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Northern Trust selected to test tokenised asset uses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... first quarter of 2026. RBA assistant governor (financial systems) Brad Jones said ensuring that Australia's payments and monetary arrangements are fit-for-purpose in the digital age is a strategic priority for the RBA. "Project Acacia represents an opportunity ...

RBA delivers 'confounding' rates decision

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
... challenge remains boosting business investment to lift productivity. This provides a clear case for the continued easing of monetary policy." Meanwhile, Treasurer Jim Chalmers expressed his unhappiness around the central bank's decision to hold. ...

US-Iran tensions send markets into panic mode

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2025
... question," Green said. "A sustained surge in oil makes rate cuts very difficult to justify. If inflation spikes back up, monetary policymakers will be forced to hold, and possibly even reconsider the easing cycle altogether. "That fundamentally changes ...

Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... investment and reducing incentives for companies to take action in the near term," the report read. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) categorises fossil-fuel subsidies into explicit and implicit forms. Explicit subsidies are direct government payments ...

Resilient job market reduces rate cut probability: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... has dialled down chances of a July rate cut from 81% to 76%, AMP still believes the economy needs a boost from easier monetary policy and predicts there will be a cut in July, followed by more in August, November and February next year.

King's honours list recognises excellence in super, finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... She is currently a director at the Australian Retirement Trust and member of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) Monetary Policy Board. As an expert in governance in the private and public sector, Charles Macek has served on the board of Emergency ...

ECB drops interest rates by 0.25%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2025
... 2026, mainly reflect lower assumptions for energy prices and a stronger euro," said the Governing Council, which oversees monetary policy. Trade tensions sparked by Liberation Day, however, could throw a spanner in the works and derail its projections. ...

Allan Gray exposes 'hateful eight' bubble threat

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... appears to have led to significant market dislocation and stretched fundamentals. Trade tensions, populist politics and monetary policy have become front-of-mind distractions, shifting attention away from long-term fundamentals," Mawhinney said. Notably ...

Former TCorp exec sets up consultancy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... an investment consultant focussing on TPA. Brake, a member of the investment and risk advisory panel that advises the Monetary Authority of Singapore, is also a director of NZ Super and a proponent of TPA. TPA's entire purpose is to achieve a fund's ...

RBA cut expected, but then what?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2025
... the board will continue to put more weight on the domestic flow of data rather than international developments in the monetary policy setting process." Zenith head of asset allocation Damien Hennessy agrees that while the situation with the US has caused ...