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RBA hires Women's Leadership Institute chair

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
The Reserve Bank will welcome the founding chair of the Women's Leadership Institute Australia as a new part-time board member. In addition to her role at the Women's Leadership Institute, Carol Schwartz is also chair of the Property Male Champions ...

CBA finances wind farm construction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
The Commonwealth Bank is entering a consortium financing the construction of one of Australia's largest wind farms. The bank is co-financing the project with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, CWP Renewables, Partners Group, Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui ...

Non-aligned advisers gifted growth opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
Opportunities for non-aligned financial advisers to provide quality advice are growing as the industry's historically bad behaviour continues to repeat itself. That is the view of the 2016 AFA Practice of the Year Award winner Sam Henderson. Speaking ...

ANZ and Macquarie fined for cartel conduct

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... ultimately affect settlement payments for MYR denominated non-deliverable forward contracts (NDFs). ANZ was a submitting bank for the MYR. Macquarie was not a submitting bank however often initiated discussions between traders and acted as a hub or co-ordinator ...

Ombudsman takes on ANZ fairness role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... at ANZ in the New Year. Joining as customer fairness advisor, Colin Neave will be charged with improving fairness of the bank's products and services for retail, small business and wealth customers in Australia. Neave is currently a Commonwealth Ombudsman ...

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
At long last - after 12 long months of toing and froing speculations - it came to pass. The stars aligned enabling Janet to move nearer from turning almost a decade of abnormal monetary policy into normal. Two days less of a full year, the Fed followed ...

MySuper competition heats up: Rainmaker

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... products operated by not-for-profit funds such as industry super funds, public sector super funds or company super funds. Bank-owned MySuper products or those run by the big four retail banks, grew even faster at 62%. Lifecycle investment strategies ...

ME grows tech capabilities via partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
A global technology firm will provide ME Bank with improved capabilities as part of a newly-founded strategic relationship. ME has engaged Capgemini for a period of five years to deliver technology initiatives across the bank as it develops its digital ...

Equity Trustees flags acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
Equity Trustees is considering an acquisition of a bank's estates business. Sandhurst Trustees - owned by Bendigo and Adelaide Bank - provides investment, funds and estate management, superannuation, commercial loans and custodial services. It is also ...

YBR lending chief departs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... processing data transaction business LIXI. Before YBR and Vow, Brown was head of sales and distribution mortgages at Macquarie Bank and master franchisee owner home loans at LJ Hooker. He also held a senior management role at Suncorp. YBR executive chair ...