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UK bans crypto exchange Binance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has banned well-known and popular crypto exchange Binance from operating in its jurisdiction. Binance, which is Cayman Islands domiciled, claims to be the biggest Bitcoin exchange and alt-coin cryptocurrency exchange ...

AUSTRAC investigates NAB, JBWere

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
National Australia Bank and its subsidiaries, including JBWere, are allegedly failing their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing obligations, according to AUSTRAC. The financial intelligence agency is investigating NAB's "potential ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
"The global economy has now returned to pre-pandemic activity levels." This was what the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) latest 'Economic Outlook' report revealed as it upgraded its projections for the world ...

UBS, Nomura cop fines over bond cartel

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
UBS, Nomura and UniCredit were fined a total of $585 million by the European Commission for cartel conduct in government bond trading during the GFC. EC says the three investment banks breached antitrust rules through the participation of a group of ...

CountPlus firm finalises merger

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... of the ASX-listed advice and accounting group's member firms has acquired an accounting and superannuation specialist. Cooper Reeves and 4Front Holdings have merged and will now be rebranded to 4Front. CountPlus will sell its Cooper Reeves shares in ...

Former Franklin Templeton retail head finds new role

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... in business development at a fund manager. Manuel Damianakis has been appointed senior business development manager at Cooper Investors. He confirmed to Financial Standard that he joined this month and will be based in the Sydney office. Damianakis was ...

Vanguard Super appoints board

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... firm Herbert Smith Freehills specialising in superannuation and financial services law. She was also a consultant to the Cooper Review, and a member of Vanguard Investments Australia's external compliance committee. Duffield was the founding managing ...

Bernie Madoff dies in prison

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
The architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in US history has died in prison aged 82. Bernie Madoff had been serving his sentence at FMC Butner, an administrative security federal medical centre for male offenders located in North Carolina, at the time ...

Super for house deposits will push up prices: ASFA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... major superannuation reviews (including Productivity Commission, Royal Commission, Retirement Income Review and Jeremy Cooper and David Murray's reviews) have recommended early release of superannuation for housing. Australia currently does allow people ...

Trading platform slapped with licence conditions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... wholesale clients. The Sydney-based team is headed by chief executive Rajesh Yohannan and chief commercial officer Louis Cooper. The new conditions on its licence will force the firm to maintain a minimum of three equivalent full-time compliance staff ...