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CFS, UniSuper win customer satisfaction nods

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... organisation. The awards tracked the customer satisfaction, engagement and loyalty of over 50,000 respondents. Beyond Bank won Bank of the Year, while Commonwealth Bank was the Major Bank of the Year. OnePath won the Major Risk & Life Insurer of the ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... While many, if not most, of its central bank peers - led by the Fed -- are pushing back against inflation concerns, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) cannot seem to drive growth in the country's consumer prices significantly beyond zero. In his press conference ...

Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... Capital, EIM and Goldman Sachs. Fulton has 18 years of experience. Prior to the Investec CAF role, he worked as Commonwealth Bank of Australia as head of middle market private equity lending, and at Deutsche Bank in London. Both have experience in Australian ...

Government to strengthen FMI

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... Australia's financial regulators. The Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) consisting of APRA, ASIC, Treasury and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) previously handed a report to government with recommendations to increase their powers to intervene ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... investors are revving up purchases in anticipation of booms to come. With interest rates at record lows and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) pledging that they will remain at current levels until 2024, those who can afford to borrow are borrowing... ...

LIBOR phased out by year end

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... regulators expect institutions to cease the use of LIBOR in new contracts before the end of 2021. ASIC, APRA and the Reserve Bank of Australia have reiterated the importance of ensuring a timely transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate ...

KPMG names risk consulting partners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... supervision of two major Australian banking groups and spend over a decade in risk management roles in the UK at Deloitte, Royal Bank of Scotland and IBM. "The financial services sector faces significant challenges and opportunities in areas such as ...

Chief economist update: RBA cash rate on ice until 2024

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... Except to reinforce its message that interest rates will remain at record lows "until 2024 at the earliest", the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) June board meeting was largely a ho-hum affair. As expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings ...

Chief economist update: The UK's going OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... services PMI went up from 61.0 in April (final reading) to 61.8 in May - a 91-month high (October 2013). These justify the Bank of England's (BOE) decision at its May 5 monetary policy committee meeting to slow bond purchases to £3.4 billion a ...

Last day to vote in MAX Awards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... MORE Aware Super - Rebrand Colonial First State - Baillie Gifford partnership Fidelity - 'Flourish' Suncorp - Bank of the Year MARKETING CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR - CONSUMER NGS Super - NGS onboarding program ANZ Financial Advice - Financial advice ...