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BNP Paribas Securities Services wins mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
AIA has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services as its OTC derivatives operations provider. Under the mandate, BNP Paribas will provide trade management, collateral management and trade repository reporting in Hong Kong and Singapore. "We have been ...

AIA profit boosted by Asian insurance demand

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
AIA has released its global interim 2016 results, showing an operating after-tax profit boost of 16% to US$3.2 billion ($4.4 billion). This reflects a 26% growth in the value of new business to US$2.2 billion and a 14% growth in annualised new premiums ...

LIF expected before parliament this week

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... detail about outcomes of certain points in the framework, such as the specific definition of a policy lapse. In response, a group of advisers and practice owners formed the Life Insurance Customer Group, whose central platform was that the new framework ...

Margin loans keep pace with shrinking customer-base

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... are a further 96,000 investors who intend to take on margin loans over the next 12 months. "Margin lending investors as a group tend to be the most optimistic in their share market outlook, and recent share market falls are seen as investment opportunities ...

Link to replace Veda in ASX200

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Financial data and administration company Link Group will replace credit reporting agency Veda in the S&P/ASX 200 index when the company is acquired by Equifax. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced today that it will remove Veda Group Limited from Australia's ...

CBA risk officer retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
Commonwealth Bank group chief risk officer Alden Toevs will be retiring from his role at the end of the 2016 financial year but will remain at CBA for at least another two years. Announcing the change to CBA's senior executive team today, chief executive ...

Rubik appoints consulting chief from AustralianSuper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
Software provider Rubik Financial has hired a group executive - consulting. James Jackson joins Rubik from AustralianSuper, where he was a senior manager since 2014. Prior to that, he held multiple senior roles at Mercer, most recently head of sales ...

ASX partners with US tech firm for new trade platform

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... significantly faster settlement of equity transactions - potentially in near real-time." The system works by filling "blocks" with a group of recent transactions which are then added to the "chain" in a permanent database, creating a new block in the ...

CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is building on its Sydney innovation lab by launching a second lab in Hong Kong and unveiling plans to expand to London later this year. CBA group executive institutional banking and markets, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, said Hong Kong's ...

More CBA-aligned advisers under scrutiny

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... (ASIC) in 2014. The report found that in 2012, both CFPL and FWL did take reasonable steps to identify which clients of a group of former advisers should have been included in a compensation program. It also found CFPL and FWL took reasonable steps to ...