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AMP appoints new board member

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2022
... recently as the head of investment banking for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to that, he led J.P Morgan's Financial Institutions investment banking business for 13 years. AMP chair Debra Hazelton commented: "We're delighted to have a financial services ...

Apex Group wins fund admin mandate

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2022
... their investors, but our planet, now and in the future." Octopus Group works with wealth managers, investors and institutions and said its one of the largest owners of renewable energy projects in Australia and Europe, owning some 260 assets on behalf ...

Citi pilots Bitcoin custody service platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022
... custodians are vital to the wider adoption of future digital assets. "It is reassuring to see traditional financial institutions embracing the role of custodians within this asset class. Buy in from both traditional, institutional investors and financial ...

Brookfield raises record amount for ESG fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022
... public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, financial institutions, and family offices. Brookfield itself is the largest investor in the fund. The fund actually exceeded its initial hard ...

Advice requirements confusing, complex: JAWG

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2022
... prescribed. Of note, as previously reported on by Financial Standard, ASFA also called for greater detailing of financial institutions supervisory levies. The body said: "It's incumbent upon regulators to provide genuine transparency and accountability ...

Australian firms spend 3.6bn on financial crimes

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... China and India. The report stated that labour in the form of salaries is the single largest cost component due to institutions hiring more compliance staff since 2019. This is due to a rise in anti-money laundering workloads, evolving financial crime ...

Super industry levies insufficiently detailed: ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... builds confidence within the industry that regulators are functioning well." However, with respect to the Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies, ASFA supposed that it didn't provide sufficient detail for the industry to adequately understand how ...

Cbus snares head of debt from Perpetual

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2022
... oversee external managers in the illiquid credit space and the counterparty credit work carried out on the financial institutions Cbus has exposure to through its trading activities. Moal joins Cbus from Perpetual, where she spent eight years, most recently ...

AZ Sestante launches ESG portfolios

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2022
... includes over 670 strategies, representing around 2600 managed funds. Financial advice firms, fund managers, and institutions that subscribe to the ERIG Index can assess the "greenness" of products. "Advisers are passionate about issues like diversity ...

No more changes to risk commissions: ClearView

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... often the ones most impacted by regulatory change but historically their voice has been drowned out by the large institutions and their industry bodies," ClearView managing director Simon Swanson said. ClearView is calling on Treasury to avoid tinkering ...