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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... policy decision As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy unchanged - repo rate at 0%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25%; deposit facility rate at minus 0.4%; monthly purchases at €80 billion - at its 21 April meeting. ...

ANZ makes two senior advice appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... Victoria and Tasmania. He has held other roles at ANZ prior to this, including head of distribution, E*TRADE investment lending and product manager for protected equity portfolio. "Joe is a well-regarded wealth professional with extensive experience ...

Government boosts ASIC with $127m package

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... "appropriate law and regulatory reform"; and $57 million to enhance specific surveillance of the financial advice, responsible lending and life insurance industries. On top of this, the Government will also implement the proposed industry funding model ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... decline. A 3.0% jump in the number of loans for the purchase of existing dwellings, more than offset continuing decreases in lending for new dwellings (-15.4% in February from -4.2% in January) and dwelling construction (-1.9% from -2.8%). Australia ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... decline. A 3.0% jump in the number of loans for the purchase of existing dwellings, more than offset continuing decreases in lending for new dwellings (-15.4% in February from -4.2% in January) and dwelling construction (-1.9% from -2.8%). Australia ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... in customer enquiries and a more cautious approach by prospective purchasers. Local council planning delays and tighter lending conditions for investors were other factors seen as constraining residential market conditions." US ISM non-manufacturing ...

Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... year. "We believe that there will be more RBA independent moves, or out of cycle moves from the banks in terms of the lending rates. So those factors, we think, are going to contribute to monetary policy and further easing," said Miall. Concluding Miall ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... the RBA to cut interest rates again. Housing credit increased by 0.5% on the month and by 7.3% in the year to February. Lending for investment housing slowed to 7.6% from a year ago -- representing the ninth straight month of slowing annual growth in ...

ASIC and UK regulator sign fintech deal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... requirements. In particular we have dealt with robo or digital advice, crowd sourced equity funding, payments, marketplace lending and blockchain business models," Medcraft said. "It is very exciting to observe and clearly some business ideas will want ...

Australian non-bank finance shows robust growth

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
... with KPMG revealed that across Asia-Pacific total volume of online alternative finance markets including peer-to-peer lending and crowd-funding grew by 323% in 2015 with China's market leading the pack at $1.36 billion. Japan's market ranked second at ...