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ME Bank launches premium treasury service

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
ME Bank will launch a new premium treasury service for wealth management advisers at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) conference in Melbourne on Wednesday. According to ME Bank general manager liabilities Michael Donohue, the ...

ICA Board appoints Zurich CEO

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has appointed Daniel Fogarty CEO for Zurich General Insurance in Australia to its board. "I am delighted to accept this position", Fogarty said. "The ICA is essential to the continuing development of a strong ...

Keep chasing architects of Trio collapse: Agencies

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... inquiries into the fraud, AAP reported. The committee also commended ASIC for helping reach a settlement with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia on compensation costs for the collapse of Storm Financial. Clients of the Townsville-based financial services ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Australian investors were sitting on the sidelines in anticipation of next week's first half results from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). "It's been an absolute star performer in the last four months and the market will be very keen to see ...

ANZ appoints new chief risk officer for Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
ANZ has appointed Jennifer Evans as chief risk officer for Australia, it was announced today. Since 2010, Evans has held the role of chief risk officer for New Zealand where she had responsibility for wholesale and retail credit risk, market, operating ...

Rum outcome for Bundy: ASIC suspend license

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... involved in negligent or otherwise discreditable business and had dodged garnishee orders by paying company money into his own bank account. It also found Ezyware, another of Bundy's companies, had continued to trade even when he knew it was insolvent. ...

Banks raise $15bn in wholesale markets

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Based on strong underlying appetite for Australian bank paper and improved wholesale funding costs - significantly below the rates they're willing to pay for term deposits - total funds raised by major Australian banks in the wholesale markets just ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
Just give me a reason, any reason. There were big central bank meetings overnight -- the European Central Bank and the Bank of England debated their respective monetary policy settings - but nothing changed. It was same old, same old. So you could imagine ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... market looks set to open lower following the lead of international markets overnight after comments from European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi. At 0646 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was DOWN 11 points at 4,883. ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... 1,512.12, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 3.10 or 0.10 per cent, to 3,168.48. Locally, National Australia Bank shares rose after it reported its first-quarter profit had fallen 20 per cent but its unaudited cash earnings in the three ...