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What savings problem?

... management, a statistic that gels well with the industry's push for consumers to seek financial advice and with the government's www.understandingmoney.gov.au initiative. What else would spur them to save more? More tax breaks, higher savings interest ...

Insurance brands to stand in Promina and Suncorp merger

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
The house of brands approach used by Suncorp and Promina will remain in place following the merger of the two, but with some refinement. Suncorp uses the Suncorp brand in banking and wealth management, and the GIO brand in insurance. Promina has a host ...

FSR style licensing regime for mortgage brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Mortgage brokers can expect to face a new licensing regime as early as next year that will align regulation of the mortgage broking industry with rules that prevail in the financial planning industry. Ian Clyde, chair of the Uniform Consumer Credit ...

AFA launches its new website

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... practice management resource centre, e-bulletins and discussion papers on industry issues. The new AFA website can be viewed at www.afa.asn.au

Agribusiness still appeals to lenders

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
Leaving aside the current crisis, bankers still see the rural sector as an attractive market. Westpac's general manager for agribusiness banking Graham Jennings said the bank has added 45 agribusiness bankers to his team in the past 12 months. The bank's ...

APRA to flex its muscle with outsourcing deals

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
Under the terms of new prudential guidelines, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will have the power to conduct onsite inspections of companies undertaking outsourcing work for financial institutions under its supervision. But signaling ...

Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
ANZ is to double its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) business volumes to $2.2 billion using a deal offered through Resonance Funding Series 2006-1, a special purpose vehicle that will bundle a coupon rate through 110 corporate loans held by the ...

Product complexity blamed for systemic errors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
Complex product packages of the kind that have become increasingly common in retail banking are a major cause of systemic problems in the banking system, according to the Banking and Financial Services Ombudsman (BFSO). The BFSO issued a report last ...

Westfield raises US$1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
Westfield Group has taken the opportunity to extend the maturity profile of its funding with a US$1.5 billion issue of senior guaranteed notes that were priced into the US corporate debt market last Thursday. The notes were structured in two tranches ...

Broker mortgage market share keeps rising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
The proportion of broker-originated home loans has risen to 37 per cent and brokers are now writing 45 per cent of new loans, according to the JP Morgan and Fujitsu Consulting Australia mortgage industry report. Brokers' share of originations has grown ...