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Australian banks among most fined

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... breached anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing law. The other two Australian bank fines in 2020 both went to National Australia Bank. One was $57.5 million in the fees for no service scandal and the second was $15 million for credit law ...

Chief economist update: Japan's five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... contraction has eased to minus 5.8% from negative 10.2% in the June quarter. The details are even better with the National Accounts showing that household consumption contributed 2.7 percentage points to the 5.3% quarterly growth in September. Updated ...

Deutsche Bank expands Australian operations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... of corporate bank Peter Connor said. "Cash management will expand our footprint by servicing a larger set of our multi-national corporates," he said. "Clients have been asking us to introduce cash management services for some time now, so we're excited ...

Boutique hires from MLC Asset Management

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... and LaSalle Investment Management Securities. Cochran said the hire is to broaden distribution lines, primarily through national dealer groups, model portfolio inclusion and managed accounts. "Rebecca will be actively engaging with senior research, consulting ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... away." Victoria's good news is good news for Australia as a whole. Victoria accounts for around a quarter of the national economy. The state's reopening would unleash Victorian households' pent-up demand and revive consumer spending that ...

BT cuts Wealth Connect

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... 50, and will instead transition to its customer relations team. The strategy shift would see the role of Wealth Connect national manager of super, platforms and investments be "no longer required", with managerial positions across direct wealth, super ...

Financial advice more important than ever: HUB24

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... driven from both new and existing licensee channels across self-licensed and boutique advisers, brokers and large national accounts," it said. "This includes advisers winning new clients as well as funds being transitioned from incumbent platforms." ...

Australian Ethical hires from BlackRock

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020
... advisory sales across Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. Prior to joining BlackRock, she was the national head of business development at Wingate Asset Management. She also spent six years at BT Financial Group working exclusively ...

NAB fined over fees for no service

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
The Federal Court of Australia has fined National Australia Bank $57.5 million over deceptive and misleading conduct. The proceedings commenced in 2018 and were initially brought by ASIC against NAB units NULIS and MLC Nominees for the charging of plan ...

Chief economist update: Australia succumbs to pandemic-induced recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... already feeling it deep right through our bone marrows - but the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest National Accounts report made it official, Australia is in recession! Australian economic growth contracted by 7.0% in the June quarter ...