An Australian marketing company that allows clients to schedule socal media posts has won a temporary court injunction against Facebook and Instagram in a lawsuit alleging a decision to block the startup from their platforms is a misuse of market power.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have signed an agreement under which the agencies will work more closely to target cartels and other anti-competitive behaviour.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has filed Federal Court proceedings against comparison website iSelect for allegedly favouring energy plans offered by preferred retail partners over other, cheaper alternatives.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has brought criminal cartel charges against a money transfer business and five individuals for allegedly fixing the foreign exchange rate on millions of dollars transferred between Australia and Vietnam between 2011 and 2016.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has offered $9.3 million since 2014 to customers that suffered loss when advisers in two of its financial planning units put their money into high-risk investments without their permission.
Charges in the criminal cartel case against ANZ, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank over a $2.5 billion ANZ institutional share placement have yet to be finalised, almost a year after the proceeding was filed.
ANZ Bank executives briefly considered relaunching and repricing a botched $2.5 billion equity capital raising at the heart of two groundbreaking enforcement actions, and the decision by the share placement’s underwriters to instead pick up a $790 million shortfall deprived investors of lower priced shares, a court has been told.
An argument over the admissibility of an expert report produced by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in its insurance churn case against AMP was sidestepped Monday, with a judge proposing experts from both sides instead file a joint report in the case.
A settlement has been reached in a class action against KPMG alleging it providing a misleading expert report to copper miner Discovery Metals that was used to reject a $830 million hostile takeover bid.
Container stevedore companies DP World Australia, Hutchison Ports Australia and Victoria International Container Terminal have agreed to change their standard form contracts with land transporters after the ACCC raised concerns that some terms of the agreements may violate the Australian Consumer Law.