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NAB, MLC face class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... meaning MLC and NAB contravened the ASIC Act. Acting on behalf of customers, the law firm believes NAB knew that its credit card insurance was likely to be of little use - given the majority of cardholders were existing NAB customers - but nonetheless ...

Retail super funds in hot water: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... institutional relations; Clancy's wife was a shareholder in the company. CSF's inappropriate use of its corporate credit card - Clancy for example incurred $46,000 of unauthorised expenses - fell below community standards, Hodge added. Hodge ...

Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... profile of tobacco in aggregate." Vontobel has "dialled up" investments in high-growth staples and stocks such as credit card company Mastercard and Unilever at different points in time to make up for the divestments. The manager did not disclose what ...

Customer data protections progress

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
Wealth management firms have an opportunity to set the course around how they better deliver customer-oriented solutions following the Federal Government's release of draft legislation on the Consumer Data Right. The Consumer Data Right is aimed to ...

CPA Australia scraps advice offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... Australia also announced a review of management expenses by an independent third-party will result in new policies for credit card and expense management systems and processes being introduced.

Listed fintech partners for financial wellness

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... position and creditworthiness. It also provides customisable debt reduction smartphone apps to automatically pay-down credit card and loan debt. A survey conducted by Wisr found 48% of employees had experienced stress in the workplace because of their ...

Macquarie merges private wealth businesses

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... and banking business will have no impact on BFS's retail banking strategy which includes home lending, deposits and credit card solutions for consumer clients. Macquarie head of wealth management Bill Marynissen said concentrating on one client segment ...

ASIC tightens grip on ICO issuers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... Centra Tech Inc. allegedly deceived investors by making claims about nonexistent business relationships with major credit card companies, fictional executive bios, and misrepresentations about the viability of the company's core financial services products. ...

Royal Commission case study: advice put retirement in ruins

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
A Westpac case study analysed by the Royal Commission has demonstrated the devastating impact of inappropriate financial advice. Providing testimony in the first case study of inappropriate advice to be explored by the Commission, former Westpac customer ...

Industry welcomes final Better Banking report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... products on offer by more than 50 per cent, cutting transaction fees for 1.3 million customers, offering a low rate credit card, and removing ATM fees." Hartzer also outlined that the report demonstrated the commitment of Westpac in implementing the ...