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Casting a wide net: ending modern slavery in fisheries

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
Seafood is one of the most traded food commodities in the world, and with an annual revenue of US$611.80 billon in 2023 the market is expected to grow by 6.23% annually to 2027. However, many consumers and investors are unaware of the risk of modern ...

Australian companies under "extreme pressure" over ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... practices, and the relationship with public bodies and government contracts. Australian companies are also more exposed to fraud risks, with 44% saying they were reactive in this area, compared to 38% of G20 business leaders. Meanwhile, Diligent, a software ...

Financial institutions at risk from bot attacks: Imperva

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... service provider. Bots scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it, and in the case of web crime and fraud, can be used to discover account login information. Protecting account and client information is a governance matter and has ...

AustralianSuper names Tom Garcia head of financial crime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Garcia is responsible for complying with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing responsibilities, preventing fraud and other financial crime, as well as business continuity, privacy, data governance and fund resilience. He compares his ...

Directors urged to exercise legal duties over climate risk as context evolves

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... of climate risk governance at Minter Ellison Lawyers On Tuesday, a state supreme court judge in New York cleared Exxon on fraud charges. The state attorney general had charged Exxon with misleading investors over tis accounting for future potential costs ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... the evidentiary threshold required to discharge a misleading disclosure claim is lower in Australia. In the US, securities fraud actions brought under the securities act require proof of dishonesty or intent. Finally, the lack of judicial precedent with ...

ACSI finalist for 2018 Human Rights Business Award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... introduction of the Modern Slavery Act, supply chain sourcing, gender discrimination, whistleblower protections and wage fraud. "By increasing awareness of human rights risks, advocating for improved protections and providing strategies on how companies ...

ACSI report finds gaps in ASX200 codes of conduct, whistleblowing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... ACSI defined 13 risks covered in ASX50 codes of conduct as EEO/non-discrimination, safety, gifts, environment, bribery, fraud/corruption, conflict of interest, bulling, human rights, anti-competition/anti-trust, AML/CTF, data protection/cybercrime, and ...

Vigeo Eiris assesses "ongoing, serious" misconduct cases in global banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... contractors are required to undertake mandatory training to ensure awareness and understanding of their obligations relating to fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering and sanctions, in order to prevent breaches." "By now we would be hoping to ...

APRA hires lead for new team that will consider cyber-security risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has recently created a combined team that will take the lead in governance, operational and insurance and will issues "such as IT and cyber security." Karin Halliday, AMP Capital corporate governance ...