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Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... September 2016. Then again, residential property price growth should continue to weaken going forward as APRA's tougher lending regulations (especially for investment housing) and mortgage rate increases and stricter lending rules imposed by banks since ...

Financial Standard to expand into Marketing and Communications educational content

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... said. Financial services is one of Australia's fastest growing industry sectors employing more than 400,000 people across lending, superannuation, insurance, investment, financial advice and project financing. Meanwhile, there are about 60,000 Marketing ...

Northern Trust names Sydney head

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... past 12 months, we have seen the office expand across our capital markets business from brokerage to include securities lending and foreign exchange services. We are complementing these additional capabilities by building a local client servicing and ...

Super funds and CEFC join investment forces

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... in emissions." Separately CEFC recently made a $20 million investment in RateSetter's Green Loan - a peer-to-peer green lending platform. It aims to bring together investors, borrowers and clean energy product providers who have a shared interest in ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... businesses has slowed to 3.1% in the year to April from 3.5% in the previous month and 7.3% in April last year. Personal lending continued to contract, down 1.5% in April - the 18th straight month of decline. Despite APRA's tighter rules on property ...

Approved to build more dwellings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) - especially after its tighter home lending regulations announced in late March -- wouldn't be pleased with the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report that total ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... year that it had been in constant contraction. In addition, the BOJ's own 'Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices at Large Japanese Banks (April 2017)' report showed loan demand from households decelerated to a reading of 7 over ...

Qualitas launches fund, adds two directors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... debt financing of about $125 million. Establishing the fund fills a gap in the market left by the banks pulling back in lending activities, Qualitas group managing director Andrew Schwartz said. "Our new construction finance fund will provide a much-needed ...

Advisers doubtful over super home deposit scheme

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... there'll be instances where first home buyers won't meet the minimum deposit requirement as well as fall short of bank lending ratios, indicating additional funds outside of the scheme are needed. Conversely, for younger people wanting to save up for ...

Housing is cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... 0.8% fall in February - their value increased by 0.9% in March, more than reversing the previous month's 0.7% drop with lending increasing for both owner-occupied housing (0.9%)and for investment housing (0.8%) over the month. Year-on-year, the number ...