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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... points, or 0.08 percent, to close at 2,155.09. LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index hit a fresh 7-week closing high, buoyed by banks after UK interest rates were left on hold and supported by oils which rose with near-record crude prices. The FTSE 100 closed ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
... to decide on the buyback of shares from Orica. Yesterday, the Australian stock market closed a little weaker as the major banks ended mixed and the big miners weakened. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 7.8 points to 5096.9 while the all ordinaries ...

AXA provides more lending facilities

... offer more choice for their clients," he added, explaining that some finance brokers might be tied to just two to three banks which doesn't really give advisers many options. Thomas also pointed out that after a one-year tendering process they picked ...

Banks burdened by regulatory overkill

Too much regulation pose a serious health risk to banks and other finance companies around the world, according to the latest survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI). Australian respondents of the ...

Grange number one for credit linked notes: AsiaRisk magazine

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2006
... institutions in Australia. AsiaRisk magazine asked end users of derivatives and structured credit products to rank their three best banks in the past 12 months for specific products across four categories - interest rates, currency, credit and equity ...

Genworth study uncovers $41.9bn graduate mortgage market

... $41.9 billion over the next 12 months. Genworth, which provides mortgage insurance products to many of the country's major banks and financial institutions, commissioned researcher Datamonitor to find the property buying behaviour of students who have ...

Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

... enterprise risk services arm and part of the team that designed the internet banking services for two of the country's major banks, said, "The whole industry is changing and will continue to do so in the next eight to ten years. If you look at the banks ...

Online banking rules: Commonwealth

... emails circulated requesting the recipients to send their banking details to a site that pretended to be the bank. The major banks have partly addressed this fraudulent exercise by putting in place a policy to correspond with clients strictly via non-internet ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
... interest rates underscores the prevailing market apprehension over what appears to be a concerted effort by many central banks around the world to rein in inflationary pressures by reducing excess liquidity. Investors fear that this synchronised tightening ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 43.74 points at 2091.32. LONDON - UK shares closed lower, pressured by weak telecoms and banks as investors eyed approaching inflation figures. The FTSE 100 index closed down 34.3 points at 5620.9. FRANKFURT - The DAX ...