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Thomson Reuters partners with platform provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... institutions with the ability to manage transactional and reputational risk and now enables users to undertake anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorism financing (CTF) and politically-exposed people (PEP) due diligence via integration with Thomson ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... of consumer protection on data privacy, information security, dispute resolution as well as fighting fraud and money laundering and regulation is needed to minimise these risks." Director of payments at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Marion King, said ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... wrongdoing and non-compliance by SMSF trustees; capturing rollovers to SMSFs as a designated service under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 ; and establishing a register of SMSF auditors has all helped to reduce organised ...

Digital currency continues to be monitored: RBA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... digital currencies have the potential to raise more immediate concerns over issues relating to taxation, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules and consumer protection.

NAB, ABS insider traders jailed

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
After being charged in 2014 for insider trading, money laundering and abuse of public office, two men have been sentenced to jail. Reportedly Australia's largest insider trading scheme, the two men's activities resulted in profits of roughly $7 million ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... transactions, SMSF bank verification, SMSF roll-overs being included as a 'designated service' under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006, and taxing super benefits received illegally at the top tax rate, are no longer part ...

'Leaner' HSBC hikes profits, bonuses

BEN PERRY, AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... that pre-tax profits missed market expectations. Net profit had stood at $US14.03 billion in 2012, when HSBC was hit by US money-laundering fines, mis-selling scandals and a huge accounting charge. Group revenues meanwhile dipped five per cent to $US64.6 ...

Advisers should train to fight tax evasion: FPA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) should train financial advisers on identifying and avoiding cases of tax evasion and money laundering, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) said. The FPA general manager of policy and government relations Dante De Gori told ...

ASX managed funds services gets ASIC nod

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... currently consulting the industry with a view to amending a rule to allow product issuers to rely on the anti-money laundering (AML) checks done by brokers rather than having to duplicate this check again themselves under the AML/CTF Act. Submissions ...

Free service may help advisers bypass FoFA costs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... the Financial Standard. "If we are given the client details once only, and are given what's required for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism rules, we can use that to prepopulate forms for any institution." Curve's revenue comes from banks, which ...