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Commodities trading accountant jailed

ASIC RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The former accountant and company secretary of the now defunct commodities trading group Bustan gets a two-and-a-half-year jail term for cooking the books. Claire Horsman, who worked for the Bustan Group between 1999 and 2001 received the jail sentence ...

Make love not leverage

... clearly displayed on the placards they waved. 'Capitalism isn't working'. 'Make love, not leverage'. 'Eat the Bankers'. 'Banker, rhymes with ?'. But thousands of kilometers away across the Atlantic, the atmosphere was different. Wall Street was upbeat. ...

Westpac account promotion misleading

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009

Bonus hocus pocus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
So it was written, so it was. No more bonuses. Taxpayers hate that. The government threatens to regulate against that. Hmmm...what can we do? Last Friday, I wrote about the futility of introducing new regulations to ensure that the current global financial ...

Sovereign adds two principals

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
Sovereign Investment Research has appointed John Peterson and Helen Murdoch as principals. Peterson previously worked at the Reserve Bank between 1979 and 1983 and then joined Bankers Trust Australia. During his time at Bankers Trust Australia he worked ...

NAB gambles on its IFS model

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... business. About IFS, Healey said: "If you go to one of our business banking centres you will find a traditional business banker plus a private banker plus a transaction banker and a risk banker. "In other words, within the local operation these capabilities ...

Perpetual appoints joint quant head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Perpetual appointed Ganesh Suntharam as joint head of firm's quantitative investments business. This announcement follows the appointment of Vasant Khilnani as Suntharam's co-head of quantitative investments. Both Suntharam and Khilnani were promoted ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
US First Lady, Michelle Obama, shows us the future - and it does not look good. Wall Street and European equities tumbled again while we were sleeping. Part of the reason was disappointment that the much-awaited Chinese medicine was not potent enough ...

NAB deploys Telstra tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... designed to improve NAB's telephone banking experience, as customer enquiries are directed to the most appropriately skilled banker in an efficient transaction. Telstra led the sale and implementation of VeConnect as part of the bank's new customer service ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
What happens in Rome stays in Rome. Or so it should have been were it not for the sudden resignation of Japan's Finance Minister following the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers on Valentine's Day. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi ...