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US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... In one program, it decided to give favorable lending terms not just on the best investment grade bonds, but also on securities that are just barely investment grade. "It has made financing available to non-bank primary dealers at the discount rate. It ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... around 24bp lower before the minor rally mid March. Short-lived optimism following the unveiling of the Fed's Term Securities Lending Facility program (TSLF) drove yields 17bp higher to 3.42 per cent - a yield not seen since the disinflation scare of ...

ASF appoints exec director

... and other stakeholders to develop solutions and regain investor confidence in Australian residential mortgage-backed securities and other products.

Deutsche recruits Khamphet as VP

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... She holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University and a Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Adviser charged on $48k theft

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... stealing $48,000 from a former client. The sentence was the result of a joint investigation conducted by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Western Australia Police Major Fraud Squad. De Boer pleaded guilty to the allegation ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... equities trading platform, AXE Electronic Communications Network (ECN). AXE ECN is a fast, low cost way of trading securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers within the pool of members. Credit Suisse joins Citi ...

Doja faces jail time

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... three years and eight months imprisonment in the Sydney District Court following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into Progressive Investment Securities and Capital Investments Group (Aust). On 30 November ...

Short selling faces revamp

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... practice is treated in the US. The US first began tightening their regulation around short selling in 2005 when the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established what is known as the Regulation SHO to target "naked" short selling where the ...

Brushing up market integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Amidst recent shake-ups in securities lending, director share trading, margin loans and short selling, IFSA and ACSI have joined forces to outline their views on how market transparency and disclosure should be rendered. According to the Investment ...

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services has purchased the institutional custody portfolio of Nordea, one of the largest Nordic banks with $342.5 billion in assets under custody. According to a JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services (JPMorgan), the deal ...