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Vale Michael Murray

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
... working with Mike over the past three and a half years since joining the company, and Mike's warmth, decisiveness and counsel was invaluable to me. "Undoubtedly, Mike touched many of your lives across his stellar 27-year career, as he did ours." Murray ...

AZ NGA welcomes head of M&A

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2023
... NGA) has appointed Yasemin Onat to lead future mergers and acquisitions. At the same time, Andrew Symes joins as general counsel and company secretary. The firm recently added the role of general counsel role to its standing company secretary position. ...

Allegro unveils PwC entity as Scyne Advisory

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2023
... undertaking to hold to account the PwC Australia leadership team, including former chief executive Luke Sayers and the legal counsel from 2015, who devised the strategy of the abuse of legal professional privilege to subvert the proper enquiry by the ...

Mercer appoints three new directors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2023
... J.P. Morgan and Sunsuper. Former APP Securities chief executive Sangeeta Venketasan and State Super senior investment counsel David Hartley have joined the Mercer Investments (Australia) and Advance Asset Management boards. Meanwhile, Infrastructure ...

Large AFSLs lead advice complaints: AFCA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
Financial advisers from large aligned AFSL groups bear the brunt of complaints, according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority's data, with several AMP and Insignia Financial practices leading the pack. Modelling of the AFCA data shows ...

Geoff Lloyd to chair Stake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... and investing in fintech start-ups both locally and internationally. In his new role at Stake, Lloyd will provide senior counsel to the executive team, assisting the brokerage platform in sustaining "exceptional standards" and "unlocking maximum value" ...

BNPL to be regulated under Credit Act

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
The government has handed down its plan to regulate buy now, pay later (BNPL) providers and products under the Credit Act to strengthen consumer outcomes. Historically, BNPL schemes have been exempt from tough regulation as they do not charge interest ...

AMP fined $24m for charging deceased customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... wrongfully charging premiums and advice fees to over 10,000 superannuation accounts, during 2019 and 2020. AMP Group general counsel David Cullen said in response: "We have made strong progress in becoming a customer-focused and purpose-led organisation ...

AFCA appoints lead ombudsman, investments and advice

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... Natalie Cameron was named lead ombudsman for banking and finance. Previously, Singh has worked both as an in-house legal counsel and for regulators including WorkSafe Victoria and the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria. He then trained and worked ...

US regulator sues crypto giant, chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2023
... the CFTC will not tolerate willful avoidance of US law." CFTC enforcement division principal deputy director and chief counsel Gretchen Lowe further added the defendants' emails and chats reflect its compliance efforts have been a "sham." "Binance ...