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Digital asset firm names investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2025
... on several industry initiatives, including ANZ's bank-issued stablecoin, the Reserve Bank of Australia's central bank digital currency pilot, and the ASX's tokenisation and digital asset infrastructure projects. The appointment comes as Vector ...

RBA hike may come as soon as February

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2025
... chief economist David Robertson believes a February hike is still off the cards, and the more likely scenario is the central bank will remain on hold for most of the year. "The market has quickly moved from pricing in one more rate cut in 2026 to now ...

Vanguard identifies strongest asset classes for coming decade

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2025
According to Vanguard's outlook, high-quality US fixed income, US value-oriented equities, and non-US developed markets equities will have the strongest risk-returns over the coming five to 10 years. Vanguard predicts US value-oriented equities will ...

ASX suffers another outage

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2025
The ASX has confirmed it is investigating an issue which was impacting the publication of company announcements. The outage began at 8:59am AEDT, and some annoucements were being published as of 11:22am AEDT after the ASX implemented an initial remediation ...

RBA on hold but 'not as hawkish as feared'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2025
... at its November meeting, but economists were paying close attention to the tone of the statement released by the central bank. Betashares chief economist David Bassanese said while the decision to keep rates on hold was expected, the accompanying statement ...

Australian economy 'at a crossroads': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... weaker employment growth, and upside surprises to monthly inflation data. This tension has created a challenge for the central bank in determining the extent and timing of further easing in monetary policy." Globally, economic prospects have generally ...

Liquidity, operational shocks major issues for super: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... and banks have the potential to transmit stress in a severe market-wide liquidity stress event." Additionally, the central bank said funds must focus on managing their large and expanding market presence. "As the sector's foreign asset holdings continue ...

RBA delivers 'hawkish hold'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2025
... a move widely predicted by economists. However, some were surprised by the post-meeting statement released by the central bank. "Recent data, while partial and volatile, suggest that inflation in the September quarter may be higher than expected at the ...

RBNZ appoints Swedish central banker as governor

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... a five-year term from 1 December 2025. Breman comes to the role after serving as the first deputy governor of the central bank of Sweden since September 2022. She has served on the executive board as a deputy governor since 2019. She also held the role ...

RBA says ASX has 'considerable work to do'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... the market operator for continued failures. The RBA determined the ASX has "considerable work to do" to meet the central bank's expectations for an operator of critical market infrastructure. The RBA pointed to recent shortcomings in risk management ...