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Warren Buffett allegedly conned by German company

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Schulz. However, about three months later in May, Berkshire started to investigate the company after a tip off from a whistleblower, The Guardian reported. The German manufacturer fabricated at least 47 business deals by photo-shopping letterheads of ...

ASIC releases weekly regulatory tracker

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... ASIC said key business as usual functions will be maintained including registry operations and services, receipt of whistleblower, breach and misconduct reports and general contact points for industry.

Whistleblowers rewarded US $570k

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... rewarded for their efforts with the Securities and Exchange Commission awarding them a combined US $570,000. The first whistleblower received US $478,000 and the second US $94,000. The SEC did not reveal which cases the whistleblowers helped to crack ...

NAB accused of greenwashing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
... not only focus on NAB's environmental sustainability measures but on social and governance issues including its whistleblower policy and customer remediation program.

ASIC to survey whistleblower policies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
ASIC plans to survey whistleblower policies of a sample of companies next year. The regulator said it plans to review the selected companies compliance with the legal requirements outlined in the new whistleblower protection laws. This comes as ASIC ...

Whistleblower calls out approved product lies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... (AFSLs) are funneling new clients into in-house products, potentially in breach of Best Interest Duty obligations. Whistleblower Jeff Morris has urged the government to ban the use of APLs by vertically-integrated advice licensees, saying the industry ...

AMP hires head of whistleblowing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... Anne-Marie Paterson steps into the role, joining AMP from Commonwealth Bank where she was the executive manager and whistleblower investigation officer. Prior to joining Commonwealth Bank, Paterson was executive counsel/special counsel at Workdynamic ...

Super trustees to formulate whistleblower policies

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
The corporate regulator is expecting superannuation trustees to have whistleblower policies in place 1 January 2020. ASIC is broadening the whistleblower regime introduced on 1 July 2019 in an effort to reform to the corporate sector. It is proposing ...

Document leak puts NAB under the pump

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
An internal whistleblower has pushed NAB back into the spotlight, leaking documents revealing the extent of the embattled bank's risk management difficulties. As reported by The Sydney Morning Herald, minutes from a June 2018 meeting between NAB ...

Whistleblowers given new protection

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... whistleblowers is a key component of corporate governance. We encourage companies to implement a strategy for dealing with whistleblower reports they may receive in line with the legislative requirements." Large proprietary companies, public companies ...