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Moneysoft acquired by MUFG Pension & Market Services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2024
... Solutions chief executive Dee McGrath said. "Moneysoft's cloud-based capabilities in Open Finance and the Australian Consumer Data Right, Financial Planning System integration and financial advice automation will provide our clients the ability to create ...

Fund manager splashes $240m on AZ NGA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... retail and wholesale clients. We will work together to achieve our shared vision of AZ NGA as Australia's leading consumer financial services advisory firm." The transaction is due to finalise before the end of the year, subject to regulatory app ...

Retirement calculators 'can't be counted on': SCA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... helping members, research from Super Consumers Australia (SCA) has found they often fail to produce reasonable results. The consumer advocate reviewed the country's largest super funds to check whether they had a retirement calculator and assess their ...

ACCC approves Lendlease, Stockland property deal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) won't block Stockland and Thai property developer Supalai's plan to acquire 12 of Lendlease's 16 residential community projects, but there are strings attached. The masterplanned communities ...

Inflation cools but RBA unlikely to budge

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
The monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicator rose 2.7% in the 12 months to August 2024 - down from 3.5% in July, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Falls in fuel (-7.6%) and electricity (-17.9%) were significant ...

Vanguard to pay $13m in greenwashing case brought by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
Vanguard will pay a $12.9 million fine after being found guilty of greenwashing earlier this year. It marks the largest penalty ever imposed by the Federal Court for such conduct. In March, the Federal Court found Vanguard misled investors via claims ...

ASIC slaps Macquarie with record $5m fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2024
ASIC imposed a record $5 million fine on Macquarie Bank for its failure to curb suspicious order transactions on electricity futures. ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) found Macquarie breached market integrity rules on 50 occasions between January ...

ART, Perennial back debt collection fintech

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... renowned venture funds, along with existing investors reinforcing their belief in our mission to change the world of consumer debt for good - and our proven ability in delivering on this." Craig Blair, co-founder and partner at Airtree, said: "InDebted ...

Lack of talent challenging DDO compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... assess and monitor third-party distributors, poor quality suitability questionnaires, and do very little monitoring of consumer outcomes and product performance after a product has been distributed. In turn, it identified a tendency to inadvertently ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
In August, Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker recorded the highest level of mortgage stress since it first began tracking in early 2019. More than two in five (42%) homeowners struggled to pay their home loan in August with an estimated 1.4 million ...