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Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... before, most have given up expecting more goodies from "Super 'whatever it takes' Mario". No mas, not after the ECB's Bank Lending Survey showed that QE is doing what's intended to do - ease lending conditions. So 'twas baby what a big surprise when ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

CBA refunds $7.6 million to 8400 customers

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... package was launched in 2005 but is no longer available to new customers and applied to a range of products including lending facilities, business overdrafts, savings and transaction accounts. An ASIC statement said there were a range of interest rate ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... need to be selective in this environment. We focus on banks that generate a lot of fee income, rather than margins on lending," he explains. Other themes are the travel industry supply chain, with companies involved in civil airspace continuing to look ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... thinking is that, higher mortgage rates, along with the new capital adequacy rules and regulatory controls on property lending, would eased the climb and climb of property prices (specifically in Sydney and Melbourne), removing the biggest hurdle that's ...

Aussie fintech partners with Alibaba

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... (ASX:CL8). FundX is a recently launched startup backed by BlueChilli. It is a peer-to-peer invoice discounting and SME lending platform that offers the funding of business cash flow gaps by advancing payments based on outstanding invoices. The funding ...

ING DIRECT super manager promoted

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... superannuation Tim Hewson has been appointed to a new role internally to become national partnership manager, residential lending and wealth. ING DIRECT has made the appointment on the back of a "growing convergence of the mortgage and advice industries." ...

Australian hedge funds on course to reach $100bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... Chairman, said. "With innovative strategies coming to market, from alternative beta to strategies that target the capital lending functions once dominated by banks, we expect the number and types of hedge fund strategies to grow significantly." Chadwick's ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... stabilising at more rational rates. China's plan to liberalise its economy is complex and affects its currency, equities and lending markets. "It's a new market, it's a new system and they need to figure out how to work with it. Hiccups like what we've ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Li's growth target of 7.0% on target. Well the PBOC has made real those hopes - cutting another 25 bps off its benchmark lending rate (the fifth time since November) to 4.6% and lowered the reserve requirement ratio by 50 bps - yet it provided only a ...