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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / April 11, 2019 / 24-7, AM-NC, Asia, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Banking and Finance, CTF, Currency Exchange Rates, DJF, Economy, England, English, European Union, Hong Kong, Immigration, Japan, KB, law, Legal, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific, Pacific Region, Reserve Bank of Australia, Singapore, Technology, Trade, United Kingdom, United States of America / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Progress on Benchmark Reform
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia – Good morning and thanks to ISDA for the opportunity to speak here today. It has been almost two years since Andrew Bailey announced that the FCA (the UK Financial Conduct Authority) would no longer use its powers to sustain LIBOR (the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate) beyond 2021. Since that […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / April 10, 2019 / 24-7, Aid, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Australian Cities, Banking, Banking and Finance, Business, Canada, China, Commerce, Crude, CTF, DJF, Economy, Education, Employment, English, Exploration, Exports, Fiscal Updates, Gas, Germany, Global Economy, Imports, Inflation, Investment, Japan, KB, Labour, Media Intelligence, Melbourne, MIL OSI, Mining, New South Wales, Oil, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Peoples Republic Of China, Reserve Bank of Australia, Resource Exploitation, Resource Exploration, South Australia, Sydney, Technology, Tourism, Trade, United Kingdom, United States of America / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Speech: The State of the Economy
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia – Thank you very much to AmCham for giving me the opportunity to speak in my home town of Adelaide. Today I am going to discuss the Bank’s assessment of the current economic situation both in the world and in the Australian economy. I will also talk about some of […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / April 8, 2019 / 24-7, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Banking and Finance, CTF, DJF, Economy, English, Immigration, KB, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reserve Bank of Australia / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Consultation on ISO 20022 Migration for the Australian Payments System
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia The Reserve Bank and the Australian Payments Council (APC) today issued a consultation paper seeking stakeholder views on the migration of messaging used in some parts of the Australian payments system to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 20022 payments messaging standard. The Australian payments system comprises a number of […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / April 5, 2019 / 24-7, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Banking and Finance, Climate, Climate Change, CTF, DJF, Economy, English, Investment, KB, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific, Pacific Region, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, Technology, Weather / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Pacific central bankers prioritise capital flows and climate change
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia Number 2019-08 Date 5 April 2019 Joint statement from the South Pacific Governor’s Meeting[*] At a meeting in Auckland yesterday, the Governors of the nine central banks agreed a vision for the group to ‘collaborate to promote the prosperity and economic wellbeing of our member nations’. The governors started a […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / March 27, 2019 / 24-7, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Banking and Finance, Business, Commerce, CTF, Currency Exchange Rates, DJF, Economy, English, KB, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Republic of Korea, Reserve Bank of Australia / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Opening Panel Remarks at the FX Week Australia
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia Thanks to FX Week for the invitation to discuss the FX Global Code. When the FX Global Code was launched in 2017, the aim was that it would promote a robust, fair, liquid and transparent wholesale market. To do that, the Code sets out principles of good practice. As awareness […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / March 26, 2019 / 24-7, Aid, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Australian Cities, Banking and Finance, Business, Commerce, CTF, DJF, Economy, Employment, English, Exploration, Exports, Health, Inflation, Investment, KB, Labour, MIL OSI, Mining, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reserve Bank of Australia, Technology, Trade, West Australia / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: What’s Up (and Down) With Households?
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia Thank you to the organisers of this breakfast event for the opportunity to speak with you and share with you some of our thinking about current economic developments. For a little while now, the team at the Bank has been grappling with how one might reconcile apparently weak national accounts […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / March 20, 2019 / 24-7, Aid, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Banking, Banking and Finance, Business, Climate, Climate Change, Commerce, CTF, DJF, Economy, English, Environment, Exploration, Investment, KB, Media Intelligence, Melbourne, MIL OSI, Mining, New South Wales, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Queensland, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, Trade, Weather, West Australia / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Property, Debt and Financial Stability
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia – Thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. It is great to be here and to hear your perspectives. As Assistant Governor (Financial System) I oversee the Bank’s work on financial stability. But what is financial stability and what is the Reserve Bank’s role in it? The […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / March 19, 2019 / 24-7, Aid, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Australian State Governments, Banking and Finance, Business, Commerce, CTF, Currency Exchange Rates, DJF, Economy, English, Exploration, Immigration, Investment, KB, MIL OSI, Mining, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reserve Bank of Australia, Resource Exploitation, Resource Exploration, South Australia, Trade, United Kingdom / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Bonds and Benchmarks
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia Introduction It’s wonderful to be back at the Debt Capital Markets Summit. The past year in Australia was a bit of a mixed bag in terms of issuance of fixed income securities. Banks’ issuance of bonds was high in net terms. Issuance of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) by the […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / March 15, 2019 / 24-7, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Banking and Finance, CTF, Currency Exchange Rates, DJF, Economy, English, Japan, KB, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reserve Bank of Australia / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Bilateral Local Currency Swap Agreement With the Bank of Japan
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia The Reserve Bank of Australia has extended its bilateral local currency swap agreement with the Bank of Japan for a further three years. The agreement is designed to enhance the financial stability of the two countries and allows for the exchange of local currencies between the two central banks of […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / March 12, 2019 / 24-7, Aid, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Region, Australia, Australia Government Statements, Australian Cities, Banking and Finance, Business, China, Climate, Climate Change, Commerce, CTF, Culture, Cyclone, DJF, Economics, Economy, Employment, English, Environment, Exploration, Gas, India, Inflation, Investment, KB, Labour, law, Legal, MIL OSI, Mining, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Peoples Republic Of China, Reserve Bank of Australia, South Australia, Technology, Trade, United Nations, United States of America, Weather / Comments Off on MIL-OSI Australia: Climate Change and the Economy
Source: Reserve Bank of Australia ‘I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.’ As Dorothea Mackellar eloquently put it in 1908, the weather has always had a significant impact on the Australian economy. One example that I recall vividly from my primary school days […]
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