A class action over the collapse of Walton Construction has argued the National Australia Bank cannot shield communications with Norton Rose Fulbright and Deloitte because they were made to further a fraud or otherwise had an illegal or improper purpose.
ANZ has told a court it had no obligation to disclose a $750M bailout by the underwriters of a $2.5B equity capital raising in 2015, in ASIC’s case alleging the bank breached its continuous disclosure obligations by failing to alert the market to the bailout.
A senior ANZ executive was “deeply concerned” by the size of the shortfall in its $2.5 billion 2015 equity capital raising, the court heard on the first day of trial in ASIC’s civil penalty case against the bank over alleged disclosure breaches.
A court has wound up Ascent Investment and Coaching, after ASIC filed proceedings against the company and director Michael Dunjey over concerns that investor funds may have been improperly dealt with.
The High Court has agreed to hear the appeals of two former Dick Smith exes following judgments that awarded a total of $55 million in damages to NAB and the receivers of the defunct electronics retailer.
The competition and consumer regulator is examining how banks set interest rates on savings accounts and why they are not in line with the Reserve Bank’s cash rate increases, as part of an inquiry launched in February.
The High Court has rejected investment group Mayfair 101’s bid to challenge a $30 million penalty following a judge’s finding that it misled investors about the risk profile of its financial products.
Retailers represented in a class action against Tyro over an EFTPOS outage will get 40 per cent of a settlement with the fintech after a funding commission and fees are deducted.
The National Australia Bank and its former head of repo trading both “might need a bit of a reality check” in a discovery stoush, a judge has said in a case alleging the senior employee was bullied and paid less than other workers because of her gender.
Liquidators of Sargon Capital are pursuing a claim for $4 million against super trustee firm Diversa and are investigating potential insolvent trading claims against the collapsed fintech’s directors.