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Cryptocurrency service providers now regulated: AUSTRAC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... agency looks to mitigate criminal risk in the sector. AUSTRAC's new suite of cryptocurrency laws will regulate digital currency exchange providers. The laws ensure these exchanges now face the same regulatory requirements of other regulated financial ...

WAM Capital founding director resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... and is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at UTS. She is also an industry advisory board member at the Australian Digital Currency Association and deputy chair of the Australian Computer Society's blockchain technical committee. "The board is delighted ...

FIIG Securities goes global, appoints chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... global footprint for the group." Over the last 20 years, FIIG Securities has made thousands of Australian and foreign currency corporate bonds available to its Australian investor base. It has originated more than 45 Australian-dollar denominated corporate ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... versus the greenback this year to date (after recording a 3.1% increase in 2017). It goes without saying that the Japanese currency's appreciation alone would give America a competitive advantage in its bilateral trade with Tokyo as "Made in Japan" products ...

Chief economist update: The euro's doing Trump's work in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
... another 3.6% versus the greenback this year, on top of its 13.8% gain in 2017. Never mind Trump, this alone calls for a currency war for as the latest HIS Markit Economics flash Eurozone PMI shows, "Eurozone expansion slows to weakest since start of ...

Former UniSuper investment analyst joins AustralianSuper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... worked in the portfolio analysis and implementation team for the $65 billion fund, covering tactical asset allocation, currency overlay, in-house trading function, fund manager research, equity research, investment reporting, risk monitoring, fund rebalancing ...

Australia's first OTC trading desk for digital currencies opens

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
Australian crypto investors wanting to execute large digital currency trades will have an over-the-counter trading desk to go to from next week. Sydney-based Bitcoin and digital currency exchange Independent Reserve will go live with Australia's first ...

FinTech Australia appoints interim chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... driven the fintech agenda across the nation, resulting in real, positive change in areas such as crowdfunding, digital currency regulation and open data." "We started with 52 founding members - today we have well over 200, with strong connections across ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... Making sense of key economic data While already on an uptrend, S&P Global Ratings upgrade of Russia's foreign foreign currency long-term and short-term sovereign credit ratings to investment grade of 'BBB-/A-3' from the junk level of 'BB+/B' on 23 February ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... picture than from the equity market and it's been allowed to persist because of this enormous QE." Munro is buoyed by local currency emerging market bonds which are above domestic inflation and have real yields. He believes a lot of people are assuming ...