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ESG risk tool launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... regulations; climate vulnerable regions; corruption and instability; poor workplace safety standards; frequent work stoppages and privacy regulations. In phase one of its rollout, it maps out a 'risk exposure' of more than 50,000 business and geographic ...

Adviser appeals ASIC ban

EMMA RAPAPORT, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... conduct to obtain life insurance for a client who was otherwise unlikely to obtain it; and committed a serious breach of privacy involving a number of client records. While Tindall is an authorised representative of Synchron, at the time of the incident ...

Westpac fortifies commitment to data protection

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... management and policy management solutions that are designed to reduce the risk of customer data breaches, identity theft and privacy. QuintessenceLabs founder and chief executive Vikram Sharma said the partnership with Westpac - which began in 2015 ...

NAB admits data bungle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... statement made on 16 December 2016, NAB executive general manager, international branches Peter Coad said: "We take the privacy and the protection of our customers' personal information extremely seriously. We also take full responsibility and we sincerely ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which argued ...

New platform allows super funds to share data with partners

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... encrypted state, and then produces de-identified insights that both companies can see, without compromising the security or privacy of the data. Super funds and their partners will effectively have joint visibility of customer demographics, via an easy-to-use ...

DeVere chief defends Panama privacy

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
DeVere Group chief executive Nigel Green has come out in support of "Panama-style" financial privacy. In a statement, Green said that while he supports Panama's efforts to "enhance its effectiveness and credibility" as an offshore financial centre and ...

Governance reform not targeting industry funds: O'Dwyer

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... governance reforms for superannuation funds are not targeting the not-for-profit sector in a speech where she cited the privacy breach at Cbus as a sign that the current system is "out of step" with the rest of the economy. Addressing the Committee for ...

Cbus Royal Commission findings impact industry

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... information on Lis-Con's employees from Superpartners in order to pass that information on to the CFMEU in breach of the Privacy Act and the company's contracts with members. In doing so they used their position to gain an advantage for Brian Parker ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... "As hidden payments are not subject to regulation, there are also concerns about the lack of consumer protection on data privacy, information security, dispute resolution as well as fighting fraud and money laundering and regulation is needed to minimise ...