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Compliance gets interactive: Vignette

... YouTube way to verify whether a person using their credit card is authorised to do so. "The fact that you're going to a gambling site, you sign up, and then your wife gets the bill and asks, 'I need proof that this has actually occurred'... that's a ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... about 24 per cent and carbon steel materials were up about 60 per cent. The strategy of James Packer to direct PBL into gambling and the new media sectors such as the internet paid off with the company recording greater earnings in the gaming division ...

Intrinsic finds value in Islamic investing

... individual client and, as the name suggests, is guided by ethical principles. For example, the MDA does not invest in gambling, pornography, armaments, alcohol and tobacco shares. Woolley said that the pre-marketing of the product in Melbourne and Sydney ...

Let's get ethical: Hunter Hall

... fact the number of companies we can invest in is hardly reduced at all by our ethical screen. If you take out all the gambling, tobacco and other companies that we don't allow, we're not reducing the investment universe by a huge amount, and I really ...

ASIC comes down on financial services fraud

... Group, has been sentenced to eight years jail after being found guilty of fraud worth $2.2 million to fund a personal gambling habit. Craig John McKim pleaded guilty to seven charges under the Crimes Act, following an ASIC investigation, which alleged ...

CSS fraudsters appear in court

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2005
... strong case against Roizman, who intends to plead not guilty to money laundering. Video surveillance from a Hong Kong gambling cruise liner, the Captain Omar III, captured Roizman at a gambling table with the proceeds of the fraud, police say. Roizman's ...

International All Sports defends CBA claim

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2005
... Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd (CBA) that it should have known one of the bank's managers was stealing to feed his gambling habit. IAS today sent a letter to shareholders about the legal action taken by the bank in the Federal Court. "The directors ...

Private investors could be involved in Tattersal's float: report

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2004
Private investors could be invited to participate in the $2 billion stock market float of Victorian gambling company Tattersall\'s, it was reported today. The Australian newspaper said Tattersall\'s is planning to sell $300 million shares in November ...

Treasurer announces two appointments to Productivity Commission

... Mr Fitzgerald served as an associate commissioner on the Productivity Commission's landmark inquiry into Australia's gambling industries, and has also served on a number of other government boards and inquiries. Philip Weickhardt will join the Commission ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Resources push market despite Wall Street falls

... while oil and gas producer Woodside rose four cents to $14.00. Shares in UNiTAB Ltd and Tab Ltd jumped, after the two gambling operators announced plans for a $2 billion interstate merger. UNiTab was 27 cents richer at $7.02 and Tab earned an 11 cent ...