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CBA opens up compensation review to all advice clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... and proper behaviour and customer satisfaction." Reflecting on the bank's approach to the scandals and the Senate investigation, Narev admitted that "the business believed that it was taking the right approach and therefore it tended to see other observations ...

Former WealthSure financial adviser gets jail time for fraud

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... its game" and added that the bank has handled the scandals within its financial planning businesses and the Senate investigation "appallingly." Hockey spoke this weekend at the Liberal Party's federal council, which took place in Melbourne. "I think ...

BNP Paribas board approves $9bn fine

AFP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... the bank's deals from 2002 to 2009 with countries like Cuba, Iran and Sudan that are blacklisted by the US. The investigation probed more than $US100 billion ($A108.20 billion) of transactions, finding that $US30 billion ($A32.46 billion) of that amount ...

ATO closing in on undisclosed offshore income

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... penalty of 10% and full shortfall interest charges, and will not be investigated by the ATO or referred for criminal investigation on the basis of their disclosures. The ATO is asking some people to explain offshore transactions and suggesting that they ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... be in a market economy." Finance Minister Matthias Cormann also dampened ideas about the possibility of a deeper investigation and made comments aftre reading a 'dissenting report' by the deputy chair of the committee, Liberal Senator David Bushby. "'He ...

Senate inquiry reccommends Royal Commission into CBA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... professional bodies, industry bodies, consumer groups, accountants and financial planners. The committee also asked for an investigation by the Commonwealth Ombudsman into the allegations that suggested that ASIC had a conflict of interest when it granted ...

Senate FoFA conclusions expected today

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... uncertain, as the government is reportedly expecting to hear the conclusions of the Economics Committee's parallel investigation on the performance of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). This inquiry was prompted by the regulator's ...

Financial Wisdom to face class action for poor advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... wrong behaviour by one of its financial advisers, Rollo Sherriff, were exposed by a recent joint Fairfax and ABC investigation. Shine Lawyers is inviting people who engaged the services of Meridien Wealth before June 22, 2012, to attend the meeting in ...

UBS adviser banned from financial services industry

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... Services (AFS) licence from September 2005 to April 2013. An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found that Konjevic had not adhered to various UBS codes of conduct and was likely to have misled his employer and UBS ...