Australian Financial Markets Newsletter

Week ending | 5 March 2010

Global professional services firm Deloitte has forecast another tough year for the global financial services industry.

In a report released last week, Deloitte highlights five major trends impacting globally:

- the impact of new regulations
- the challenge of core IT systems and data aggregation
- continued improvements in corporate governance and risk oversight
- playing out bank’s exposure to distressed assets
- seeking growth in weak markets.

“These trends are also present to differing degrees in the Australian banking market...

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