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Financial services exposed to high cyber risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
The increased potential for financial gain is making financial services businesses a greater target for malware attacks, with these now more likely than any other form of cyber security incident. This is the key finding of new survey results published ...

Virgin Super sees Mercer takeover

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... Under the agreement both Virgin Money Australia and Mercer will jointly market Virgin Super. Mercer financial services business leader Andrew Godfrey said the deal represents a strategic expansion for the future of Mercers' wealth business by partnering ...

IRESS partners with UK wealth firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
IRESS has entered a long-term strategic partnership with a $46 billion wealth management firm in the UK. The technology firm has developed a wealth platform for Tilney Bestinvest, which manages assets for private clients, charities and financial advisers. ...

ASIC hands down permanent and four year bans

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... result the companies were required to hold an AFSL Capital Alternatives and Velvet Assets carried on a financial services business without holding an AFSL and so contravened s911A of the Corporations Act Woodcock was involved in this contravention by ...

Unlicensed property investor jailed for six years

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... deception, two charges of obtaining a financial advantage by deception and one charge of carrying on a financial services business without a license. Patrick invested in properties by nominating investors as directors of Wrestway Property Development ...

Rice Warner strengthens team

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
Financial services business adviser Rice Warner has appointed a new senior consultant to its team. Joining the industry consultant is Andrea McDonnell. She has more than 30 years' of consulting experience in the insurance, superannuation and employee ...

Ostrava wound up, directors banned

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... has made orders winding up Ostrava Equities and eight other companies associated with the Ostrava financial services business. The court also banned Bradley Grimm and Vanessa Ash, who is lawyer formally employed by ASIC, from providing financial services ...

Unlicensed product adviser receives four year ban

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... providing financial services for four years after it was found he had unlawfully carried on an unlicensed financial services business. Ronald Cross, chief executive and director of Park Trent Properties Group was banned after the Supreme Court of NSW ...

ASIC drops Macquarie AFSL conditions

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... financial services licensees can expect to see instances of non-compliance from time-to-time. An effective financial services business is therefore not expected to be a business that always avoids compliance issues, but rather a business that supports ...

Mercer appoints senior partner

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... Pacific market leadership team. Godfrey has held several senior and high impact roles within Mercer's financial services business over many years and was most recently promoted to the role of Mercer's financial services leader in April last year.