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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... criticised for not passing on the full effect of this week's rate cut to consumers in lower mortgage rates. But with almost 60% of bank funding coming from local deposits it's not hard to see why banks in Australia are desperate to keep the interest ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is a play partly on the growth in consumption in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. In his update to investors, Douglass was candid about predictions he made last year for a faster than expected rise in US interest ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... rise in house prices particularly in highly sought after areas. However, according to a 2015 research paper by the Reserve Bank of Australia, population and general economic inflation are the main long term price drivers for house prices. "The period ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... versus -7.0 in the previous month. Consumer confidence also weakened in the European Union from -5.7 to -5.8 in June. Brexit? Bank of Thailand holds As widely expected, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) kept interest rates unchanged for a 14th straight month ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... in the context that the April figure is the first positive reading since November 2014 might be of significance to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in ts conduct of monetary policy. More so, in light of the recent reacceleration of CPI inflation above its ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... while those anticipating a reduction rose to 11.8% from 11.6 in February. Eurozone household credit The European Central Bank's (ECB) accommodative monetary policy appears to be having their intended effect, lifting credit to households and non-financial ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... year) - the best the Banco Central do Brazil could do was keep interest rates on hold because of high inflation. The central bank kept benchmark SELIC rate unchanged at an 8-year high of 14.25% in March after lifting it a total of 250 bps last year alone. ...

ANZ institutional chief announces departure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... announced its chief executive of international and institutional banking will leave the company. Andrew GA(C)czy joined the bank in 2013 from Lloyds Banking Group, where he was chief executive, wholesale banking and markets. Prior to that he was a senior ...

ING DIRECT announces new CEO

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... also retire as chief executive of ING Retail Banking Asia. He will continue to represent ING on the board of TMB Bank Thailand and act as an advisor in the region. Replacing Richtor at ING's helm will be Uday Sareen, current president of the operating ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... or Britain? Clearly we do not. This is the same logic that Colonial First State, the wealth division of the Commonwealth Bank, uses in Asia: The "Colonial" disappears and the "First State" stays. It makes sense. Accordingly, a stronger sense of Australian ...