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Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
The last time we talked about oil, prices were surging and reaching for the skies. Crude oil price started to take off roundabout April this year after OPEC announced that its production cuts - starting on the 1 January 2017 and supposed to last for ...

Macquarie to front Royal Commission

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... Macquarie Group will front the financial services Royal Commission for the first time when the inquiry reconvenes for its final round of public hearings. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne released the list of entities called to give evidence in the seventh ...

Industry fund chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... and the Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund (ACRF) were the subject of failed mergers at the superannuation round of the financial services Royal Commission. Both funds were slammed for wasting a merger opportunity that had clear benefits ...

Train staff on privacy risks: OAIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has called for staff training on how to identify and prevent privacy risks, as financial services recorded the second highest number of data breaches in the third quarter of 2018. In its report of ...

RBA calls for more innovation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... payments next. In February, RBA launched New Payments Platform (NPP) which let consumers make fast payments 24x7, all year round. This was made possible by the central bank's new service called the Fast Settlement Service (FSS), which settled the ...

Beware the fintech Ponzi scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... rates, favourable terms and generous giveaways. The founders usually use funds from the early investors to pay the next round of investors until, eventually, the money runs out. As published in the paper, a few days before Christmas in 2012, a Chinese ...

Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... such as supervising experts, in the operation of the business, she said. APRA and ASIC were slammed at the superannuation round of the Royal Commission for being toothless tigers. APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell said the prudential regulator banned one ...

AFA names 2018 Rising Star

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... Zella's Ryan Skeen, while 2017 finalists Sam Jewell (Tide Financial Services) and Andrew Debono (Announcer) reached the final round again.

Analysts await next Magellan move

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... ASX-listed wealth management companies. J.P. Morgan analysts, led by Russell Gill, don't believe the "management merry-go-round" to be a considerable change. "Remuneration structures remain the same and in our view the changes are not meaningful ...

Banks to answer for Hayne report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's interim report. The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics will commence its next round of public hearings on October 11, 12 and 19. The hearings will provide an important opportunity to scrutinise the bank ...