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Symantec warns on tax time cybercrime

... of unsuspecting individuals received emails purportedly from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) requesting for their credit card details. Matthew Drake, director of consumer sales for Symantec Australia, said that one of the ways that financial planners ...

GESB aligns with foreign bank for member services

ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007

Western Australia's flagship public sector super fund GESB has negotiated an alliance with the HSBC group to provide banking and financial services to its members including home and personal loans and credit cards. A commitment to delivering better ...

Kiwibank fined over lack of disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007

... consumer advocacy group CHOICE has published an analysis of similar fee disclosure problems with currency conversion on credit card transactions among Australian banks. www.thesheet.com

Finance firms fail customer satisfaction test

... of products and services do you offer for individual customers?" and "Do you facilitate online transactions with a credit card?", and recorded the time it took for the finance company to answer them. Among the key findings were that only 42 per cent ...

Inflation could still rain on the parade

SUZY MAC | MONDAY, 30 APR 2007

Interest rates may be on hold for another six months and we could see a larger than expected cash surplus resulting in multi-billion dollar pre-election tax cuts. Fears of increasing consumer spending impacting inflation would already seem justified ...

PE boom poses risks: IMF

CHRIS NICHOLLS | THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007

... issued on them, had the potential to spread to the 'Alt-A' market, as well as structured credit products and even credit card and sub-prime car loan asset-backed securities, the report said. While neither of these risks - the private equity frenzy and ...

Identity data costs less than $20

... monitored black market prices in the US for a variety of personal information types including bank account numbers, credit card numbers, date of birth and Social Security Number. Symantec noted that the low price suggests that the ID fraudsters are selling ...

Time to look at Gen Xers

... is the 'soft sell' where super funds provide useful and general investment advice on their website, from how to pay credit card debt to what a home loan is, as a way to win Gen X clients. "We don't care if you are a super fund...what we care about is ...

Less internet banking fraud at ANZ

WWW.THESHEET.COM | MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007

... fraud ANZ is reinforcing aspects of its recent paid media strategy that play up similar themes in respect of reducing credit card fraud. Other banks in Australia, so far, haven't made a competitive issue of internet banking fraud. Westpac's co-operative ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007

... up 9.6 per cent. While the consumer front may look promising from this consumer index viewpoint, concerns over the credit card market were expressed at the interim profit announcement by CBA chief Ralph Norris where it was noted that strong competition ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN | 12:33PM

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA | 11:56AM

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI | 11:09AM

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA | 12:20PM

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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