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Opes Prime boosts corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
Prime brokerage services provider Opes Prime has appointed Jennifer Kane to head of corporate and legal affairs as the firm moves to meet its corporate governance and legal compliance obligations. Prior to her appointment, Kane was head of compliance ...

World bank names new chief economist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... appointment, Lin remains vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce of the Committee for Economic Affairs of Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference.

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... communication services, educational tools and a regulatory guide for regulated entities. Bob Debus, the Minister for Home Affairs in the new government, was also there. But discussion about the discovery of the loophole took the shine off the occasion. ...

Asia marching on faster than expected

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Growing intra-region trade within emerging markets is pushing Asia to the centre of world financial affairs faster than we realise. "Fifty per cent of all world trade now has an Asian leg," said Craig Weeks, senior vice president of global trade services ...

Markets not governments set interest rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
... of US fixed-income securities by Asian central banks and petrodollar investors," they said. But while this new state of affairs is great if it lowers market interest rates, the flipside is that it can cause them to rise when things go wrong in ways that ...

Meet the mini-institutions

... particular consumer segment. Baby boomers have more money, more time and more education to manage their own financial affairs than any previous generation. They want to take control of their investments and run their own finances and they need the same ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... more lasse faire," said M N Chaini, vice president of the Indian Merchant's Chamber who is also president of corporate affairs for Reliance Industries, one of India's leading diversified company groups. This new capitalist orientation has unleashed a ...

China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... more than A$3.3 billion of which will be injected into the new CDM fund," Xie said. Zhang Yesui, vice minister of foreign affairs for the Chinese Government, said the CDM fund would be a win-win situation as China would meet its emission targets and ...

Climate change to cost $50bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... result of climate change," Clement Booth, board member of Allianz SE, said. Nicholas Scofield, general manager of corporate affairs, said, "If claims costs continue to this upward trend then it will flow through to premiums for the individual, particularly ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
... Reserve's interest rate cut. "Quite a number of stocks are going ex-dividend today, which I thought would have restrained affairs," Mr James said. "Also, base metal prices are mixed, with oil and gold down on Friday. "There are a few rumours around that ...