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Scholarships open for women in finance and superannuation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
Industry groups for women help narrow the gender gap in senior management by providing executive education scholarships for women in finance and superannuation. On Wednesday, Women in Super announced its 2019 scholarship program in partnership with ...

ASIC flags post-RC criminal prosecutions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... Commission case studies, ASIC is also looking into a number of instances of misconduct involving major financial institutions and individual representatives. "ASIC expects these investigations to result in a number of referrals to the Commonwealth Director ...

Royal Commission sobering and overdue: Labor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... said it was a document that was sobering and long overdue. "This is a dark day for Australia's banks and financial institutions," Bowen said. He went on to say these institutions should work on an ethical basis. "They should be strong, they should be ...

Institutions respond to Royal Commission, make commitments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
Australia's largest financial institutions said they are committed to improvement following the release of Royal Commission's final report. Landing yesterday, the report was scathing in its assessment of banking executives. Commissioner Hayne said the ...

Misconduct must end: Frydenberg

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... entities concerned and those who managed and controlled those entities." "Too often the conduct within our financial institutions has been in breach of existing laws and fallen well below community expectations. The price paid by our community has been ...

Chief economist update: Good jobs bad jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... permanency of their future incomes. No one expects part-timers to splurge on a home mortgage. Banks and financial institutions won't open mortgages to part-timers (that is, of course, pending the findings of the Royal Commission). That said, the ...

Former Liberal Party leader joins Islamic super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... such as weapons manufacturing, alcohol production and sales, gambling, pornography and interest-earning financial institutions, such as banks," Yassine explained. "We offer an attractive alternative based on socially responsible investing and place funds ...

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... efforts of the for-profit sector had proven fruitful. "The research points to an army of lobbyists - and the financial institutions that employ them - having been very successful in persuading governments to go light on regulation," Clarke said. "This ...

APRA grilled over superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... now would trigger APRA to investigate further?" Hodge asked. "Unfortunately, these are all too common in financial institutions," Byres said. "So I think the supervisor would certainly follow up with the institution concerned to find out more details ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... offerings and their use of AI-driven regtech solutions," Lawrence said. Looking inwards, only a third (38%) of financial institutions are confident they themselves understand the legal risks of the AI technologies they are adopting. Only 7% of the surveyed ...