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Expert issues cyber-attack warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... fraud attacks such as account takeover and identity fraud," she said. "Faster movement of funds means less time to investigate suspicious activity." Fraudsters are using the US and UK infrastructure to move payments quickly through multiple accounts ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... financial crime." The Government will provide $127.6 million over four years to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce to investigate and prosecute cases of superannuation and investment fraud, identity crime and tax evasion. The taskforce is a continuation ...

ASIC says AUD spike "not misconduct"

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
ASIC has provided an update on its investigation into the suspicious spike in the Australian dollar that occurred seconds before the RBA announced it was keeping cash rates on hold at 2.25% on April 7, finding that so far it has been linked to automated ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the clock is ticking for the industry to implement the recommendations in the Trowbridge report. Alex Burke investigates what that might mean for risk advice. "It is up to the industry now to restore public confidence ...

Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... Australian pension fund." Credit Suisse said that American pension funds are "much more likely to have the resources to investigate alternative strategies like activism." But the paper noted that, with strong inflows into superannuation over the next ...

Combined Insurance to work with ASIC on fraud leak

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... Combined Insurance Asia Pacific executive vice president Christopher Carey has said his company will "work with ASIC" to investigate the misconduct exposed by whistleblower Alison Moore. A former employee of the ACE Group-owned insurance firm, Moore ...

Fintechs issued AFSL warning

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... the law firm, Claire Wivell Plater, said start-ups dabbling on the fringes of financial services should carefully investigate whether what they are doing requires them to have an AFSL or ACL. "These businesses need to get expert advice at a very early ...

ASIC to investigate AUD spike

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... third parties may have been aware of the RBA's decision prior to its release to the public. "ASIC confirms it will investigate a spike in the Australian dollar shortly before the Reserve Bank's monetary policy decision today," ASIC's statement said. ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... public to let us know because we will put the information together and we will put the appropriate authorities to investigate," he said. Greens' Senator Peter Whish-Wilson agreed that "it has taken whistleblowers and leaked documents on all occasions ...

Baird to launch Sydney not-for-profit "fintech hub"

ALEX GAMBOTTO-BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... Chalk") will provide technology start-ups with, as Baird put it, "subsidised office space to collaborate, network and investigate venture capital opportunities." Former AMP chief executive Craig Dunn has been appointed project chair and DEXUS Property ...