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The Trans-Tasman Business Circle will host its annual Economic Forecast on 7 February.

CPI up 3.5%; Trans-Tasman Economic Forecast on 7 Feb; Modernising Business Communications submission lodged.

With the release of higher than expected inflation figures on Tuesday, financial markets are betting the RBA will be forced to start lifting rates from August. This may turn out to be the case, but it is a fact of life that market traders and analysts can get it wrong.

The Enterprise Research Centre has released the annual ‘State of Small Business Britain’ report.

The move is the latest in a global cryptocurrency crackdown as governments from Asia to the United States worry that privately operated and highly volatile digital currencies could undermine their control of financial and monetary systems.

Barclays has hired two managing directors to bolster its Australian investment banking unit. 

In this report, Accenture summarises what they believe are the 10 most important trends driving the disruption of banking and shaping the industry and its marketplace.

The chairman of the prudential regulator, Wayne Byres, is concerned a central bank digital currency might destabilise the financial system by encouraging some customers to hold digital cash directly with the Reserve Bank instead of putting money in bank deposits.

Australian households are on ­average almost four years ahead on their mortgage payments, with a record $50bn funnelled into offset accounts over the past two years as homeowners used the pandemic to pay down their loans.

The Federal Government released the Final Report of the Hayne Royal Commission on Monday 4 February 2019. This is a timeline of significant events and actions since then.

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3.154 The Committee recommends that the Australian Government take steps to ensure that banks must, at a minimum, provide transactional banking services to all law-abiding businesses.