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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 ...

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 ...