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$27M penalty for ‘extensive and systematic’ failures by CBA units
Financial Services 2022-10-25 11:03 pm By Sam Matthews

Commonwealth Bank units CommSec and Australian Investments Exchange have been ordered to pay more than $27 million for ā€œserious and unacceptableā€ system failures that led to excessive fee charges for customers.

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AMP grilled over possible breach of court orders in insurance churn case
Financial Services 2022-10-19 11:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has questioned AMP Financial Planning over whether it breached court orders to compensate customers after finding the firm failed to prevent a now banned adviser from churning life insurance for higher commissions.

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ā€˜Concernedā€™ judge wants answers from AMP on remediation program
Financial Services 2022-08-19 11:05 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has raised concerns that AMP Financial Planning has not compensated customers for allegedly failing to prevent life insurance churning, directing the firm to explain the ā€œvanishingly smallā€ number of people who have been remediated.

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CommSec agrees to $20M penalty for ‘serious and unacceptable’ system failures
Financial Services 2022-03-03 9:02 pm By Bianca Hrovat

Commonwealth Bank unit CommSec has agreed to pay a $20 million penalty for a series of ā€œserious and unacceptableā€ failures that lead to excessive fee charges, a court has heard.

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Judge hits AMP with $5.2M penalty, says greedy financial adviser was ‘in the right place’
Financial Services 2020-02-05 11:05 am By Miklos Bolza

The Federal Court has imposed a penalty of almost $5.2 million on AMP Financial Planning after finding it was “reckless” in its ā€œlamentable failureā€ to properly respond to a now banned adviser who was churning life insurance for higher commissions.

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Court signs off on AMP’s new remediation program in ASIC insurance churn case
Financial Services 2019-10-01 8:42 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has given the thumbs up to AMP’s new program to identify and compensate victims of so-called insurance churning by its financial planning arm after inadequacies were revealed in the original scheme.

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Moreton wins appeal over R&D tax credits for failed coal gasification project
Article 2019-07-31 3:39 pm By Miklos Bolza

Australian coal miner Moreton Resources has won a Full Federal Court appeal over tax offsets it claims are owed over a failed pilot project testing underground coal gasification, a process which was ultimately banned in Queensland.

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AMP taken by surprise by ASIC’s claim of 120 breaches in insurance churn case
Financial Services 2019-07-26 9:45 pm By Amelia Birnie

AMP Financial Planning has attempted to qualify its admission to so-called insurance churn allegations by the corporate watchdog, suggesting it might not have admitted to ā€œall contraventionsā€ if it had known ASIC would push for up to 120 separate breaches and $36 million in penalties.

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ASIC seeks $36M penalty against AMP unit in insurance churn case
Financial Services 2019-06-19 5:13 pm By Miklos Bolza

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has asked a court to impose penalties of up to $36 million on an AMP subsidiary for failing to take reasonable steps to stop its representatives from churning life insurance policies.

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AMP admits to breaches in ASIC’s insurance churn case
Financial Services 2019-05-21 12:43 pm By Miklos Bolza

AMP’s financial planning unit has admitted it breached the Corporations Act when at least one of its representatives engaged in so-called insurance policy churning, in a case brought by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission that will now head to a hearing on penalties next month.

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