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Suncorp nabs business, private banking executive

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
Suncorp has hired a former business and private banking executive from the Commonwealth Bank, set to guide the group's path towards digitisation and automation. Adam Bennett has nabbed the chief information officer role, and will join Suncorp from July ...

FSU calls for NAB staff to audit pay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The Finance Sector Union of Australia has called on NAB staffers to audit their own pay, as the bank kicks off an investigation into staff underpayments. It comes after NAB announced last week it would be launching an independent investigation into ...

Centuria launches takeover bid

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
The ASX-listed $7.2 billion real estate investment manager has launched a takeover bid for New Zealand-based Augusta Capital, set to acquire the firm's remaining shares for $122 million (NZD$130 million). It comes just over a month after Centuria Capital ...

SEC charges COVID-19 microcap scammers

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Five people and six offshore entities have been charged over an alleged fraudulent scheme which sought to capitalise on the COVID-19 pandemic through the illegal sale of microcap stocks. The US Securities and Exchange Commission allege the scheme, boosted ...

Zenith defends LICs/LITs

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
Zenith Investment Partners maintains that there is still merit in listed investment companies and trusts, despite volatile market conditions exacerbating their propensity to trade away from their underlying value. Zenith head of real assets and listed ...

HESTA adds to operations team

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
HESTA has appointed a former Morgan Stanley vice president, set to develop the industry super fund's investment data capabilities. Feroz Jordan has nabbed the role as general manager of investment data and systems in HESTA's operations team, effective ...

A-REIT winners, losers of the 'new normal'

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Both structural and cyclical headwinds threaten to impact Australia's real estate investment trust sector, with clear winners and losers emerging as the country gradually reopens. That's according to Pengana Capital Group portfolio manager Amy Pham ...

Aussie financial firms struggle to manage risk: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Australian financial firms are struggling to keep up with the pace of technological change, with two thirds of executives revealing that risks are emerging more rapidly than ever before. More than 70 Australian senior risk executives from the major ...

Iress opens retail capital raise

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Financial services software company Iress has opened up a capital raise for eligible shareholders, as it moves to raise a further $20 million to help partly fund its proposed acquisition of OneVue. It comes following the completion of the company's ...

CBA coughs up $5m over RC case study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
ASIC has trumped the Commonwealth Bank for failures in its AgriAdvantage Plus Package, with the Federal Court of Australia ordering the bank to cough up a $5 million penalty. On Friday, the Court found that the bank had breached the ASIC Act and Corporations ...