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Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Westpac's money laundering woes continue to worsen, with the bank today announcing it has uncovered hundreds of thousands of additional transactions of $10,000 or more that are "incomplete or inaccurate" to AUSTRAC. After further investigation, the ...

Stimulus, ERS pushes spending up 17%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... spending in Australia was up 17%. However, so much of this increase came from people taking out their super and receiving bonus $750 payments that without these stimulus measures there would have actually been a decrease in spending. When those who were ...

Perpetual top brass cop six-month pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams and chair Tony D'Aloisio are taking a 20% cut on their base salaries for six months from July 1, as the company also shrinks variable remuneration company-wide in response to COVID-19. The rest of the group executive ...

Forex Capital to face Federal Court

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
The corporate watchdog has kicked off civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against contracts-for-difference and FX broker Forex Capital, as well as its sole director. If found guilty of all allegations, director Shlomo Yoshai ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... considered to be a CGT event, so deferred tax liabilities are released on retirement. Some APRA funds now pay a pension transfer bonus to partly compensate their members, but it is not as efficient as an SMSF." Rice Warner said as APRA funds contemplate ...

Chief economist update: UK plans for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... labour market. "A Plan for Jobs" contained three basic initiatives: Supporting jobs. "UK Employers will receive a one-off bonus of £1,000 for each furloughed employee who is still employed as of 31 January 2021." Creating jobs. "The plan will also create ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 nightmare makes Brexit a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
June 23 marks the fourth year anniversary of Brexit - the day a referendum was held (and Britons voted in favour of) the United Kingdom leaving the European Union (EU). The uncertainty (horror) of it all sent Sterling's effective exchange rate diving ...

CBA coughs up $5m over RC case study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... customers during the 10-year period, which promised them benefits in the form of fee waivers, interest rate discounts and bonus interest on savings in exchange for package fees on 22 of the bank's products. A total of 8659 customers were impacted ...

Advice job market not all doom and gloom

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... benefits of the extra study they now have to do under the FASEA requirements. Of course, attractive base remuneration and bonus structures and the potential for equity in the business and profit share is also appealing. "With the rise of working from ...

ASX-listed brokerage appoints managing director

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... is set to receive a $300,000 pay cheque each year, inclusive of superannuation, and will also receive a performance-based bonus dependent upon criteria established by the brokerage platform's board. He will also receive one million ordinary shares in ...