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Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... referring to the impact on the UK of the 1878 City of Glasgow Bank collapse. Australia's banking system was to experience a crisis of its own in the 1890s, due in part to the bursting of a property bubble. At this time, more than half the trading banks ...

Allianz launches cyber risk insurance product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... interruption cover that can be tailored to the client's needs. Allianz Cyber Protect clients also have immediate access to a crisis response team, which includes a panel of forensic IT experts who will work with them to manage a cyber incident. Allianz ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... Spooner said the local market was the first to move on Monday to news that Ukraine was on the brink of war with Russia in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. "We've already ...

Market down on Ukraine unrest

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... geopolitical crisis in the Ukraine escalates. The Ukraine is on the brink of war with Russia threatening to invade in a crisis that began three months ago with civilian protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. The deepening crisis ...

Financial execs have poor ethics, little regulatory knowledge

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... confident in their knowledge of the regulatory environment, a CFA Institute research found. The global study, entitled A Crisis of Culture: Valuing Ethics and Knowledge in Financial Services, has highlighted a number of contradictions between the reality ...

Counting up and counting down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
Shutdown: Day 7 (going by the US time zone)...and counting. Can you feel it, can you feel it, can you feel it Virginia? Wall Street's back to the seesaw - up or down depending on every single blah US politicians' invoke over the shutdown and the debt ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... budget battle. The face-off in Washington also sent the US dollar lower, while the euro suffered selling pressure from a crisis in Italy that has left the country's five-month-old government on the brink of collapse. Tokyo fell 2.06 per cent, or 304.27 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... cent, at 4,669.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was down 72.7 points, or 1.54 per cent, to 4651.1 points. A crisis in China's banking system has caused lenders to put the brakes on loans. The rates banks charge to borrow from each other ...

Environmental trends a boost for Impax

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
Global energy and environmental trends mean the demand for 'resource efficiency' investments will only increase in the years ahead, according to Impax Asset Management chief executive Ian Simm. 'Resource efficiency' or 'resource optimisation' are terms ...

Vale William Mahoney

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... school in Melbourne. "He was a mentor to countless young men and women who passed through Bridgewater. He was cool in a crisis, steadfast in times of trouble, the first to pick up the bill, the last to leave the party. He leaves our stage with footprints ...