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Aussies fear online fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... paper contracts? "Despite the introduction of more comprehensive security measures such as two factor authentication by the banks, there is still a significant proportion of consumers that does not use internet banking due to concerns about security," ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... ready for a new model of restrictions and governance. "Systemically important financial institutions [including investment banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and financial clearing houses] should be licensed to operate in major economies only under ...

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... for a federal housing authority. The US Treasury secretary will coordinate with foreign financial authorities and central banks about establishing similar rescue programs. Limits excessive compensation and bonuses for executives at companies that sell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... mixed, with big financial companies lifting the Dow Jones Industrials index more than 120 points, but worries about smaller banks and parts of the technology sector took much of the market lower. The Dow rose 121.07 points, or 1.10 per cent, to 11,143.13. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... seen local investors pull out a little bit after starting up by about one per cent on open," Ms Saly said. "Most of the banks are doing well and the financial sector is up about half a per cent." At 1204 AEST, Commonwealth Bank was up 55 cents, or 1.25 ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... benefiting the American people, because today's fragile financial system puts their economic well-being at risk. When local banks and thrifts aren't able to function as they should, Americans' personal savings, and the ability of consumers and businesses ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... scenarios - positive and negative - as to the likely outcome. Positive Scenario: Most of the bad debts had been purged from banks' balance sheets. These debts were purchased by the newly created and government-sponsored, Exchange Stabilisation Fund ...

Minnow mortgage manager wants to be big fish

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... bigger end of town Challenger jumped in and massively propelled the consolidation even faster. "And now you have the major banks actively participating in a space that they said they weren't going to participate in, with CBA buying a third of Aussie ...

Greater fool with no shorts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... US$290 billion program to purchase federal agency discount notes from primary dealers and launch an initiative allowing banks to borrow money for the purchase of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper. The Securities and Exchange Commission enacted a temporary ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... investors stormed back into the market, relieved by government plans to restore calm to the financial system by rescuing banks from billions of dollars in bad debt. The Dow rose 368.75, or 3.35 per cent, to 11,388.44. The S&P 500 index rose 48.57, or ...