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Northern Trust expands fixed income trading capability

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
Northern Trust has launched its Integrated Trading Solutions (ITS) fixed income outsourced trading capability in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The expanded offering, provided through Northern Trust Securities in Australia, targets fixed income trading ...

Former director sentenced for misappropriating investor funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
The former director of Reiwa-Capital has been sentenced to home detention after he was found guilty of misappropriating $440,000 of investors' funds, including gambling some of it. Russell Sandiford was sentenced to two years and eight months imprisonment ...

Sequoia ends FY24 with 350 advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2024
Sequoia Financial Group gained a net of 14 financial advisers to end up with about 350 representatives at the end of the 2024 financial year. Sequoia added 70 advisers to the stable but lost 56, most of whom were from "non-economic practices who closed ...

MA Financial eyes growth with Warburg Pincus, Flexicommercial

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024
... to our local market." "We have identified asset financing as an attractive lending space for some time. The rise of the broker channel is creating more options for borrowers and a more level playing field for non-bank financiers to provide customers ...

Recordkeeping breach costs RBC, BNY Mellon US$85m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2024
... and their personnel to maintain and preserve electronic communications". This is according to the SEC, which charged 26 broker-dealers, investment advisers, and dually registered broker-dealers, and investment advisers. The SEC found "pervasive and longstanding ...

Expand bolsters SMA menu

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2024
BlackRock, DNR Capital, Elston, Lonsec and Zenith have been added to the Expand Extra menu, doubling the wrap platform's separately managed account (SMA) offerings. The additional investment managers complement the current fleet of MLC Asset Management ...

AFSLs can lose licence on CSLR intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
AFS Licensees (AFSLs) and their professional indemnity insurers (PII) that fail to pay a determination will potentially see their licence revoked if the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) has to intervene. CSLR chief executive David Berry warned ...

Institutional investors embracing crypto: GDF

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
Global Digital Finance (GDF) suggests that digital assets are becoming quite popular with institutional investors. Conducting a global survey of 100 executives, GDF found almost all participants (93%) have handled Bitcoin in some shape or form. Meanwhile ...

Beaconsfield takes control of New Quantum

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
... non-trading holding company with operating subsidiaries including wealth management software platform New Quantum and options broker Morrison Securities. The appointment of receivers follows the company being placed into voluntary administration last ...

Bitcoin ETF price war: VanEck, Monochrome cut costs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2024
VanEck has cut the management fee for its Bitcoin ETF (ASX: VBTC) to 0.49% per annum, just days after Monochrome Asset Management made a change. The ETF provider said the decision followed more than $18 million flowing into the fund since its launch ...