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Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
The Australian market looks set to open lower after a mixed night on Wall Street and falls on major European bourses as the region's leaders met to try to resolve the relentless debt crisis now threatening big nations such as France. At 0800 AEDT on ...

Smaller lenders to take brunt of Basel III reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
Smaller institutions such as credit unions and building societies are likely to be hardest hit by the Basel III capital reforms, said PwC, following the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's release of a discussion paper on the subject. APRA ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
The wealth management industry in Australia and the Asia Pacific is set to outpace the rest of the world in IT investment over the next four years as the need for enhanced internet services and compliance technology fuels spending. According to technology ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
The Australian share market was expected to open stronger after a resurgence on Wall Street overnight as fears eased over Greece's debt crisis. At 0710 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was up 49 points at 4,491. In economic news ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
The Australian share market is expected to open around one per cent lower today after US stocks fell due to fresh concerns about the financial stability of the eurozone. At 0629 AEST, the September share price index futures contract was down 41 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
The Australian stock market has received a positive set of leads from offshore markets, with Wall Street trading higher and oil and metals prices firmer. At 0835 AEDT, the June share price index contract was up 19 points at 4,689 points, on volume of ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Landmark reforms will force global banks to raise their minimum capital requirements by at least double what they are today to avert another financial crisis - but the new rules, if adopted, could damage the smaller institutions. Bank regulators and ...

Westpac and St.George merger ahead of schedule

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... is progressing well. Approval to move to a single Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADI) is largely complete and Basel II advanced accreditation is expected by the middle of this year, she added. This comes after the bank advised its group cash ...

Macfarlane calls for a new regulatory regime

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... goal was to get the financial markets working again, the longer-term goal was a better regulatory structure. He said Basel II was a regulatory system designed to stop banks going broke but did nothing to protect economies. One way for banks to protect ...

Data quality a global problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
According to a new survey by AIM Software, the global financial industry continues to struggle complying with Basel II, Markets in Financial Instruments Directives and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, citing data quality as their biggest problem. The survey ...