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Spirit Super member data exposed after security attack

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
... Spirit Super data incident has resulted in approximately 50,000 member records from 2019/2020 being compromised. The data breach occurred on 19 May 2022 when a Spirit Super staff member's email account was caught up in a broad phishing attack campaign. ...

ASIC bans financial adviser for five years

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Sydney financial adviser Walter Yaolong Guan has been banned for five years after operating without a licence. ASIC found that between March 2017 and August 2021, Guan, through his company Perennial Growth, carried on a financial services business when ...

Federal Court rules against RI Advice in cybersecurity case

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
The Federal Court has found RI Advice breached its obligations as a licensee by failing to have adequate systems in place to manage cybersecurity risks, leading to several incidents that put client information at risk. In what ASIC says is an Australian ...

Breach reporting regime a distraction: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
A survey of compliance professionals has found 67% believe ASIC's breach reporting rules distract from other issues and the greatest proportion of reports filed relate to financial advice failures. A report from CoreData, Lawcadia and Gadens looks ...

NAB evades AUSTRAC fine for non-compliance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
National Australia Bank (NAB) has avoided a civil penalty for issues related to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML-CTF) laws. Unlike the Commonwealth Bank and Westpac which received gargantuan fines for AML-CTF breaches, NAB ...

Maritime Super slapped with infringement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
Maritime Super, which is soon to merge with Hostplus, has been hit with an infringement notice by ASIC over alleged misleading statements to members about its partnership with Hostplus. In a significant event notification and a newsletter sent to members ...

Six cases brought against Westpac now finalised

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
The six Federal Court cases brought against Westpac by ASIC late last year have been finalised, with the banking giant to pay a total of $113 million in penalties. A decision in the final of the six matters, all overseen by Justice Beach, was handed ...

'No easy answer' to ESG disclosures by super fund trustees

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2022
... also be labelled as deceptive conduct by the Act. Subsequently, such actions can be reportable to ASIC as a "significant breach." A catch-all disclosure requirement in the Corporations Act technically required RSE licensees to disclose anything that ...

ASIC takes Federal Court action against Macquarie Bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2022
ASIC has started civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Macquarie Bank Ltd over alleged failures to monitor third party withdrawals from customer accounts. The corporate watchdog said that limited monitoring by Macquarie of transactions ...

Border rule-breaking former adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2022
Mark Babbage, the financial adviser who was jailed last year for breaching Western Australia's tough border restrictions to attend the AFL Grand Final, has been banned from providing advice for 10 years. Babbage was arrested by Western Australia police ...