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Responsible lending laws to be revoked

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... reduce barriers to Australia's credit framework as a means to boost the economy. The reforms will remove the responsible lending obligations from the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 aiming to reduce the time and cost of credit assessments ...

Liberman firm backs non-bank lender

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... crisis. The role of technology enabled lenders, such as Lumi, as a competitor and driver of innovation and change in the lending market is being increasingly recognised as vital to the overall health of our economy." Lumi has also added Steve Lambert ...

Westpac hires consumer chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... where he has oversight of the strategy, development, delivery and competitiveness of the bank's portfolio of deposit, lending, card and payment products. de Bruin was also an associate principal at McKinsey in both London and Johannesburg. Commenting ...

ME Bank profits rise in FY20

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
... simple. "We're really comfortable to keep progressing a simple model. We've got five core retail products, most of our lending is home loans and we're increasingly funded by customer deposits," he said. "We think that simple model is the right model. ...

Chief economist update: China's post-pandemic economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... than Japan's 21.1%, America's 13.2%, Australia's 10.6% or Germany's 8.9%. The PBOC lowered its benchmark lending rate just twice so far this year - in February by 10 bps and in April by 20 bps - to 3.85% and cut its reserve requirement ...

Chief economist update: ECB keeps it steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... European Central Bank's (ECB) governing council decided to keep interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0.00%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25%; deposit facility rate at -0.50% - continue to buy up to €1350 billion worth of debt under its ...

Milestone Group appoints APAC lead

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... Mercer Sentinel, where she consulted on issues related to investment operations and implementation; custody, securities lending, asset transitions, FX, unit pricing, middle and back office, compliance and governance. Prior to her role with Mercer, Azer ...

ASIC bans crypto scammer

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... Australian national representative of online cryptocurrency platform BitConnect, as well as its investment scheme BitConnect Lending Platform. ASIC alleges that Bigatton provided unlicensed financial product advice and engaged in conduct which was misleading ...

CommSec adds general manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... Smoker will be looking after the trading and execution function, equity capital markets, and the distribution of the margin lending offering, international equities and exchange traded options for CommSec." Smoker replaces Brian Phelps who departed in ...

ANZ advisers launch advice boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... services over 150 clients. She, Scukovic and Bell are directors and principles at the firm. Feddersen is a director and a lending specialist. In May last year, ANZ decided to stop offering its Prime Access financial planning offering that was launched ...