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Bank of England launches first system- wide stress test

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2023
... overnight launched its first system-wide stress test to understand the behaviours of banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in volatile financial markets. Recent chaos across UK markets has led to the system-wide exploratory scenario (SWES) ...

ETF explainer: Understanding their structure

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2023
... ETF institutional market - authorised participants and market makers. Authorised participants, typically financial institutions, manage the creation and redemption of ETF units, either transacting on their own account or on behalf of clients, primarily ...

Treasury to scrap advice admin burdens, boosts intra-fund advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023
... providers (qualified advisers) who provide personal advice and Non-Relevant Providers such as advice firms or financial institutions. Design and Distribution Obligations (Recommendations 12.1 and 12.2) will be reworked to "limit the exception to the ...

Zurich, InterPrac, Sequoia back pro-bono advice

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... deliver pro bono advice to individuals living with personal health issues. Through the partnership, the financial institutions will work with the not-for-profit to assist individuals suffering from serious illness or disability. Zurich said its life ...

Treasury proposes upping supervisory levies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023
Treasury has proposed a 1.5% increase in the Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies for the 2023-24 financial year, including a $7.2 million budgetary boost for APRA. Treasury papers revealed the total funding required under the levies in 2023-24 ...

AEP, GSFM launch Australian film fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2023
... to $100 million in equity, to be coupled with a bank facility of up to $500 million, arranged and led by financial institutions in the global screen industry. It will be capped at producing 40 original productions and increasing to 55 total projects ...

Supercharging Australia's climate investment action

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... strengthen the framework of mandatory climate-related financial disclosure requirements for large businesses and financial institutions including superannuation funds and investment managers. Abatement strategies utilised by these players will also be ...

Government divulges vision for superannuation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 APR 2023
... national consensus, shift the focus from savings to retirement income, and elevate service standards for major financial institutions. At an Industry Super Australia (ISA) pre-budget event, Jones said that the government wants to form a national consensus ...

SVB, Signature Bank securities up for sale

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
A BlackRock subsidiary has been tasked with disposing the mortgage-backed assets of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank that collectively amount to US$104 billion ($156.2bn). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation recently announced that it retained ...

Global economic growth hits 20-year low: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... come into focus and fears of contagion have risen across the broader financial sector, including nonbank financial institutions." Global growth is forecast to decline from 3.4% in 2022 to 2.8% in 2023, assuming that recent financial sector stresses are ...