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ASIC has successfully defended a $10 million defamation case brought by a Canadian trader, with a judge finding any loss experienced was due to his firm's traders manipulating the market.
Two Westpac units have defended their choice to charge higher superannuation fees, saying in their responses to a Slater and Gordon class action that customers received numerous positive benefits in exchange for the charges.
Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer has stepped down after admitting he was "ultimately accountable" for failures detailed in an AUSTRAC lawsuit alleging over 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
Buy now, pay later giant Afterpay got bad legal advice from "top tier Australian law firms" on its anti-money laundering compliance, an auditor's report has found.
Maurice Blackburn disregarded emails by the artist behind the iconic Fearless Girl statue questioning whether she would be breaching her contract with US asset management firm State Street in selling the law firm a replica, a court has heard.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has won its case against defunct financial advisor Dover Financial and its former director, who famously collapsed during the banking royal commission, with a judge saying the company engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct through its inaptly titled ‘client protection policy’.
Slater and Gordon is planning class actions against ANZ and Westpac over allegedly worthless insurance, fresh off of winning a $49.5 million settlement in a junk insurance class action against the National Australia Bank.
Shareholders have appealed a ruling that found a "serious problem" with market-based causation and dismissed three cases against the liquidator of failed global financial services firm Babcock & Brown.
The National Australia Bank and insurer MLC have agreed to pay $49.5 million to settle a class action over allegedly worthless credit card insurance.
Westpac has been hit with a lawsuit by AUSTRAC for its alleged "systemic" failure to comply with anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance laws.