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State Street cops $125m penalty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
State Street has paid more than $125 million to settle charges for adding undisclosed markups on expenses related to the custody of client assets. In a settlement, State Street Bank and Trust Company has paid $125 million (USD88 million) after the Securities ...

Westpac names business arm chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... investments and superannuation moved into an expanded business arm. Moving BTFG in-house will see the departure of Brad Cooper, who has served as chief executive for more than nine years. Cooper will see through the transition of the businesses into ...

AUSTRAC zeroes in on Afterpay

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
Tech-darling Afterpay is feeling the regulatory heat after AUSTRAC ordered an audit of the fintech's compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act (AML/CTF) laws. AUSTRAC said an external auditor will examine Afterpay's governance ...

Sunsuper, corporate super fund merge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
Sunsuper has completed another merger, integrating a 74-year-old corporate superannuation fund. CBH Super, the Perth-based corporate super fund of the CBH Group, was merged into Sunsuper on April 29. It marks Sunsuper's fourth merger in the last ...

Fire drills needed to meet APRA standards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
APRA's new enforcement approach to cyber security may mean financial services firms have to conduct fire drills - where fake viruses or phishing attacks are deliberately spread in their systems - to work out the strength of their systems. APRA released ...

Former NAB adviser charged

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2019
A former NAB financial adviser has been charged with two offences following an investigation by ASIC. Max Kiattisak Eung of Tempe, New South Wales was charged with two offences of obtaining financial advantage by deception. It is alleged that between ...

Super leaves retirees vulnerable: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... addresses consumer needs and improves the comfort and confidence of retirees." Challenger retirement income chair Jeremy Cooper agreed, and said while the system was "doing a good job" of helping Australians save for their retirement, more needed to ...

APRA to up the ante

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
APRA's new enforcement strategy will see it toughen up, but its safety-first approach will be retained. The prudential regulator released its new enforcement strategy alongside the enforcement review that commenced in November after its enforcement ...

Westpac appoints acting advice GM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... will see the departure of Westpac consumer bank chief executive George Frazis and BT Financial Group chief executive Brad Cooper. Financial Standard understands there will be more changes to Westpac's current advice leadership team once the sale to Viridian ...

Founder leaves SMSF Association

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... as the chief executive or non-executive director." "The fact every major inquiry into superannuation, starting with the Cooper Review in 2010, has largely given the SMSF sector a clean bill of health is a testimony to what she helped achieve over this ...