Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 611 - 620 of 729 results for "Canada"

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... last week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of Canada (BoC) all held monetary policy meetings last week. And guess what? Not a single central bank announced a reduction in interest ...

Macq buys energy advisory firm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... energy advisory firm Tristone Capital Global for $130 million in cash and shares. Tristone Capital Global has offices in Canada, United States, UK and Argentina and provides corporate finance, acquisitions & divestures services, equity capital markets ...

Mobile phone banking on the way

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... The group received the same reception in Germany and are now piloting its mPayments system with RBC, the largest bank in Canada. Mathew Avadiar, a director at Sybase 365 APAC, said that he has been knocking on the doors of local financial institutions ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... I don't really know how news of 150 swine flue related deaths in Mexico and some 40-odd confirmed cases in the US, 6 in Canada, a few in New Zealand and in Spain could morphed into warnings of global catastrophe. The World Health Organisation has raised ...

RBC Dexia tops custody survey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... categories, according to a recent industry survey. RBC Dexia was ranked the top provider of global custody services in the UK, Canada and the "rest of the world" category in the annual R&M Consultants Global Custody Survey. Overall the Canadian custodian ...

AIG subsidiaries to separate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... not at a regional level so again the impact of that for us locally can only be positive." Last week Reuters reported that Canada's Manulife, Singapore's Temasek and the UK's Prudential were all weighing up bids. Following the separation announcement ...

Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... of assets, or $11.2 billion in infrastructure. The target returns is a net 5 per cent above inflation over 5 years. In Canada, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) for instance has several billions invested in infrastructure through ...

Mercer buys Callan Associates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... Callan Associates' US presence complemented the firm's US investment consulting strength along with Mercer's position in Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. ASSET Super, Media Super, ESI Super, Catholic Super and GESB super funds are among Mercer's Australian ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... Japan have already seen re-pricing and are therefore the most attractive regions to look at first. By contrast, the US, Canada and the eastern cities of China won't suffer the brunt of the GFC until the fourth quarter of 2009. "For structural reasons ...