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Westpac fined $26m for financial hardship neglect

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026

... personal loans and car loans, contacted the bank on financial hardship grounds between 2017 to 2023 via subsidiaries St George Bank, Bank SA and Bank of Melbourne. Westpac blamed the oversight on "technology failure". On the contrary, Justice McEvoy ...

Geoff Lloyd to lead Perpetual wealth spin-off

ELIZABETH FRY | THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2026

Former Perpetual chief executive Geoff Lloyd will become executive chair of the fund manager's wealth platform following its recent acquisition by Bain Capital. Earlier this week, Bain agreed to buy Perpetual Wealth Management, which has $21.9 billion ...

Acenda completes C-suite with fresh appointment

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2026

... human resources for the bank's Australian and New Zealand retail operations, general manager, human resources at St George Bank, and most recently chief customer and engagement officer in Westpac's consumer and business banking division. The appointment ...

BBY manager charged with aiding and abetting

KARREN VERGARA | WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2023

... strategy, facilitated the transfer of large sums of client money that was meant to be held on trust. Yuen instructed St George Bank on 13 June 2014 to transfer $6.8 million of client funds out of BBY's futures client segregated account, a client money ...

BBY chief charged with aiding and abetting fraud

KARREN VERGARA | TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2023

... or procured offences by another former BBY employee, who dishonestly obtained a financial advantage for BBY from St George Bank. "The financial advantage was obtaining additional funding by way of improperly drawing down on an overdraft facilitation ...

Former BBY operations lead sentenced

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023

... financial advantage. Between June 2013 and May 2015, while BBY's head of operations, Fiona Mae Bilton deceived St George Bank in related to the amount of BBY's unsettled equities trades for the benefit of the company. In doing so, she claimed additional ...

Charges laid against former BBY head of operations

CASSANDRA BALDINI | TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2022

... been charged with three counts of dishonestly obtaining a financial advantage. Bilton was found to have deceived St George Bank on 115 separate occasions between June 2013 and May 2015. The charges are concerning her involvement in obtaining overdraft ...

KPMG promotes two super experts

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021

... on July 1. She joined the consulting firm in March 2016, having previously worked at BT Financial Group, Asgard, St George Bank, Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie. Storniolo also spent over four years at the Financial Services Council prior to joining ...

Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR | WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021

... 2011 and 2017, customers who received financial advice from Westpac-aligned financial advisers through Westpac, St George Bank, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA and BT Advice were sold needlessly expensive life insurance. According to Shine's case, these consumers ...

ING announces head of wealth, chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON | FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020

... and its customers," he said. Prior to joining ING, Evans spent more than 16 years with the Westpac Group across St George Bank, BT Financial Group and Westpac. Evans was head of superannuation and platforms at BT before taking on the role of chief of ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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