The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is seeking to restrain payday lenders Cigno and BSF Solutions from enforcing loan fees against 10,000 customers.
Two former Dick Smith executives have settled with the receivers of the defunct electronics retailer, dropping a High Court appeal over an $11.8 million ruling.
NAB unit NULIS Nominees was not only allowed to charge superannuation fund members fees for adviser commissions, it was “obliged” to do so, a court has heard during a class action trial over alleged conflicted remuneration.
Investment fund Benjamin Hornigold has sued two former directors and its investment manager John Bridgeman Limited over a decision to enter into $4 million in loans.
A class action against a director of defunct financial services firm Hodgson Faraday is headed to the High Court after seven years of litigation, with the director appealing findings that he was involved in misleading South Korean investors.
The former CEO of collapsed Sydney stockbroking firm BBY Limited has been charged with two counts of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring fraud.
NAB unit NULIS Nominees was “hopelessly conflicted” in continuing to charge allegedly unlawful adviser commissions to superannuation fund members, a court has heard on the first day of a class action trial.
Westpac has been hit with a class action for allegedly overcharging superannuation customers for insurance coverage, months after paying $30 million to settle a separate superannuation class action.
Maurice Blackburn will seek $26 million in costs from a $110 million settlement in a long-running class action against AMP over its fees-for-no-service conduct, leaving more than three-quarters of the settlement to be distributed to group members.
The judge overseeing a slow moving class action against four AMP subsidiaries and two trustees over alleged excessive superannuation fees has expressed his frustration with delays in the case, fixing the case for trial over the wealth manager’s protest.