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Facebook, Google face crypto class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
Sydney-based law firm JPB Liberty has filed a class action against Facebook and Google for the losses suffered by Australian cryptocurrency providers after their bans on cryptocurrency advertising. JPB Liberty is seeking damages for the losses the cryptocurrency ...

Pahari sorry, victim calls for documents

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... [Boe Pahari] during this evening and one moderate and two minor incidents which overall added up to a relatively modest breach of the AMP Workplace Behaviour and Equal Opportunity Policy," Burns' conclusion to the report said. "However this involved ...

ASIC takes action against RI Advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... the server, which contained sensitive client information including identification documents. FFG did not detect the FFG breach until 16 April 2018, more than three months after it had commenced," ASIC said. In 2018, ASIC said RI Advice became aware of ...

Law firm demands Pahari documents from AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Maurice Blackburn wants AMP to hand over documents relating to its handling of sexual harassment complaints before it will consent to the Pahari report being released to the public. Yesterday, AMP said it would publicly release its report into complaints ...

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank to face fresh class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
Enrolments in a fresh class action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank on behalf of investors in the Great Southern managed investment scheme are being finalised this week. EQ Legal director Sasha Ivantsoff told Financial Standard that 850 entities including ...

AMP, CBA, Westpac face potential class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
The financial advice arms of AMP, Commonwealth and Westpac are all facing a potential class action from law firm Piper Alderman. The law firm is calling on any customers who have acquired, renewed or continue to hold a financial product on recommendation ...

Pershing convicted for client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Corporations Act and the Corporations Regulation. Pershing was fined $15,000 for a breach where the transferring sale proceeds from international trading in client's securities from trust accounts into its general ...

Adviser jailed over $2m Ponzi scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... transferred overseas. In sentencing Miller, the judge described his conduct as a "Ponzi scheme" involving a "significant breach of trust" and a "cruel and deceitful betrayal inevitably leading to financial disaster". The judge also ordered reparations ...

Macquarie fired 32 people in "consequence management"

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
During the Macquarie Group annual general meeting and results update chair Peter Warne touched on the bank's "consequence management", highlighting the consequences of inappropriate behaviour. He said that in financial year 2020, there were 164 matters ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
Westpac's money laundering woes continue to worsen, with the bank today announcing it has uncovered hundreds of thousands of additional transactions of $10,000 or more that are "incomplete or inaccurate" to AUSTRAC. After further investigation, the ...