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Australia behind when it comes to pay transparency: AXA IM

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... Referring to the recent $700m civil settlement between CBA and AUSTRAC over the bank's contravention of anti-money laundering and counter terrorism laws, Christensen said executive pay was becoming difficult for companies to justify to shareholders ...

AI to transform financial services: Deloitte

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... significant value. "There is huge potential for industry collaboration on issues as broad as fraud prevention and anti-money laundering controls, often run inefficiently and ineffectively in the current environment," Lipman said.

ASIC defends enforceable undertakings at Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... following: the customer's objectives, financial situation and needs...with the purpose of complying with the Anti-money Laundering and Counterterrorism Act 2006 always regulation or AML/CTL rules under that act. ANZ pushed back. The final EU that ...

Financial crime taskforce puts two behind bars

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... March 2021. In 2006, the Australian Taxation Office and Australian Federal Police began investigating large-scale money laundering and tax evasion schemes based in Vanuatu. In turn, it led them to the activities of Agius and Castagna, who are cousins. ...

CBA settles with AUSTRAC for $700m

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Commonwealth Bank will pay $700 million to resolve civil proceedings brought against it by AUSTRAC for contravening anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws - almost double what it anticipated. CBA has announced it reached an agreement with AUSTRAC ...

Cryptocurrency service providers now regulated: AUSTRAC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... exchanges now face the same regulatory requirements of other regulated financial institutions under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006, requiring financial institutions to monitor transactional activity and report suspicious ...

CBA and AUSTRAC agree to mediate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... event mediation is unsuccessful. In December last year, CBA admitted to systems glitches leading to breaches anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws on more than 53,000 occasions. In filings submitted in response to the proceedings commenced ...

FinTech Australia appoints interim chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... goods and services tax for digital currencies, and bringing digital currency exchanges under Australia's anti-money laundering regime; Reducing the barriers to entry for the establishment of new digital challenger banks; Establishing the consumer data ...

CBA denies majority of latest AUSTRAC allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
CBA said it denies most of the additional 100 anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing allegations handed down from AUSTRAC last December. In its submission to the Federal Court, CBA said it "denies 89 allegations in full and admits 11 ...

SEC cracks down on fee transparency

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... assessment, access rights and controls, data loss prevention, vendor management, training and incident response. Anti-money laundering (AML) programs are currently underway, to ensure firms are appropriately adapting their AML programs to meet regulatory ...