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Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... shareholder proposals seeking greater disclosure on gender pay equity at companies whose employees are fund members (Adobe Systems and TJX Companies). Local Government Super, meanwhile, had the strongest record for voting in favour of ESG related shareholder ...

Aussie financial firms struggle to manage risk: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... management is robust data and analytics, he said. "This means that financial institutions must prioritise risk data management systems, whilst ensuring quality, security and transparency, providing new reports for multiple purposes," Lopes said. "Robust ...

CBA coughs up $5m over RC case study

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... on loans and fees, and underpaid interest on savings. The bank attributed the failure to "the highly manual nature" of systems surrounding the package, as well as "CBA having no systems or processes in place to check whether customers were receiving ...

Dealer groups slam FPA policy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... understanding," the letter said. "Again, costs in relation to compliance with the Corporations Act are not discretionary. The scale, systems & processes, and risk management focus of the AFSL provides an efficient way to deal with the in-built cost of ...

38 staff punished over AUSTRAC scandal: Westpac

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... investigations into the AUSTRAC scandal. In a statement, the bank confirmed it should have recognised the faults in its systems earlier. "The report noted that, with the benefit of hindsight, and noting the boards escalating focus in the area, directors ...

Magellan to use BasisCode for trading compliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... an innovative and proprietary detection engine that can be seamlessly integrated into a firm's trading monitoring systems," the company said, adding it's the first product of its kind. "We are pleased that we were able to demonstrate that the BasisCode ...

Sargon liquidators want to dig deeper

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... been pursued in the courts and is contingent on further funding. The liquidator says it examined Sargon's accounting systems and found that it had interest payments of $3.9 million due to Taiping as at early January 2020. But it did not have enough ...

COVID-19 poses unique human rights threats

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... masks," Zandbergen said. "In Moscow, Russian authorities are reportedly using surveillance cameras, facial recognition systems and geolocation to enforce its quarantine regime and track infected individuals and their family members." On top of that ...

Wealth platform appoints technology lead

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... accomplished application architect and development manager with experience managing and implementing several mission critical systems development projects," she said. "He has over 20 years' experience in technology roles across a variety of industries ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... funds would need to make; there's not only the people, the execution and operational staff, but there's also the systems environment and other cost considerations such as the costs associated with compliance, risk, legal documentation, regulation ...