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BT advice boss lands new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... platform's products to them. Xplore's senior leadership has seen significant change - the chief executive stepped down in February, the board's chair moved to an executive director role the same month, the chief financial officer changed ...

HSBC chief abruptly resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... as the bank considers internal and external candidates to replace him. Flint succeeded Stuart Gulliver as chief on 21 February 2018. He joined HSBC in 1989 and helped establish and expand the HSBC global markets business in Asia. His various roles across ...

ANZ scraps individual bonuses

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... remuneration structure was a key initiative it set out for itself in response to the Royal Commission's recommendations in February, and said staff still need to satisfy specific conduct and performance requirements to earn variable remuneration in the ...

Former adviser cops 20-year prison sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... worth $51 (US$35). She then used the loan to pay off investors and her own personal expenses. When the loan defaulted in February 2016, Bennett claimed to be unaware of the default as she had been in China for the preceding eight months. However, investigators ...

Xplore continues hunt for chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... quarterly update, confirming the appointment of a new chief executive is still pending. David Heather stepped down in February on "mutual terms" after four years in the top job. Since then, former chair Don Sharp has been in the acting chief executive ...

FASEA exam results expected soon

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... analysis." The organisation has also extended the registration period for exams coming up in September, December and February 2020, giving advisers another chance to fit the exams into their end of year planning. Additionally, FASEA has supplemented ...

Final nail in the coffin for grandfathered commissions

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... commissions was a key recommendation in Commissioner Kenneth Hayne's final report on the Royal Commission released in February which made 76 recommendations that the government agreed to implement. "The government's reform will benefit retail ...

Lloyds, pension fund pay $250m settlement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... will pay $250 million in compensation to Standard Life Aberdeen following its attempt to pull a $186 billion mandate in February 2018. Lloyds Banking Group and its subsidiary, Scottish Widows, reached a final settlement with Standard Life Aberdeen in ...

ASIC sues ANZ over unlawful fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
... customers is in excess of $50 million for 1.3 million occasions of unlawfully charged fees, dated from 1 January 2008 to 23 February 2016. "At the heart of ASIC's action is the fact that ANZ continued to charge the fees during the 2003-2016 period, despite ...

Open Banking gets another shot in parliament

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... voluntarily launched the first stage of Consumer Data Right on 1 July 2019. The next stage of Open Banking is due in February 2020 and will give consumers access to information banks hold about them and power to require banks to share that information ...