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Blockchain can power internal systems: Digital Asset

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... would typically include different entities and these entities would be required to, for an example, maintain different liquidity or capital requirements between different jurisdictions. "Or you could think about the distinctions between the operations ...

Cybersecurity fit for a $16bn insurer

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... and buy some cover to cover those losses in the worse-case scenario. The modelling also helped it determine how much liquidity it had to maintain to cover any unplanned cyber events. Talking cybersecurity in a language that board directors understand ...

Perpetual partners with Microsoft

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... stress testing module streamlines APRA reporting for financial service providers. It helps managers and banks manage the liquidity requirements by allowing them to stress test portfolios easily. Early takers include one of the big four banks, two mutual ...

Firetrail calls off $305m IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... management and board decided the LIC's ownership was concentrated in the hands of a few investors, which could impact its liquidity. It crossed its minimum raise about a week into the offer's opening. "The mixture of shareholders was increasingly ...

Chief economist update: China on the down low

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
... sectors, expectations fell to their second-lowest in ten months." The People's Bank of China's latest injection of liquidity in the economy should help offset its challenges, not least because of its trade war with the US. The 100 basis point ...

Chief economist update: When QE turns to QT

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... dynamics, the equity markets also depend on funds flow... and with the Fed shrinking its balance sheet, there's lesser liquidity to underwrite US financial markets. Quantitative Tightening (QT). The Fed started to shrink its balance by US$10 billion ...

Diversification mandates lead the way: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... that looked like hedge funds. The product might have formerly been defined as a hedge fund or it could have been the liquidity profile or performance element - whatever it was, there was a cohort of buyers that couldn't access hedge funds but potentially ...

Chief economist update: Is China starting to slow down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... the Chinese equity market. But the fact that this happened a day after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) boosted liquidity in the domestic economy - in the form of a 100 basis point reduction in the reserve requirement (to 14.5% for big banks and ...

ASIC provides relief for naked short selling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... a market in units in those funds. The corporate regulator added the relief would facilitate market making, providing liquidity to the market. ASIC said it had given individual no-action positions for the last 10 years, allowing market makers of certain ...

The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... board, we have sought to make the trust appeal to more investors, especially post RDR. Part of that relates to size and liquidity, and when we were a sub £200 million market cap trust we were going nowhere," director Gay Collins said. "The decision ...