The US Dollar Index, a measure of the USD's performance against a basket of major currencies, showed marginal losses on Monday, and the 10-year US Treasury bond yield closed nearly unchanged, hovering just above 4.6%. In the Eurozone, the EUR/USD currency pair maintained stability around 1.0700, having recorded slight gains on the preceding day. Forecasts…
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An ongoing ASIC investigation has resulted in the permanent banning of former National Australia Bank (NAB) branch manager Mathew Alwan from engaging in credit activities and providing financial services. The ban is the result of an extensive ASIC investigation in respect of NAB employees in greater western Sydney who were accepting false documents in support…
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The Administrative Appeals tribunal (AAT) has set aside a decision by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to ban Mr Gerard McCormack from providing any financial services. Mr McCormack, of South Melbourne, Victoria, a former financial adviser with the National Australia Bank (NAB) was banned from providing financial services for five years commencing on…
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.
Read moreNational Australia Bank (NAB) and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have today announced that nabtrade, NAB Asset Management and NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) will join the ASX mFund Settlement Service. NAB is the first major bank to commit to the mFund service, launching by the end of the year. mFund is an electronic processing service…
Read moreAustralia's national regulator clearly understands the importance of the use of leading edge technology by traders, however it must be used correctly, states chairman Greg Medcraft
Read moreA 26 year old employee of the National Australia Bank and a 24 year old civil servant experienced the long arm of the law after being arrested by the Police on Friday with $7 million restrained for misusing advantageous information to profit in FX.
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