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Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
The number of data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) rose 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications ...

NZ Super appoints inaugural chief operating officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... tax, external audit process, and corporate strategy. Steed will also spearhead its business solutions, cloud operations, data technology, cyber security, and service desk, the fund said. Steed joined the super fund as its general manager in finance and ...

TPD claim settlements take 'considerably longer': Rainmaker

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... process, while death claims appear to have more efficient processes in place. According to Rainmaker's latest benchmarking data, a total of 43,000 claims were filed for death and TPD in the 12 months to June 2024 among group insurers. This was split ...

'Lunatic' tariffs can directly hit Australia: Academics

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
Australia can get hurt by US President Donald Trump's 'incoherent' and 'lunatic' tariff policies that appear to have no logic or endgame if China's economy experiences a drastic slowdown, academics say. Australian National University ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... buying side, because, after all, there's US$2 trillion in dry powder sitting in private equity coffers," he said. Although data reporting for private assets tends to lag, he said there may've been "some uptick" in deal activity in the fourth ...

HESTA members to keep paying fees as disruption continues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
... as we know that, while in the short-term it may be challenging, this transition will provide the technology platform and data capabilities to better service our members in the years ahead," they said. "Our contact centre and member engagement teams are ...

Macquarie reprimanded again for derivatives compliance failures

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... practices, unclear roles and responsibilities, and an incomplete understanding of its own processes and controls, including around data governance. The bank will now have to prepare a remediation plan to address its failures in the futures dealing business ...

Channel Capital launches Apollo asset-backed credit trust in Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... types, which includes residential mortgages, credit cards, student loans, infrastructure royalties, and more. According to data from SIFMA, JP Morgan, Apollo and the Financial Stability Board, asset-backed finance is collectively making up to a US$20 ...

Platinum merger no cure for active managers' challenges

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... equites, although it also employs long/short strategies and maintains an absolute-return focus like a hedge fund," he said. Data from Morningstar Direct shows that roughly 40% of L1's retail and wholesale funds under management (FUM) have grown between ...

Frontier Advisors lands major mandate from asset management giant

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... Nissay managing director Yuichi Tanaka said its NAVIS platform, which offers pension clients access to a suite of market data, tools, and resources for asset allocation planning, represents an industry first in the Japanese corporate pensions market. ...