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Willis Towers Watson director departs for LIC

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... years. She had previously worked with multinational finance and insurance company AIG as an underwriter for financial institutions for three years. Kelly has worked with Willis Towers Watson for more than eight years, most recently as a director of investment ...

AUSTRAC releases guidance on wildlife trafficking

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... regulates to help them detect suspicious financial activity and report it to the regulator. The guide suggests financial institutions can identify illegal wildlife trafficking by assessing a combination of financial indicators; including assessing large ...

DTCC launches advisory service

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... insights on operational model designs. DTCC has partnered with Quorsus to provide the consulting services to financial institutions in the form of post-trade technologies, operations, regulatory solutions and infrastructure. The service will initially ...

MySuper funds face new test, member bans

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... until they improve. The government is planning to fund this by increasing the levies paid by regulated financial institutions. Overall, it said it will provide $159.6 million over four years from FY21 to implement the reforms to superannuation. Three ...

InvestPro appoints Australia lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... operational resilience." InvestPro entered the Australian market in 2017 and has been used by a number of financial institutions to remove unit pricing errors in funds and improve operational oversight and resilience. FRS chief marketing officer Frank ...

Westpac reaches $1.3bn AUSTRAC deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... behind large corporate pay-outs. This new regime will ensure that executives and senior managers of large financial institutions are subject to large civil penalties, disqualification, or deferred bonuses for breaches of the law."

State Street cops $1.25m fine from AUSTRAC

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... failure to report certain incoming international funds transfer instructions, as required by AUSTRAC of financial institutions operating in Australia. We have been working with the regulator on this issue, having identified and self-reported the deficiencies ...

VFMC director nabs global role

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... America and Caribbean chief executive. Prior to this, he Gamba worked as a consultant with AT Kearney's financial institutions business, and started his career off at consumer goods company Procter & Gamble. He has been working with CFA Institute ...

Super funds to face parliamentary grilling

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... Wilson said the hearings are an important part of the committee's scrutiny of the four major banks and other financial institutions. "Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic a significant number of Australians have accessed their super to support ...

Ignition Advice announces fintech partnership

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... its client base Through the partnership Ignition's digital advice solutions will be offered to 150 financial institutions in over 30 countries with clients including Barclays, HSBC, Societe Generale, Crestone Capital Advisors and Deutsche Bank. Ignition's ...