02 Sep 2022
Somayeh Shiri
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Data Scientist, ANZ Institutional
While many question the value of social media, a new tool using Tweets may help forecast movements in the Australian dollar.
05 May 2020
John Bromhead & Daniel Been
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FX Strategist & Head of FX and G3 Research, ANZ
Economies around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some are doing better than others.
25 Jul 2019
James Culham
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Executive Director, Institutional Portfolio Management, ANZ
Are economies staring down the barrel of the next recession? And how will monetary policies and investments help them float.
26 Jun 2019
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Facebook has launched its own currency - Libra - we foretell doubters and challenging times ahead.
25 Mar 2019
James Culham
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Executive Director, Institutional Portfolio Management, ANZ
Do banks just create unlimited amounts of money out of thin air?
21 Mar 2019
Maria Bellmàs
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Associate Director, Trade and Supply Chain Product, ANZ
Blockchain has been the darling of the tech world for some time but the tide is starting to turn.
07 Mar 2019
Khalil Hegarty and Tyler McDonald
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Associate Director and Consultant at ITS Global
Regional authorities are quickly moving towards digitising trade and customs – is Australia falling behind?
25 Jan 2019
James Culham
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Executive Director, Institutional Portfolio Management, ANZ
If 2018 was the year of bitcoin, perhaps 2019 will see the stablecoin take centre stage.
30 Jul 2018
Steve Dando
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Personal & Business Banker, ANZ
A bump in the road won’t be enough to keep crypto - an asset class still worthy of investment – away.
27 Jun 2018
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The BIS has delivered its result on crypto – as if the market was still waiting for advice - and it sounds like coinmania flew too close to the sun.
21 Jun 2018
Emma Mellow
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bluenotes contributor
NZ has the perfect business environment to develop blockchain tech – and reap the many rewards.
15 May 2018
Mark Evans & Alexander Malaket
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ANZ & OPUS Advisory Services
Lessons learned from trade finance can teach us a lot as regulators eye consumer protections on tech like bitcoin.
20 Apr 2018
Raymond Yeung & Khoon Goh
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Chief Economist Greater China & Head of Asia Research at ANZ
It’s not in China’s best interests to devalue the yuan as it would go against two key priorities of its own government.
30 Jan 2018
Steve Dando
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Personal & Business Banker, ANZ
Say what you like about Bitcoin & crypto-currencies, the technology has innumerable upsides.
17 Jan 2018
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The level of interest in bitcoin is equalled perhaps only by the dollars pouring into it – and anything remotely associated.
12 Jan 2018
Christian Venter
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GM Digital Technology, ANZ
We’ve updated our longform explainer taking you through the ins and outs of something not many people fully understand.
16 Nov 2017
Mark Ebeling
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CTO Blockchain & FinServ, IBM
Blockchain for enterprise has emerged from a deeply technical world and out into the open – to the delight of investors & entrepreneurs.
04 Oct 2017
David Qu & Betty Wang
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China Markets Economist & Senior China Economist, ANZ
What will come of China’s attempt to strike a balance in its economy?
03 Aug 2017
Narayanan Somasundaram
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Economics & finance reporter
Iron ore and coal are having a surprising influence on the direction of the Australian dollar.
03 Apr 2017
Sanjeev Bajaj
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CEO ANZ India
Demonetisation has been the buzzword of India since the bulk of the country’s cash was removed from the economy at short notice. For many it was a shock to the system, with their economic lives grinding to a halt as the cash shortage disrupted their ability to pay, and also be paid.
08 Dec 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Traditionally conservative workplaces are slowly shifting to a new way of working as research shows knowledge-sharing initiatives like employee social networks can lift productivity by as much as 25 per cent.
05 Dec 2016
Shailesh Venkatesh
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Associate Director, Global Products, ANZ
The shocks of the US election, the Brexit vote – even India’s decision to eliminate high-value currency notes – are all stark reminders companies should prepare for the unexpected.
16 Sep 2016
Daniel Everett
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Global Head RMB Strategy & Execution, ANZ
Move over dollar, euro, pound and yen, there is a new player in town flexing its muscle and keen to dominate global currency flows. That at least was the plan of the Chinese authorities when it comes to internationalising its currency, the renminbi (RMB), for the best part of the last decade.
09 Sep 2016
Daniel Everett
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Global Head RMB Strategy & Execution, ANZ
Just on a year ago, China made a historic move towards a (theoretically) more market-determined exchange rate by changing the way its daily midpoint fixing of the yuan was calculated.
10 Aug 2016
Elsa Huang
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BlueNotes contributing editor
China’s renminbi (RMB) has become increasingly important to the world’s trade flows as country’s economy grows in global influence. That importance will only expand, especially in the wake of the decision out of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) to allow foreign investors to trade onshore cash bonds without limitation.
06 May 2016
Christian Venter
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GM Digital Technology, ANZ
There is a great quote from the start of the movie The Big Short by Ryan Gosling’s character Jarred Vennett. He says when the economy collapsed during the financial crisis, “none of the experts or leaders or talking heads had a clue it was coming. I’m guessing most of you still don’t really know what happened”.
21 Mar 2016
Steve Worthington
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Professor at Swinburne University
According to some of the world's central bankers, 'big noting' describes more than just the boastfulness of some individuals. It's a global currency trend.
15 Mar 2016
Max Tannahill
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Business Change and Implementation Manager, ANZ
It has been hailed as the internet of money, criticised for fuelling an illicit trade in drugs and weapons, allegedly aided terrorism, been touted as a libertarian dream and as a way of flouting capital controls (although actual use cases in China, Greece and Cyprus are hardly conclusive).
10 Mar 2016
Richard Yetsenga
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Chief Economist, ANZ
China's decision to devalue the renminbi (RMB) in late 2015 has led to a significant change in the way the country views itself economically and the broader outlook for the direction of its currency. Having just returned from China and a series of meetings with investors, corporates, regulators and commentators, I noted a stark shift in attitudes compared with my last visit six months ago.
01 Mar 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The ructions in China have inevitably shifted thinking around the role of China's currency, the renminbi (RMB). While China's stated long term aim is opening up its economy and internationalising the RMB, market turmoil and growth concerns have created new uncertainty.
29 Sep 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
A quarter of Australians have had it with cash. At least according to electronic payments network PayPal. The network's research found not only did 25 per cent of respondents not shop at cash-only businesses, more than half noted cash-only organisations were hard to do business with.
22 Sep 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Financial services companies around the world are signing up for consortia and joint ventures to keep pace with the accelerating digital disruption at a rate not seen… well not seen for a decade or so. Unsurprisingly, most of the latest partnerships orbit around financial technology, “fintech".
31 Aug 2015
Li-Gang Liu & Richard Yetsenga
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Former Chief Economist Greater China & Chief Economist, ANZ
Financial market turmoil has dominated economic news from China over the last month but has the volatility stalled the crucial move towards freer financial markets? BlueNotes put the key questions to ANZ China economist Li-Gang Liu and head of global financial markets research Richard Yetsenga
18 Aug 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Barely had anxieties over a collapse on Chinese share markets began to ease and stress levels were heightened again with the formal intervention to lower the RMB, followed by a market sell-off.
14 Aug 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
Unsettling economic data, an equities meltdown, now intervention in the Chinese currency market by the central bank. Signs China is stepping back from financial liberalisation?
12 Aug 2015
Li-Gang Liu
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Former Chief Economist Greater China, ANZ
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) surprised market by announcing it would use a daily fixing rate method to devalue the Yuan (the Renminbi or RMB). This was an historic decision as it signals a possible shift in short-term economic and financial dynamics across the world economy.
15 Jul 2015
Daniel Everett
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Global Head RMB Strategy & Execution, ANZ
I have many conversations about the renminbi (RMB) yet I almost never walk away without some new insight, perspective or appreciation of the opportunity emerging as China liberalises its currency and financial markets.
30 Jun 2015
Bernard Hickey
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Publisher at Hive News
There was a time through 2014 and early 2015 when New Zealand was dubbed a 'rock-star' economy to be envied and studied by its regional neighbours for its 'magic recipe.'
22 Jun 2015
Katie Hill
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Strategist, ANZ
Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Christopher Kent issued a challenge last week. He said it would be useful to look at different types of households to understand whether the transmission of monetary policy through the Australian economy was becoming less effective. We've taken up that challenge.
01 Jun 2015
Li-Gang Liu
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Former Chief Economist Greater China, ANZ
The International Monetary Fund is now conducting a review to consider including the RMB in the basket of Special Drawing Right (SDR) currencies and will make a final decision at the end of the year.
16 Feb 2015
Bernard Hickey
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Publisher at Hive News
The potential for the New Zealand dollar to rise to parity with the Australian dollar is a powerful symbol of how the neighbouring economies have diverged over the last three months.
17 Sep 2014
Craig Sims
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Group General Manager Operations & Services, ANZ
When it comes to innovation in financial services, mobile payment systems are one of the big game changers. More and more customers are banking digitally.
16 Sep 2014
Andrew Cornell
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Managing Editor, bluenotes
The banking industry has long reassured itself that even if customers don’t always like banks, they trust them. And trust is the over-riding base of a financial relationship.
15 Sep 2014
ANZ Research
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The Australian dollar declined sharply last week despite a wave of strong economic data. Surprisingly, the downward momentum in the currency was sustained in the face of extraordinarily strong Australian employment figures.
10 Sep 2014
Lance Blockley
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Managing Director Consulting, RFi Group
Speaking at the BlueNotes-sponsored Australian Payments Innovation forum 2014, RFi managing director Lance Blockley produced this slide, which provides a fascinating insight into where Australian cash is actually held.
28 Apr 2014
ANZ IIB Insights
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We will move, ultimately, to a world of multiple reserve currencies – but it will take more time to get there.