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Funds services firm expands offerings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... Intertrust's existing offerings in Australia include accounting and reporting, corporate secretarial, payroll and KYC/AML services offered to private equity and real estate fund managers. The boutique wants to expand in the Asia-Pacific region with ...

ASIC drops CBA investigation

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... management and compliance at the bank." As of June 2018, the bank had spent over $400 million on systems and processes relating to AML/CTF compliance, Comyn said, as well as hiring senior leaders to oversee financial crime compliance. At the time, Comyn ...

AustralianSuper appoints head of financial crime

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... Sustainability Report. "One of the main objectives I have is to create centres of excellence for areas in the department - AML, fraud, business continuity, and will be about working across the fund and understanding how we will relate to different lines ...

Disgraced lobbyist charged

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... chief executive Marcus Andrade, along with Abramoff, raised at least US$5.6 million from more than 2400 investors by selling AML BitCoin tokens. The regulator found NAC and its chief executive had portrayed the AML BitCoin as being superior to the original ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic could lead emerging markets to lose the last decade in progress, as the world sinks deeper into a global recession far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to State Street Global Advisors head of global ...

ERS can be drawn from multiple funds: ATO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... measure is different to the usual process RSE licensees are expected to act in accordance with the ATO determination. "The AML/CTF Rule exempting RSE licensees from undertaking up-front customer verification means that RSE licensees will, in most cases ...

World rolls out stimulus

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
As Prime Minister Scott Morrison updated Australians about the measures being taken at home to stop the spread of COVID-19, other nations around the world have announced their stimulus packages to cushion the economic burden. The largest, unsurprisingly ...

Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... issues with its IFTI reporting, has cooperated with AUSTRAC's investigation and has commenced the process of uplifting its AML/CTF controls," the regulator said.

Afterpay slides in global fintech rankings

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... went after the firm, ordering an audit of its compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act (AML/CTF), with a final report due later this month. At the time Afterpay said it welcomed the opportunity to continue to work ...

AUSTRAC zeroes in on Afterpay

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... 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 and the oversight of decisions related to its ...