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Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
Rising concerns that the $1 trillion investment bank bail-out breaches the US constitution are making it difficult for Congress to quickly approach the bill. At Senate Banking Committee hearings on Capitol Hill, Senator Christopher J Dodd, a Democrat ...

No more short cuts

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
UK's financial services regulator has stepped in to ban the shorting of UK bank shares and other financials from today until January next year - mirroring the US regulator's move to tighten rules on short-selling to thwart speculators from causing more ...

New tech counters terrorist attacks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
Logica has created a new software that helps prevent funds from being used by terrorists, reduces risk and provides cost-effective compliance for investment managers and banks. Tech company Logica recently launched HotScan Plus - an automated transaction ...

FPA disciplines 13 members

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
The Financial Planning Association has taken action against 13 of its members for breaches of the organisation's professional standard. FPA had investigated 130 members for alleged breaches from January to March this year. Four members were expelled ...

Race to the pump

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
Fill up now, and expect to pour more cash into the tank next time, as new supply problems and increasing tensions in the Middle East have the price of oil flirting with US$94 a barrel for the first time ever. It's official; the price of oil has climbed ...

Planners should not face criminal charges: FPA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... financial planners who have made administrative oversights. "A jail sentence of up to five years is clearly an excessive sanction for failing to provide, what is in essence, a confirmation of advice already given orally. A criminal sanction should be ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
Australian stocks were down across the board at midday, as profit-takers moved in and the local bourse bucked a mixed international lead. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 44 points lower to 5951, while the all ordinaries lost 39.6 points ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
The Australian market is expected to open in the black, although Wall Street has not provided a strong lead, wobbling to a mixed finish on Friday as better-than-expected economic data was offset by worries that US trade sanctions slapped on China might ...

Online customer checking tool launched by Deloitte

... World-Check's comprehensive database of people and companies considered to be of a high or heightened risk including 100 sanction and embargo lists. Intelligence contained in World-Check is gathered from over 200,000 sources worldwide." Phillipps adds ...

Fraud reforms to cost much more than FSR

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2004
The cost to Australian businesses of reforms directed at money laundering is expected to be very large and take at least three years to implement, the 2004 Australian Fraud Summit heard yesterday. Speaking on money laundering and terrorist financing ...