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Labor backs ASIC data retention authority

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus voiced his support for amendments to the Government's data retention bill which authorise the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to retain telecommunications data for the purposes of investigating ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... Commission (ASIC) - has reportedly threatened to clamp down on hyper speed trades. Reuters reports that New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman already "has begun meeting with the US exchanges, which include IntercontinentalExchange Group's New ...

FBI launches probe into high speed traders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... looking into whether trading firms were granted information ahead of institutional investors. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has also recently expressed his own reservations about the practice. "There are situations where there really ...

Tarrant appeals AAT banning order

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... not wilful, breach," the tribunal said. Tarrant will now appeal this decision on the grounds that former ALP Attorney General Justice Duncan Kerr has denied him "procedural fairness, as well as, natural justice and has made a number of errors of law ...

BlackRock ends "unfair" analyst surveys

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... advantage to elite and technologically sophisticated market players at the expense of others in the market." New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman secured an agreement with BlackRock -- the world's largest asset manager -- to permanently discontinue ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... in issuing credit ratings, but the evidence we have uncovered tells a different story," said Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West, in a statement. "Our investigation revealed that, despite their representations to the contrary, S&P's concerns ...

Senior members announced to Industry Super Network board

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... appointed former Victoria Premier Steve Bracks as chairman of its board. Meanwhile former minister for health, attorney general and treasurer of the NSW parliament Peter Collins will commence as deputy chair. Bracks was Premier of Victoria for almost ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... scheduled to speak at an Institute of Company Directors Lunch in Hobart, while Western Australian Treasurer and Attorney General Christian Porter are to address a FINSIA lunch in Perth. In Australia, the market on Thursday, closed sharply weaker on negative ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... Ltd chairman Clive Palmer addresses Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Brisbane, and Federal Attorney General Robert McClelland addresses an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia luncheon in Melbourne. On Wednesday, the Australian ...

No pension for corrupt Bell staff

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... the pension accounts of city officials, one of whom allegedly earned a 'secret' annual salary of US$800,000. Attorney General Edmund Brown subpoenaed hundreds of employment, salary, and contract records in the city in California called Bell. The city's ...