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Philippines halts all trading

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
The Philippines Stock Exchange (PSE) has announced it will halt trade until further notice, making it the first nation to close markets. The PSE made the announcement to the stock market, saying the decision is to ensure the safety of employees and ...

Westpac facing new class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... heightened risks, the Company did not carry out appropriate due diligence on transactions in South East Asia and the Philippines that had known financial indicators relating to child exploitation risks," Rosen Law alleges. Westpac confirmed the class ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... burning across Australia, storms and tornadoes striking the US, torrential rainfall in Dubai, a volcano erupting in the Philippines, and news that the world's oceans reached new temperature highs in 2019. The sobering report released by the World ...

Regulators circle as scandal engulfs Westpac

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... by Westpac's international money transfer product LitePay, some relating to financing child exploitation in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Byrnes said APRA is working closely with AUSTRAC and ASIC. "We are actively looking at the issues, but ...

Westpac halts short-term bonuses, culls Litepay

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2019
... organisation, International Justice Mission, in a move to stop Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC) in the Philippines. The bank will also match the current level of funding for the government's SaferKidsPH partnership with save the Children ...

Westpac faces 23 million breaches

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2019
... child exploitation risk. "[Westpac failed to] carry out appropriate customer due diligence on transactions to the Philippines and South East Asia that have known financial indicators relating to potential child exploitation risks," AUSTRAC said. "Westpac ...

VGI Partners readies $1bn Asian fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia," Luciano said. "We will maintain a watching brief on India, mainland China and the Philippines but will not be investing in companies listed in these jurisdictions for the foreseeable future." Alignment shares Investors ...

Intiger makes global operations head redundant

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... operations redundant as it ramps up cost cutting initiatives. Sharon Wright was appointed to oversee teams in India and the Philippines in May 2015. Her role was made redundant in light of the ASX-listed financial planning technology firm scaling back ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... not just about China, Hong Kong-based Treves pointed out. ASEAN, which includes Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, is the third most populous region and the sixth largest economy in aggregate. Even before the trade tensions began, many ...

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... Money talks, prayers walk. This appears to be the overriding theme in the upcoming May 13 mid-term elections in the Philippines where "foul-mouthed and murderous" president Rodrigo Duterte's preferred senatorial and congressional candidates lead ...