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Former CBA exec takes over at Optus

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... over the reins from Allen Lew, who led Optus since October 2014. Lew will oversee parent company Singtel's operations in Thailand from April 2020, taking on the newly-created position of chief executive of group strategy and business development and ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... meeting - that came at about the same time as similarly surprising cuts from the Reserve Bank of India and the Bank of Thailand - while at the same time not discounting negative interest rates and/or quantitative easing. While most are still speculating ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... in three years to 1.59% from a high of 1.94% in April this year. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), the Bank of Thailand (BOT) and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) surprise moves towards increased monetary policy accommodation on August 7 supports ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... meeting. This is bigger than market expectations for a 25 bps reduction and followed May's 25 bps rate cut. The Bank of Thailand (BOT) snipped 25 bps off its key policy interest rate to 1.50%, surprising financial markets which expected it to keep ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... investing in Asia is not just about China, Hong Kong-based Treves pointed out. ASEAN, which includes Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, is the third most populous region and the sixth largest economy in aggregate. Even before the trade ...

Global manager appoints Aussie equities lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... 15 years with the team. She moves into the role as Robert Penaloza leaves to start as Aberdeen Standard's head of Thailand. Lopez was previously the deputy head of the team. She joined ASI as an analyst in 2004 from Willis Towers Watson. She was ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... to the December quarter, outperforming its peers: over the same period, Indonesia grew by 5.2%; Malaysia by 4.7%; and Thailand by 3.7%. It would only get better. S&P predicts GDP growth to accelerate to 6.5% in 2020, 6.6% in 2021, and 6.7% in 2022. As ...

NPP chair breaks down rollout

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... the NPP conducted by SWIFT which successfully tested instant cross-border payments involving banks in China, Singapore, Thailand and Australia as an indication of the NPP's international potential. When asked about the RBA applying pressure to the banks ...

CCIV consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... enable Australia to export its management products to participating countries, which include Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Thailand without too much red tape. In June 2018, both houses of Federal Parliament passed the Asia Region Funds Passport bill. ...

Melbourne boutique hires deputy CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... MIT graduate and started her career at Thailand's central bank. She worked in investment risk management at Bank of Thailand where she pioneered a balance sheet risk management approach linked to how a central bank conducts its monetary policy and ...