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NAB event planner Helen Rosamond sentenced to 15 years for $19M fraud
Financial Services 2023-07-20 4:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

Former director of event management company the Human Group, Helen Rosamond, has been sentenced to a 15-year aggregate term of imprisonment for defrauding NAB of $19 million, and will have to serve eight years of the sentence behind bars.

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Cryptocurrency exchange FTX Australia loses financial services licence
ASIC 2023-07-19 3:58 pm By Sam Matthews

The corporate watchdog has cancelled the AFS licence of FTX Australia, the Australian subsidiary of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

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Colonial First State settles super class action for $100M
Alexandra Folie 2023-07-14 1:21 pm By Christine Caulfield

Wealth manager Colonial First State Investments has agreed to pay $100 million to resolve a consumer class action alleging it charged excessive fees on superannuation accounts, in one of the biggest class action settlements of the year so far.

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NAB denies claims in union test case, says any extra work hours not unreasonable
Allen & Overy 2023-07-13 3:05 pm By Gareth Baker

National Australia Bank says employees suing the company for years of alleged unpaid overtime have failed to prove the work asked of them was unreasonable, in response to a test case that could affect up to 10,000 staff. 

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CBA loses second bid to throw out cuckoo-smurfing case
AUSTRAC 2023-07-13 2:23 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Commonwealth Bank has failed again to dismiss a case brought by customers who claim they were the victims of a money laundering scam known as cuckoo smurfing and had funds seized as proceeds of crime.

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Third class action law firm circling IG Markets over risky CFDs
Banton Group 2023-07-12 11:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

Online trading platform IG Markets is facing more scrutiny over its marketing of risky financial products, with a third law firm investigating a class action for everyday investors who have lost money.

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ASIC wins hard-fought case against payday lenders after High Court challenge
Adam Pomerenke 2023-07-12 9:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

ASIC has won orders declaring that Gold Coast-based BHF Solutions and Cigno needed a credit licence to issue loans to hundreds of thousands of customers, after the High Court tossed a challenge by the payday lenders.            

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CBA faces action over work from office mandate
Employment 2023-07-12 4:55 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Finance Sector Union has brought action in the Fair Work Commission over the Commonwealth Bank’s decision to force employees to return to the office.

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Broker Openmarkets pays $4.5M penalty over ‘wash’ trades
ASIC 2023-07-06 2:18 pm By Sam Matthews

Retail broker Openmarkets has paid the largest ever penalty handed down by ASIC’s markets disciplinary panel, with the regulator also banning its former trading head for three years.

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AMP financial advisers win class action over BOLR policy changes
Class Actions 2023-07-05 11:08 am By Cindy Cameronne

The lead applicant in a class action against AMP Financial Planning on behalf of 542 advisers has won $813,000 in damages after a judge found it could not retreat from a promise to buy back adviser businesses at four times their revenue. 

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