Certainly, the problems in Europe won't go away anytime soon and financial markets ...

ASIC consults on code approval under FOFA

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
ASIC has released its consultation paper on its approach to code approval and relief powers under the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) regulations, outlining plans to take a facilitative approach to the implementation of the reforms. Australia's corporate ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... own devices which, I think is where many have got it wrong. They extrapolate current trends to infinity and expect the powers-that-are to sit, stand aside and just watch their economies burn. But as we've been witnesses to this year, they didn't do that. ...

Spanish fly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... Spanish bonds through its newborn OMTs which investors hope would short-circuit the further spread of the crisis. The EU powers-that-are could then be free to focus on banking and fiscal union. That, at least, is the prevailing rationale. But Europe ...

Welcome to the QE Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012

Treasury paper ignores responsibility: ACFS

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... analysis paper released today that while the changes generally appear warranted, wider ranging consequences of the increased powers need adequate discussion. ACFS research director Professor Kevin Davis said one issue of concern was the fact that regulated ...