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Business awareness of fintechs low
Banking DayFintechs might have great technology but they are doing a lousy job of marketing their services, according to a new survey.
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Term deposit volumes rise
The flow of retail deposit volumes from on call accounts to term deposits is accelerating, according to East & Partners latest Deposit Funding and Debt Index.
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Currency fluctuations unnerve small business
Thu, August 27, 2015 Australia  Foreign ExchangeSmall business Australian businesses may have a more sophisticated approach to hedging currency risk compared with their global equivalents, but they are more spooked by foreign exchange fluctuations.
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Bank Relationship Management, Post-Basel III
Wed, August 19, 2015 Australia The true implications of higher capital adequacy requirements under Basel III remain largely unquantified given that guidance over the scale and scope of risk weighted capital banks are required to set aside against assets varies considerably. CFOs and treasurers truly face a rapidly changing global banking landscape.
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CBA, brace for slower growth ahead: Expert
Thu, August 13, 2015 Australia  Financial ResultsLachlan Colquhoun, CEO of East & Partners Asia discusses CBA earnings and forecasts with CNBC.
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Weak confidence hits capex budgets
Capital expenditure budgets for the new financial year are being affected by a lack of confidence in the economy, according to a quarterly survey.
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Financial services sector feels the buzz of disruption
Tue, June 16, 2015 Australia  TechnologyIf Australia has been a hotbed of disruption, across all industries, the financial services sector has been the hot water bottle in the hotbed. From the days when the likes of Pepper, Wizard, Aussie Home Loans and Liberty Financial first began to offer alternative sources of home loans to the major banks, through the emergence of alternative payment systems such as PayPal, to the attack by the likes of OzForex and Pepperstone on the banks' foreign exchange business, to the savaging of the traditional full-service stockbrokers' lucrative client relationships by online brokers, through to the Australian Securities Exchange itself having its stock-trading monopoly disrupted by the broker-owned Chi-X, the financial services sector has buzzed with the hum of disruption.