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Perth adviser faces jail over $1.5m fraud

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2007
A Perth financial adviser has had 12 new charges added to the 33 charges he was already facing over a $1.5 million fraud. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) brought the 12 new charges against Antonio Pisano in Perth Magistrates ...

Westpoint Recovery Fund still in pursuit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... guarantee you that we will bring all the dirty linen out into the open in the interests of getting the victims of this massive fraud some justice - and money."

Don't forget to lock and back-up: Symantec

... backed-up over the Christmas break because the holiday season is also the peak time when they are most vulnerable to financial fraud. With many people taking their well-earned break over the holiday period, Symantec director Paul Lancaster said that ...

Beware of Christmas credit card fraud

... to watch their credit card transactions over Christmas as high credit card usage over the period increases the chances of fraud. "In recent years, Australians on average spend between 15 per cent to 25 per cent more on their credit cards in December ...

Ex-FAI financial controller sentenced

Antony Boulden, 42, a former financial controller of the corporate and professional insurance division of FAI General Insurance Company (FAIG), was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment to be served by periodic detention. Boulden was sentenced after earlier ...

Wealth managers will have difficulty with AML

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
... wealth managers adopted the attitude that, because they were low risk, AML was not really an issue for them. Lock is the AML, fraud and compliance domain expert at the software and consulting group Fortent and was in Sydney this week talking to local ...

Banks take a softly, softly approach to electronic banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Banks believe greater use of electronic banking services will result in a lower incidence of payment fraud, but they are taking a very cautious approach to change. Since October, amendments to the Uniform Consumer Credit Code have meant that a debtor ...

Return to sender costs millions: QAS

... Commonwealth Securities and Asgard as clients. And QAS also caters for the banking sector with their software detecting potential fraud committed by people who apply for multiple credit cards or loans using fictional or slightly changed residential address ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... than $1 million annually as part of its effort to scrutinize those more likely to partake of significant tax evasion or fraud.

Former NAB adviser gets 8 years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
A former National Australia Bank (NAB) financial planner has been jailed for eight years for dishonesty and fraud relating to nearly $6 million of misappropriated funds. Following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation ...