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Westpac obscured bad adviser reference check

BY KARREN VERGARA | FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018 4:32PM

The Royal Commission found Westpac downplayed the gravity of former financial adviser Andrew Smith's misconduct not only to the regulator but with another licensee he was joining.

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