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ANZ has opened a branch in the Chinese port city of Qingdao, in Shandong province. read more

Goldman Sachs has started using the social media platform Snapchat, whose distinctive feature is that messages disappear after a few seconds, to send out recruiting ads. read more

Former chief executive of CUA, Chris Whitehead, has joined the board of marketplace lender DirectMoney. read more

According to NAB's latest analysis of the Australian securitisation market, year-to-date domestic collateral-backed RMBS issuance is stands at A$21.9 billion, slightly ahead of where the market was at.. read more

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, backed by major buy- and sell-side players, has launched a project to develop an open-source standard derivatives product identification system to.. read more

Legislation enabling Australia to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank passed the Federal Parliament yesterday. read more

Commonwealth Bank has joined a consortium of international banks backing a project to develop a global standard of distributed ledger (blockchain) technology in financial markets. read more

Suncorp's head of equipment, trade and debtor finance, Wayne Thomason, has been appointed chair of the Debtor and Invoice Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. read more

Deutsche Bank is planning to cut 23,000 jobs - about a quarter of its workforce. read more

Commonwealth Bank has completed the final stage of the capital raising it launched last month, with a successful retail bookbuild. The bank has raised a total of A$5.1 billion of equity capital. read more