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Cyber criminals jump on ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... cartels," Simms said. "The ACCC aims to prevent Australians from falling victim to scams by raising awareness, sharing intelligence and working with government and the private sector to reduce opportunities for scams to occur." Simms said the ACCC have ...

AFCA creates new role

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... minimise the issues that give rise to complaints in the first place. AFCA is passionate about using our data and intelligence to assist our members and consumers," Locke said.

Another sentenced in ATO fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... account," Day said. "This was part of an elaborate and complicated scheme, but our sophisticated approach, combining intelligence and specialist powers of taskforce agencies, means tax criminals will come unstuck." During the course of investigations ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... an additional 175,000 transactions that were not reported to AUSTRAC, while 365,000 were reported to the financial intelligence agency but contained irregularities. It comes after Westpac announced in its 2020 Interim Financial Results in May that it ...

Woman jailed in $105m tax scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... crime to account. "This was part of an elaborate and complicated scheme, but our sophisticated approach, combining intelligence and specialist powers of taskforce agencies, means tax criminals will come unstuck," Day said. "Tax crime affects everyone. ...

US surpasses Asia Pacific for HNWI growth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... models to be more agile and resilient. Analytics and automation as well as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, can enable firms to enhance revenues through better client experiences while reducing costs by streamlining processes."

AustralianSuper throws weight behind SDG platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP). The platform will be driven by artificial intelligence data with the aim of enabling investors to assess companies on their contribution to meeting the UN Sustainable Development ...

Crypto investment opportunities outright scams: ASIC

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... year, with Australian consumers falling victim to opportunistic scammers. ASIC executive director for assessment and intelligence Warren Day said COVID-19 had created a perfect storm. "Australians are at risk of being scammed and losing money, and scammers ...

ATO doubles down on fraud crackdown

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... fraud and fraudulent attempts or people developing schemes to try to steal money from the community. "We've received intelligence about a number of dodgy schemes, including the withdrawal of money from superannuation and re-contributing it to get a tax ...

Melbourne boutique partners with Swiss bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... Middle East, in line with a traditional sub-advisory, fee share agreement. In turn, Bell will help UBP with market intelligence on Aussie institutionals, as the Swiss bank sends down a distribution lead from its Geneva office to Australia to establish ...