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Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... government's confidence in financial reform and liberalization is also growing. With more than A$1.46 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and around a A$338 billion current account surplus they probably need to encourage capital outflow.

Hello kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2007
... China's gigantic state investment arm China Investment Corp (CIC), set up to make use of its huge and ever-growing foreign exchange reserve for overseas investment, was launched over the weekend. Following legislature approving the special issuance of ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... financial markets are among the largest, fastest growing and most sophisticated in Asia." Our nation's equity, debt, foreign exchange and derivatives markets have doubled in size in the past five years to reach A$100 trillion in turnover in 2005-06 the ...

APRA appoints new head of research

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... Graduate School of Management as a senior lecturer in finance and at Macquarie Bank as a quantitative analyst in foreign exchange derivatives. Her work has also been published in a number of leading academic journals. In a release, APRA said it intends ...

ING hires former CFS currency exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... currency exposures for international strategies. "Dan is an experienced professional with strong knowledge in foreign exchange products, their application to hedging and trading strategies and associated risk management," said Eric Siegloff, ING's Investment ...

World's biggest fund eyes Aus resources

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... Yuan ($97 billion dollars) will be the world's largest state-owned investment company, with AUS$1.6 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to play with. "One of the big question marks over it is whether it might be used in a way to help secure China's ...

Alternatives rewrite custody

... with their clients. "In terms of product development, we are looking at prime broker services, emulation, more foreign exchange. These are all market innovation products that we think clients in the interim are looking for," said Richard Coia, head of ...

Macq enters forex market

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
Macquarie has purchased 51 per cent of fast-growing online foreign exchange provider OzForex, allowing it to offer tailored foreign exchange services to its 670,000 retail customers. The purchase means OzForex will become the recommended supplier of ...

Analyse this: Dow Jones

... algorithmic trading strategies that can analyse and react to news that can affect the prices of equities, derivatives, foreign exchange and fixed-income instruments. "Dow Jones is revolutionising how news can be analysed and acted upon by algorithmic ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... 0.8212/13. It traded between a low of $US0.8216 and a high of 0.8213 during the local morning session. St George Bank foreign exchange trading manager Stuart Moore said the Australian dollar had opened higher on the back of news overnight that UK's central ...