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Willis Towers Watson director departs for LIC

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... years. She had previously worked with multinational finance and insurance company AIG as an underwriter for financial institutions for three years. Kelly has worked with Willis Towers Watson for more than eight years, most recently as a director of investment ...

Transition away from LIBOR continues

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... rates (IBORs), including the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). ASIC, APRA and the RBA are urging Australian institutions to use the new ISDA protocol and supplement. The international Financial Stability Board also issued a statement welcoming the ...

AUSTRAC releases guidance on wildlife trafficking

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... $20,000. AUSTRAC's chief executive Nicole Rose said organised criminals use services provided by financial services institutions to move and disguise illicit funds. In light of this, she believes the private sector has a crucial role to play in stopping ...

Sydney boutique sharpens focus on HNWs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... EG currently manages about $3.2 billion in property assets, for investors that are mostly pension funds and large institutions. It was founded 20 years ago by Michael Easson (current chair of ASFA), Shane Geha and Adam Geha. It is owned by their families. ...

DTCC launches advisory service

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... insights on operational model designs. DTCC has partnered with Quorsus to provide the consulting services to financial institutions in the form of post-trade technologies, operations, regulatory solutions and infrastructure. The service will initially ...

AAA rating holds on by a thread

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... time being, Fitch said, because of the country's positive track record. "Australia's AAA rating reflects its strong institutions and effective macroeconomic policy framework which has supported a long record of stable economic growth prior to the current ...

APRA rolls out new assessment model

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... and staging. The regulated entities will be tiered according to the level of supervisory attention needed. Tier one institutions are those that have a large systematic impact that could affect financial stability, economic activity and the Australian ...

MySuper funds face new test, member bans

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... until they improve. The government is planning to fund this by increasing the levies paid by regulated financial institutions. Overall, it said it will provide $159.6 million over four years from FY21 to implement the reforms to superannuation. Three ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... income equality, income per capita and unemployment. Natixis chief executive Jean Raby said: "Individuals, employers, institutions, policymakers and asset managers all have an important role to play in addressing these issues, and we believe the 2020 ...

InvestPro appoints Australia lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... operational resilience." InvestPro entered the Australian market in 2017 and has been used by a number of financial institutions to remove unit pricing errors in funds and improve operational oversight and resilience. FRS chief marketing officer Frank ...