Investment Banking News

AMP announces major restructure, CEO steps down

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 10 Oct, 2019 . Posted in Investment Banking News

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AMP has signalled it will be merging its banking and wealth management businesses into one combined organisation to be named AMP Australia, following the resignation of the company’s bank chief executive Sally Bruce. Heading the new AMP Australia unit will be current Australian wealth management chief Alex Wade. Rod Finch, currently managing director of wealth products and platforms, has been appointed to take the role of managing director, AMP bank.

Mr Finch will be reporting to Mr Wade when Ms Bruce steps down on 1 November. AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari said the internal consolidation reflected the company’s client-led strategy. “The strategy we set out in August is focused on reinventing AMP to be a client-led, simpler and more growth-oriented business,” Mr De Ferrari said.

The rest of this article can be found at investordaily.com.au.

Bonuses cut for many at ANZ

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 7 Aug, 2019 . Posted in Investment Banking News

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ANZ has announced wide ranging reforms to its remuneration structure with the biggest change to remove individual bonuses for many of its employees. The changes announced this week have replaced individual bonuses with an incentive based on the overall performance of the ANZ Group. These changes do not apply to ANZ’s executive committee which include chief executive Shayne Elliott, whose remuneration is structured in line with regulatory requirements.

Starting from October, the only variable remuneration most employees will receive will be in the form of a group performance dividend, based on the bank’s performance from a risk, financial, customer, people and reputation perspective. Mr Elliott said the royal commission had shone a light on the negative impact that individual bonuses within a bank can have on customer outcomes. “We are taking action to rebalance the way we pay people so that variable remuneration is a smaller part of our people’s take-home pay with these reduced bonuses to be determined by the overall performance of the bank,” he said.

The rest of this article can be found at investordaily.com.au.

Investors demanding more ESG and Impact Investing

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 5 Aug, 2019 . Posted in Funds Management News

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Australian investors are catching up with European counterparts when it comes ESG and Impact Investing. That’s the view of one of the leaders in the fast-growing field who will be a keynote speaker at The Summit 2019 – The Age of the Customer – later this year. Giles Gunesekera, CEO of Global Impact Initiative, says consumers from all age groups are demanding to know where their superannuation funds are being held.

Both baby boomers and millennials want to have a clean conscience as well as a well-performing portfolio, he says. “Looking at the change, it’s definitely for the better from an industry perspective,” he said. “We continue to get lots of interest from people wanting to invest in different impact investing strategies.

The rest of this article can be found at finsia.com.au.

Investor Community More Willing to Flex Muscle

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 5 Jul, 2019 . Posted in Investment Banking News

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The investor community is showing a willingness to flex their ownership muscle when it comes to engagement in responsible investing. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) recently released their responsible investment benchmark report and found that corporate engagement and shareholder action was the secondary strategy for most investors. “We are finding that the investor community is more willing to flex their ownership muscle in terms of their ownership of customers. There’s a lot more proactive dialogue going on,” said Simon O’Connor, chief executive of RIAA.

While no single manager said their first strategy was engagement, 36 per cent said it was their secondary strategy, said Mr O’Connor. “You are seeing a greater propensity to vote in favour of ESG resolutions in AGMs and we’ve seen some fairly big votes in favour of companies aligning their strategy with a two-degree future for example. You’re also seeing a lot of investors getting behind listed companies to really ensure they realign their strategies to be in line with Paris agreement targets in particular,” he said.

The rest of this article can be found at investordaily.com.au.

Morgan Stanley Driving Fintech’s Capital Raising Process

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 13 May, 2019 . Posted in Insights

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The multinational investment bank will drive the capital raising process for one of Australia’s newest neobanks who is opening its doors to new investors. 86 400 is an aspiring bank that is currently been supported and fully funded by Cuscal Limited but is seeking new shareholders. Cuscal Limited, an independent payment provider will continue to support the neobanks as it enters its capital raising plan.

Robert Bell, chief executive of 86 400 said that Cuscal had helped the bank to invest heavily in their technology over the past two years. “Over the last two years – and with the support of Cuscal – we’ve invested heavily in building proprietary technology that will change the way retail banking is delivered in Australia,” he said. The capital raising is in line with the banks business plan, which requires more than $250 million of capital over the first three years of operation to fund its growing balance sheet.

The rest of this article can be found at investordaily.com.au.

Singapore Ranks Third In Open Banking Index

Posted by Anton Murray Consulting on 9 Apr, 2019 . Posted in Insights

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Singapore ranks third on EY’s Open Banking Opportunity index, partially driven by proactive efforts by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to progress open banking since 2016. It ranks behind China, but ahead of Hong Kong.

«The regulator has taken an innovative and collaborative approach in the way it works with the industry and other markets in the region. This balanced approach helps Singapore banks to advance significantly in this space, and encourages an innovative environment for adoption to take root naturally through co-creation without a mandated system seen in other markets,» said Andrew Gilder, EY Asia-Pacific Banking and Capital Markets Sector Leader, in a recent report.

China and Hong Kong

Open banking is thriving in China, driven by an innovation-focused economy and the world’s most digitally connected consumers. The country’s voluntary approach to regulation and demand from its fast-expanding, digitally connected middle class, rank it number 2 in the Open Banking Opportunity Index.

Hong Kong has huge Open Banking adoption potential given its digitally-active population. However FinTech innovation in the market is lagging, keeping it at sixth place in the Index.

«However open APIs, combined with other recent initiatives announced by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority such as virtual banking licences and a faster payments system, may be the catalysts that transform the market,» EY said in its report.

This article can be found at finews.asia

Investment Banking News

AMP announces major restructure, CEO steps down

Bonuses cut for many at ANZ

Investors demanding more ESG and Impact Investing

Investor Community More Willing to Flex Muscle

Morgan Stanley Driving Fintech’s Capital Raising Process

Singapore Ranks Third In Open Banking Index

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