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Industry veteran joins RBC, targets Australian growth

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
RBC Investor and Treasury Services, part of Royal Bank of Canada, announced the appointment of an industry veteran as managing director, head of global client coverage Australia. David Brown joins RBC I&TS with more than 29 years' experience in financial ...

Canada economic growth changes gears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
The financial headlines talked about the Bank of Canada's (BOC) decision last night to raise its benchmark overnight rate by 25 basis points to 1% - and the Bank Rate and the deposit rate by the same to 1.25% and 0.75% - as having taken the markets ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
Unlike the Bank of Canada (BOC) which he headed from 2008-2013, now Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely ...

Not showing: inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... no other than the pound's depreciation since the Brexit vote. But even the BOE consider this as temporary. The Bank of Canada (BOC) justified its recent rate hike to the lagged effect of the transmission mechanism of monetary. The BOC wanted to pre-empt ...

Is the Fed the victim of its own success?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
... central banks must target future inflation by anticipating future deviations from target." These were the words of Bank of Canada (BOC) governor Stephen Poloz that helped justify the Canadian central bank's decision to lift interest rates by 25 basis ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... have to rise all that much further to get to a neutral policy stance." It was different across the border. The Bank of Canada's (BOC) decision to lift its benchmark rate by 25 bps to 0.75% overnight came as no surprise to financial markets. This was ...

AMP Capital names key real assets hires

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... infrastructure in Europe and Latin America. Before this role, Jones was director, equity research at the Royal Bank of Canada. Oliver Reiff, meanwhile, has been appointed portfolio manager and analyst for AMP Capital's global listed real estate team ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... United States account for more than 75% of Canada's total exports and over 66% of its imports. This puts at risk the Bank of Canada's (BOC) optimistic outlook for the economy. Exports account for about 30% of Canada's GDP. In its monetary policy meeting ...

RBC secures custody mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... provider with more than $1.25 billion in funds under management. The investor and treasury services arm of the Royal Bank of Canada was recently appointed as custodian and administrator for Uniting Financial Services. UFS is the treasury and investment ...

IFM appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... appointment of a new director to its board. Based in Canada, Carol Gray is also a director at the American Express Bank of Canada and the Infrastructure Ontario and Land Corporation. She was previously president and general manager at Equifax Canada ...