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CBA cops $25 million for BBSW rigging

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
Commonwealth Bank will fork out $25 million to settle its bank bill swap rate rigging scandal, adding to the bank's pile of settlement payouts. CBA will acknowledge it "attempted to engage in unconscionable conduct in breach of the ASIC Act" while trading ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Treasurer Scott Morrison, in his third Commonwealth Budget reports that government receipts rising 8.6% during 2017-18, compared to expenditure rising 4.7%, leaves Australia with an annual deficit of $18.2 billion and on its way to a modest $2.2 billion ...

Budget 2018: Social media reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
No sooner had Treasurer Scott Morrison uttered his first words of the 2018 Budget when social media commentators began having their say. Here's how Twitter reacted. "A stronger economy. More jobs. Guaranteeing essential services. The Government living ...

Fees for no service an old issue: AMP

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
Responding to Royal Commission findings, AMP says its fees for no service issue is old news; preparation of a Clayton Utz report into the issue has been overstated; and its misleading representations to ASIC have also been overstated. The 28-page response ...

CountPlus appoints chief operating officer

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
CountPlus named a new chief operating officer and appointed an advisory firm to assess merger and acquisition opportunities. Mark Chapman is the former chief executive of Bentleys Network. He joined the business advisory, accounting and audit firm about ...

NAB to divest MLC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
NAB plans to exit the majority of its wealth management operations, including divestment of Australia's largest retail MySuper product. While the bank will continue to service high-net-worth clients via JBWere, it is shedding the rest of its wealth ...

Research expert joins Fidelity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
Fidelity International announced the former head of Australian research at T. Rowe Price will join the $422 billion investment manager. As the new director of research, Sydney-based Viral Patel will be responsible for a team of 10 analysts. He starts ...

SMSFs ramp up LRBA and property allocations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
Latest ATO figures show self-managed super funds' interest in limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBA) and residential property assets have skyrocketed in the last five years. December 2017 quarterly data shows the sector held $31.4 billion in ...

CBA enters APRA EU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
APRA has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking from Commonwealth Bank, having determined the bank's operational risk management framework "worked better on paper than in practice." Releasing the final report of its prudential inquiry into CBA, the regulator ...

Nick Bolton back on ASIC radar

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
The former head of Keybridge Capital, whom ASIC banned from running a company in 2015, is being investigated by the regulator for allegedly acting as a "shadow director" of the company. Nick Bolton was previously Keybridge's managing director. He shot ...