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BOQ divests St Andrew's Insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... inappropriate life insurance sales tactics than the other firms under review. BOQ acquired St. Andrew's in 2010 from the Commonwealth Bank, taking over the core businesses of consumer credit and life insurance.

Commonwealth Financial Planning to shutter

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Financial Planning is closing, Commonwealth Bank announced today. From today forward, Commonwealth FP cannot take on any new financial advice clients. Existing advisers and clients will have until November 30 to work out next steps, before ...

Two senior leaders exit Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... he said. Prior to Iress, Blomfield was the chief executive of Investment Trends. He also held senior roles at Commonwealth Bank, MF Global and Dendiri Advisory. Group executive of strategy and client solutions Simon New takes over as chief commercial ...

End of the road for Dollarmites

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Bank has ditched its 90-year-old Dollarmites program after the state governments' banning of school banking schemes. The New South Wales government is the latest to jump on board and ban bank-run marketing schemes in classrooms after ...

BlackRock votes against CBA resolution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
Despite its vocal stance on sustainability and net zero ambition, BlackRock voted against a Commonwealth Bank shareholder resolution to stop the bank financing fossil fuels. The largest asset manager in the world, with US$9.5 trillion in assets under ...

Digital advice firm hires for institutional strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
... Investment Partners in 2004 prior to its acquisition by NMG Group. Baker was previously head of corporate super at Commonwealth Bank and director, head of products at Rothschild Asset Management. "Andrew has deep expertise and knowledge of the financial ...

EISS Super answers tough questions

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
... AvSuper Growth, BOC MySuper, Christian Super's My Ethical Super, Colonial First State's FirstChoice, Commonwealth Bank Group Super's Accumulate Plus Balanced, EISS Balanced, LUCRF Super's MySuper, Maritime Super's MySuper, BT Super ...

CBA completes review, sued by FWO

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Bank finalised its three-year action plan by implementing recommendations from a prudential inquiry to improve its governance and culture. At the same time, it has been slammed with court proceedings for underpaying staff over $16 million. ...

CBA to detect abusive banking behaviour

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Bank is implementing artificial intelligence (AI) technology along with machine learning to detect abusive behaviour reflected in transaction descriptions within its banking services. Developed in CBA's AI Labs, the technology will be used ...

Big four bank complaints drop

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2021
... financial year, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) said. Complaints about Westpac, ANZ, NAB and Commonwealth Bank fell 7% out of the total 70,510 received in 2020/21, coming in at 17,593 of the total 42,261 bank complaints. The top ...