Banking giant Westpac has admitted to allegations in six new cases by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleging widespread compliance failures across multiple businesses, and will agree to pay a combined $100 million penalty.
The former director of investment management fund Courtenay House is facing a slew of criminal charges after an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission allegedly revealed he duped 590 investors in a $196 million Ponzi scheme.
La Trobe Financial Asset Management will pay just $750,000 for misleading investors in its 48 hour and 90 day notice accounts over a period of more than three years, with a judge saying the company would have faced a penalty “well in excess” of this amount if not for reassuring correspondence from ASIC during its investigation.
Money transfer business Vina Money Transfer and two of five individuals accused of fixing foreign exchange rates on millions of dollars transferred between Australia and Vietnam will plead guilty to criminal cartel charges, a court has heard.
The judge who made findings against the son of the mastermind behind the Banksia class action scam may have formed strong views about the 27-year-old’s role before he testified and used the flawed suggestion that he was his father’s right-hand man as an “evidential gap filler”, an appeals court has been told.
Financial services company AMP has lost its bid to de-class representative proceedings brought on behalf of 1.5 million insurance customers.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched court proceedings against ANZ alleging the banking giant’s home loan ‘introducer’ referral program breached credit laws.
The battle to lead a shareholder class action against Nuix over its $1.8 billion initial public offering is on, with a second class action lobbed that accuses the embattled technology company and underwriter Macquarie of failing to alert shareholders to a slew of “red flags” in the business.
Superannuation fund QSuper has been hit with a class action for allegedly overcharging up to 140,000 life insurance customers.
The parents of accused Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick may need to bring court proceedings to retain their $2.6 million Edgecliff home and recoup $1.2 million they gave to their daughter for the mortgage.