This Bill seeks to ensure that Australian entities will be able to comply with new international margin requirements for non-centrally cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions, which are due to come into force from September 2016. The purpose of the Financial System Legislation Amendment (Resilience and Collateral Protection) Bill 2016 (the Bill) is to amend the...

This Quick Guide provides a brief overview of the current debate about whether advanced economies are caught in a period of protracted slow growth or if there are grounds to be more optimistic. What is ‘secular stagnation’? Robert Solow has defined ‘secular stagnation’ as ‘a persistent tendency for a national economy (or group of them)...