AFF5050 Global Financial Institutions & Issues Assignment Semester 2‚ 2012 Letter of Transmit 2nd September 2012 Dr. Piyadasa Edirisuriya Department of Accounting and Finance Caulfield Campus‚ Monash University Subject: Report of analysing Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. Dear Dr. Edirisuriya As requested‚ we have attached the report as below‚ which is to evaluate the performance of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). In this report‚ we summarized the history of ANZ
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result of regulatory and economic developments in these countries It provides a competitive assessment of the mortgage products offered by the leading lending banks in the US‚ UK‚ Ireland and Australia‚ and their shares in the mortgage market Summary The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 severely impacted numerous world economies. Reckless lending practices by banks and rising house prices led to an increasing number of foreclosures in mortgage markets around the world. While economies such as the
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Furthermore‚ other weaknesses in the global financial system have surfaced. Some financial products and instruments have become so complex and twisted‚ that as things start to unravel‚ trust in the whole system started to fail. John Bird‚ John Fortune‚ Subprime Crisis‚ February 14‚ 2008 While there are many technical explanations of how the sub-prime mortgage crisis came about‚ the mainstream British comedians‚ John Bird and John Fortune‚ describe the mind set of the investment banking community in this
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(a) Introduction The financial crisis or bank crashes are not a new phenomenon; it could be impairing and harming the whole economy of certain countries and even affect the world wide economy in short period of time. In recent history‚ the world wide economy has been shock by several financial crisis. This show that the stability of the financial market is weak and the world still hard to prevent it to occur after undergo various financial crises in previous years. Financial crisis rarely happen
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instruments‚ known as securitization. In essence‚ securitization is the process of raising capital by using the assets available on the balance sheet as collateral to issue debt securities. High profit along with greed had led to the abusiveness of lending sub-prime loans. The evaluation procedure was done very loosely and accessing to housing loans became quickly and easily than ever which in turn caused caused the housing bubble. There were two main factors
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* ------------------------------------------------- G30 In 2008 the financial markets froze. Firms suddenly discovered that they could no longer roll over their corporate paper‚ a normally very liquid and easy-to-issue security. Banks stopped lending to each other in fear they would never be paid back. Government officials asked Congress for both the authority and funds to fill in for the now absent credit markets. Congress complied‚ and thus was born the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)‚
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selling off of mortgages for profit exposed this mess. One of those banks‚ and the first to fall was Bear Stearns. In 2007‚ “Bear Stearns‚ the 5th largest investment bank in the US‚ announced large losses in 2 of its hedge funds with exposure to subprime assets. Clients were prevented from withdrawing money and the funds were eventually shut down at a $3 billion dollar loss” (Wall Street Oasis‚ 2012). In an effort to stave off a crisis the Government‚ “ extended JPMorgan Chase a $30 billion credit
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Accounting’s Role in the Financial Crisis Introduction The accounting profession is responsible for delivering the information necessary to make correct decisions. To promote the dissemination of high quality information‚ accounting standard setters constantly struggle to keep standards up to date with the ever evolving markets. In light of the recent financial crisis‚ fair value accounting has come under scrutiny. Some critics go as far as to blame the whole crisis on fair value accounting
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resulted in an increase in the cost of purchasing household equipment‚ as well as conducting routine household maintenance by approximately 3.69 percent (Bourdeau‚ n.d). The emergent question is what impact this surge is bound to have on consumer lending‚ debt repayment and borrowing. During the beginning of the year‚ over a five-month period‚ consumers took loans worth more than Dh9 billion‚ a sum that correlates with the whole of 2012’s increase. Moreover‚ the UAE presently represents more than
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