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German fintech goes bust, $2.9bn gone

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... been conducted for the benefit of the company," it said. "Wirecard continues to be in constructive discussions with its lending banks with regard to the continuation of credit lines and the further business relationship, including the continuation of ...

Chief economist update: Japan on the mend but BOJ, Abe not taking any chances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... While it kept interest rate settings unchanged at its 16 June monetary policy meeting, the BOJ increased the size of its lending packages to around US$1 trillion from May's US$700 billion. The Japanese government was also waxing optimistic - noting ...

ASIC warns funds to clean up adverts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... funds that have made comparisons to term deposits have included property syndicates and private credit including mortgage lending, a source said. "ASIC will continue to monitor the advertising and disclosure by managed funds during COVID-19. We are aware ...

Property yet to show COVID-19 pain

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... last quarter. "However, this is prior to markets showing the impact of COVID-19," he said. Kelly added that with the new lending to household data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, lending to households for investment in dwellings decreased ...

Collapse of REITs spells opportunity: SG Hiscock

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... Vicinity's book value last year) are supportive." The COVID-19 environment in Australia has drastically improved, Berry said, lending REITs to improved incomes (albeit at lower levels) and distributions into 2021. "Investors should be seeing this as ...

Complaints abound during COVID-19: AFCA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... will not be covered which will lead to disputes." Untersteiner added AFCA also expects to see an increase in responsible lending complaints, disputes relating to scams, and a rise in business interruption insurance complaints, and additional complaints ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone contraction heads from mild to severe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... March in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The following month, it lowered the interest rate on TLTRO III - emergency lending to banks - and announced a new series of non-targeted pandemic emergency longer-term refinancing operations (PELTROs) to ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... industry-super-owned fund manager's credit team has about $500 million to deploy in the year ahead, eyeing opportunities in lending to mid-sized companies that will be forced to refinance after the COVID-19 crisis. IFM's credit team manages about $7.5 ...

Investment manager launches income fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... originates and manages investments across the full credit spectrum including corporate bonds, bank loans, private direct lending and asset-backed finance, as well as other alternative asset classes such as private equity, real estate and infrastructure. ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... sustainability alignments, where we would like to take longer-term equity holdings in listed sense," he said. He also sees direct lending as an immediate opportunity. "There are a lot of things we have looked at in the past but just because we couldn't ...