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UK to ban platform payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
Payments to platforms from service providers are set to be banned in the UK by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), triggering reactions that the reforms would shift $30 million in costs directly onto consumers. The proposals are contained in a discussion ...

Finance and Treasury Association appoints new CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... "The Board and I are looking forward to working with David. He has the drive and qualities necessary to further build the FTA value proposition for members," said Finance and Treasury Association (FTA) president Paul Travers. "I want being a member of ...

IFSA backs Chile FTA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... access to Chile's growing voluntary and mandatory pension fund system," he said. "In addition, at a structural level, this FTA locks in the capacity to capture future liberalisation at a services and investment level." In 2006, Chile's private pension ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... $9.5 billion the previous year to $9.3 billion as imports from the US rose from $20.5 to $21.4 billion. It was hoped that the FTA would bring $6 billion per year within 10 years to the Australian economy and create an additional 30,000 job but so far ...

Aust govt to support ALP amendments on FTA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
The government will support Labor\'s amendments to the free trade agreement with the United States despite concerns about the impact of the changes, Prime Minister John Howard said today. \"The government has decided that the common sense thing to do ...

Labor to support FTA with US

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
... members of a Senate committee yesterday came down in support of the deal. The party will push for two amendments to the proposed FTA, struck in February, calling for changes to intellectual property provisions and for local content quotas for local television ...

Labor to wait for Senate report on FTA deal: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2004
Labor would not announce its policy on the Australia-United States free trade agreement until the Senate released its report into the deal, federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. Mr Latham, on the fourth day of his pre-election roadshow in ...

Australian-Thai FTA signed

Thailand and Australia today signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with confidence growing it will deepened Australia\'s economic links with South East Asia. Prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and John Howard signed the deal, along with several other ...

Business urged to take advantage of Aust-Thai FTA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2004
Australian businesses that moved quickly to take advantage of the free trade agreement with Thailand would be the most successful, Austrade said today. The agreement, the first Thailand has negotiated with a developed country, was expected to be signed ...

US, Australia to sign free trade deal May 18

The US administration today made its own announcement on the US-Australia free trade agreement (FTA), confirming it will be signed in Washington on 18 May. Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile today announced he would be heading to the US later this ...