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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... unchanged 5.0% year-on-year gain and takes the three-month moving average down to 4.8% from 5.0% in September. However, lending remains resilient. Loans to households rose by 1.8% in the year to October following a similar annual rate of increase in ...

HSBC expands private wealth business

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... discretionary investment management, equities, fixed income, structured products and derivatives; as well as banking and lending services such as deposit accounts, foreign exchange, and online transactional banking. HSBC regional head of global private ...

Japanese bank Nomura ups ante in robo-advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... events such as personal or home loan debt and school fees. The bank is the latest of the global institutions that are lending their weight to the robo-advice model. In the US, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and UBS have launched their offerings while in ...

Former adviser receives jail sentence

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... clients' signatures to represent that the clients had agreed to act as guarantors for the margin loans Used the false margin lending applications with the intention of fraudulently persuading the lender to provide him with margin loans On 67 different ...

Challis Capital wins property mandate

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... mid-market developers to fund land purchases and to provide the much-needed equity shortfall imposed by the current tighter lending restrictions." Challis Capital Partners said that while the consortium has made an initial commitment of $100 million ...

US core property on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
... pre-2007. "From the liquidity side there's a great deal of capital in the market and that comes from investors as well as lending institutions - as we're in zero, negative or very low interest rate environments it allows for some very cheap debt that ...

Industry backs mental health education campaign PROP

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
The financial services industry is lending its support to a new mental health education campaign called 'People Reaching Out to People' (PROP). Rob Prugue, head of the Asia Pacific division for Lazard Asset Management Pacific Co, started PROP to address ...

HLB Mann Judd launches new advice arm

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... four banks, that can provide very competitive loan products. This is especially the case more recently with the tighter lending restrictions banks have imposed on borrowers," Macfarlane said. Prior to joining HLB Mann Judd Sydney, Macfarlane held a number ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... slowest pace since June 2014 to 6.4% in the year to September from 6.5% in the previous month with the deceleration in lending growth to owner-occupiers (+7.3% from +7.6%) slightly offset by the re-acceleration in investment housing (+4.9% from 4.6%). ...

ANZ to sell Asian retail, wealth businesses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... branch network across Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Indonesia. The transaction includes $11 billion in gross lending assets, $7 billion in credit risk weighted assets and $17 billion in deposits. The business accounted for $825 million in revenue ...