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RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... - without government intervention - consumers may be left at the mercy of the big banks as the only remaining mortgage lenders. "The RMBS market is dying on the vine," said Greg Medcraft, chief executive of the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF). ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... than 230 points. While many financial services companies logged steep declines during the session, government-sponsored lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were among those hardest hit. Investors are worried that the mortgage finance companies will have ...

Sovereign bonds bouncing back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... debt market in the region. The quality of the countries dominating the new issues may however not be enough to convince lenders to dive back into the market, being Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Despite the sovereign debt issues recovery so ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... cents or 0.52 per cent to $26.84. Making news this morning, Babcock & Brown (B&B) jumped after the investment firm said lenders had removed the market capitalisation review clause linked to its debt facilities. B&B gained 84 cents, or 13.31 per cent ...

Franchise banking attract planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... groups need additional funding, and that's when CBA's banking unit for planners comes in. Creighton said that unlike other lenders that could only lend around 1.7 to 2.5 times multiple of a planning practice's recurring revenue, the bank could lend up ...

Schroders launches geared global fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... to a geared version of the firm's successful global equity fund. The Schroders Geared Global Active Value uses external lenders to leverage investor exposure to its Global Active Value fund, which was launched in September 2005 and received a 'recommended' ...

SMSFs take up instalment warrants

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... [instalment warrants are] quite attractive to the right trustee, [but] it has been a frustration to trustees to find adequate lenders to assist them in this." Justin Sadler, SuperConcepts national sales and marketing manager, agreed that instalment warrants ...

Deloitte warns against split regulation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2008
... Green Paper on financial services and credit reform but warned against separately regulating mortgage and non-mortgage lenders. Phil Hardy, Deloitte banking and finance specialist, said the firm was concerned minister for superannuation and corporate ...

SEQUAL appoints first chief

Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) appointed Kevin Conlon as their first chief executive officer. "The SEQUAL Board determined that SEQUAL had developed to the point where a full-time CEO was needed, and decided that Conlon ...

FBI sting catches $2.4bn mortgage fraud

... capital available to the Australian system and tightened the credit requirement of banks - which has a flow-on effect on all lenders, borrowers and the end consumers. Admittedly, Australia is unlikely to witness a landmark case similar to 'Operation ...