Corentine Poilvet-Clediere, Head of RepoClear, Collateral and Liquidity, LCH SA, said: It’s a great milestone to welcome CBA as the first Australian member of LCH SA. RepoClear SA has been gaining increasing traction in regions outside Europe, with members joining from Japan, Canada and now Australia. Banks such as CBA play a key role in…
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The incorrect fees have been found to be a result of manual errors executed by CBA staff members, as well as improperly configured or inadequate processes and systems which dismissed the fact that a vast number of customers were entitled to waivers on any fees. CBA was also found to have produced misrepresented justifications of…
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), ABN Amro, London Forfaiting Company, Crown Agents Bank and Natixis have joined the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFD Initiative) as members. The TFD Initiative is an industry-wide drive to use technology and standardisation for the wider distribution of trade finance assets. The project launched earlier this year, attracting number of…
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) informed that it has entered into a court enforceable undertaking with Australian regulator ASIC in relation to their bank bill trading business and their participation in the setting of the Bank Bill Swap Rate (BBSW), a key benchmark and reference interest rate in the Australian financial system. As part of…
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ASIC announced that it has today commenced legal proceedings in the Federal Court in Melbourne against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for unconscionable conduct and market manipulation in relation to CBA's involvement in setting the bank bill swap reference rate (BBSW) between 31 January 2012 and October 2012. The BBSW is the primary interest…
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ASIC has today accepted enforceable undertakings (EUs) from each of the National Australia Bank Limited (NAB) and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) in relation to the banks’ wholesale spot foreign exchange (FX) businesses. As a result of ASIC’s investigation, ASIC is concerned that between 1 January 2008 and 30 June 2013, both banks failed…
Read moreClearing house LCH has announced that Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has become its first Australian Protected Payments System (PPS) Bank. Having an Australian PPS Bank enables LCH to make and receive Australian Dollar payments in the local time zone. The PPS system is the method by which LCH calls and pays cash margin to its clearing…
Read moreCommonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX:CBA) has paid four infringement notices totalling $180,000 in relation to breaches of responsible lending laws when providing personal overdraft facilities. CBA has reported this matter to ASIC following an ASIC surveillance. CBA conducted an internal review which identified a programming error in the automated serviceability calculator used to assess certain…
Read moreThe trial marked an unprecedented scale of institutional collaboration between the financial and technology communities exploring how distributed ledgers can be applied to global financial markets. Just released is a major blockchain announcement from financial technology innovation company R3 CEV. In short, they connected 40 banks to five different blockchains and allowed them to facilitate…
Read moreConsortium to develop new technology for global financial markets now comprises 25 banks.
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