Mastercard has lost a bid to patent a data processing system used to prevent fraud on payment card networks, with an IP delegate Australia ruling the invention “does not rise above an idea.”
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has brought proceedings against insurance company OnePath Life, marking the first time the corporate regulator is seeking financial penalties for an alleged failure to act with utmost good faith during claims handling.
AUSTRAC has launched court proceedings against SkyCity Adelaide for allegedly allowing more than $4 billion in suspicious customer transactions at its casino, including with cash that “appeared to have been buried”.
A judge has imposed a $21 million penalty on Uber for misleading customers through platform-wide cancellation messages and estimated fares on its Uber Taxi option, $5 million short of the “very substantial” sum jointly agreed by the parties.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has brought proceedings against Telstra alleging it misled almost 9,000 customers about the upload speed of its budget internet provider Belong.
ASIC has taken American Express Australia to court over two credit cards co-branded with department store David Jones which the regulator alleges customers mistakenly believed were loyalty cards.
A judge has set aside a tribunal’s decision not to disqualify a SMSF auditor for breaching independence rules, finding the tribunal had failed to consider general deterrence.
The Albanese government has succeeded in advancing labor reforms that it says will strengthen access to wage bargaining, encourage job security and gender equity, and bolster the role of the Fair Work Commission.
Vanguard Investments has coughed up almost $40,000 for allegedly misleading investors about funds that purportedly did not invest in companies that sell or manufacture tobacco.
The competition regulator has detailed “significant” concerns with Cochlear’s proposed acquisition of Oticon Medical, saying Thursday a tie-up would cut to three the number of cochlear implant suppliers in Australia.