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Local shares lacklustre in 2016

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... increase and this, along with the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) monitoring the level of home loan lending, as well as business conditions not expected to improve markedly, means we are unlikely to see a lot of growth coming through ...

Crestone announces major partnerships

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... services, including a technology platform; transaction and cash management facilities; multi-asset, multi-currency margin lending; securities execution, clearing and settlement; and custody. Crestone chief executive Mike Chisolm explained, "Starting ...

Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... returns. At the same time, Schwartz said new investors are stepping in to plug a gap left by tighter restrictions on bank lending. "The banks have their hands tied when it comes to making loans to property developers. As a result, there is a need for ...

GE Capital to exit Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015

ME and mutuals must embrace fintech

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... including: a more competitive position due to the impact of changes from the Financial System Inquiry (FSI); constraints on lending growth across the banking sector requiring consumers and investors to look at alternatives; investment in new technology ...

ASIC sets up special robo-advice taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... receive." More broadly, ASIC has identified the key challenges of what it calls "digital disruption." They are: market place lending, robo-advice, crowd-sourced equity funding, digital currencies, blockchain and cyber resilience. "As a pro-active and ...

CBA embeds ESG into investment, wealth management

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2015
... Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev said. "An important part of that is rigorously and consistently examining our lending and investment decisions to understand and assess environmental and social impacts." The group's 2016-2018 Corporate Responsibility ...

Banks face wealth management challenges

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
... said. KPMG said the major banks' fees and commissions increased modestly by 2.4% $12.6 billion and was "driven by stable lending fees and commissions as well as continued margin pressure extending across all segments of their operations." KPMG flagged ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... last year. While the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has again eased monetary policy - it lowered the benchmark one-year lending rate by 25 bps to 4.35%; the deposit rate down by 25 bps to 1.5% (the lowest on record); the reserve requirement ratio by 50 ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
... where central command deliberates on and sets its 13th Five-Year Plan. Effective 24 October, China's benchmark one-year lending rate will be lower by 25 bps to 4.35%; the deposit rate down by 25 bps to 1.5% - the lowest on record; the reserve requirement ...