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BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2026
... definitive transaction documentation between the two parties, as well as other customary conditions. BMO is the eighth largest bank in North America, providing diversified services across personal and commercial banking, wealth management, global markets ...

Perpetual acquires majority stake in Interfi

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2026
... organic investment, partnership and targeted acquisitions. Victoria based Interfi provides loan serving technology to the non-bank lending sector and currently supports around $55 billion in assets under administration. Its platform manages the full ...

TAL appoints two new board members

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2026
... Mentis brings 37 years of financial services experience to the board, including as managing director and chief executive of Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), group executive Business Banking and chief digital, data and analytics officer at NAB, alongside other ...

Raiz names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... Wealth in Asia Pacific and was the chair of Ensombl. His broader career spans major institutions including HSBC, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and AMP Capital. "Raiz has built a trusted brand, a differentiated platform and a deeply engaged customer community. ...

Cooling economy could keep RBA on hold

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... data centres being built in New South Wales and Victoria." Dooley said the easing of growth is a positive sign the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) interest rate hikes have been working. "Three rate rises this year have taken the cash rate to 4.35% ...

Invesco, Trinetra IM strategies to wind up

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... low-to-moderate correlation to traditional financial market indices, targeting a gross return of 6% p.a. above the Bloomberg Ausbond Bank Bill Index with 8% p.a. target portfolio volatility. It returned 22.1% p.a. in the year to April and over a 10-year ...

US and Aussie shares 'incredibly divergent': UniSuper

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2026
... share price declines after earning downgrades. "To me there are two other big themes in the Australian market... We did have bank reporting season early in the month, that was a bit disappointing. Then between rate hikes and those capital gains tax changes ...

Centrepoint Alliance acquires two advice firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
... and investments businesses." The transaction will be funded via a $10 million acquisition facility from National Australia Bank, which will provide capacity to pursue further acquisitions. Also based in Queensland, Astute is a lending aggregator focused ...

FEATURE | Emerging markets: Twists and turns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
On March 24, merely weeks into the US-Israel war on Iran, the Philippines became the first domino to fall when President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a national energy emergency. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint ...

Marex Group expands structured products to HNWIs

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... model globally, with a larger team of experts handling fewer accounts each as a deliberate point of differentiation from bank competitors, and that approach will be extended to our Australian distributor relationships." He added that the business has ...
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