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Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... Investment Corporation), we participated in their bond aggregator issuances where we effectively provided cheaper refinancing for organisation building new affordable housing," he says, adding that Cbus wants to participate in other initiatives in the ...

Chief economist update: Steady as it was, steady it will be

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... little excitement. It's steady as it was... The ECB kept monetary policy unchanged. "The interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.00% ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... monetary policy settings unchanged at its 12 December Governing Council meeting. "...the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.00% ...

Chief economist update: Arrivederci Signor Draghi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2019
... the asset purchase programme (APP), (iv) modifications to the modalities of the new series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO III), and (v) the introduction of a two-tier system for reserve remuneration." Draghi was listed as the 8th ...

Chief economist update: The greatest central banker of modern times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... the asset purchase programme (APP), (iv) modifications to the modalities of the new series of targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO III), and (v) the introduction of a two-tier system for reserve remuneration." But Super Mario is getting ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... decided to lower the interest rate on the deposit facility by 10 basis points to -0.50%." The interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the rate on the marginal lending facility will remain unchanged at their current levels of 0.00% and 0.25% ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... do much more stimulation. Whatever happened to Abe's three arrows? The European Central Bank's (ECB) main refinancing rate had been at zero since March 2016 and while it had ended QE in December last year, it's launching TLTRO III (targeted ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... dynamics. So much so, the ECB is now canvassing fresh policy initiatives even before TLTRO III (targeted longer-term refinancing operations) comes into operation this coming September.

Home buyers lack basic financial concepts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... 40% turn to digital resources. Forty-one percent of the home buyers surveyed admitted that they did not know what refinancing is. Despite the significant gaps in financial literacy among home buyers, 43% of respondents considered themselves financially ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... payments from maturing securities. The ECB also announced the launched of a new series of quarterly targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO-III) designed to "help to preserve favourable bank lending conditions and the smooth transmission of ...