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Government commits $5m to tackle environmental crimes

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026  |  NEWS
... waste, wildlife trafficking and illegal logging and timber trade. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) chief executive Brendan Thomas said the funding will help the organisations identify drug trafficking, child sexual exploitation ...

Super moves: Future Fund, Bupa, QIC, HESTA, Prime Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2025  |  NEWS
... Promontory, where he covered regulatory remediation, data-led strategy, and AI-driven innovation for APRA-, ASIC-, and AUSTRAC-regulated clients. Shinkarsky's previous experience includes Oliver Wyman, where he ran Basel II AIRB and mortgage book ...

Binance names head of APAC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025  |  NEWS
... Vishal Sacheendran who left the business in July to join BitPanda. Industry watchdogs are never far behind. Last month, AUSTRAC raised serious concerns about the company's anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing (AML/CTF) controls ...

Westpac looks for next CSO

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2024  |  NEWS
... led, and increasingly the many sustainability and ESG professionals across the Westpac Group." In 2019 she led Westpac's AUSTRAC response to establish the Safer Children Safer Communities program, and supported organisations in the Philippines to tackle ...

AUSTRAC, Crown propose $450m penalty for ALM violations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
AUSTRAC and Crown have agreed to a proposed $450 million penalty over Crown's breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act. AUSTRAC and Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth (Crown) have agreed to the penalty, which will go to ...

U Ethical on resilience, engagement during COVID-19

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... banks here, whether it's on credits cards and their use in gambling, the response to the Royal Commission, issues with AUSTRAC, and we're active in terms of our engagement with the financial services companies, the underweight was more driven by our ...

Creating a values-based financial advisory firm: FPA Congress

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Hayne Royal Commission as well as the newly introduce FASEA Code of Ethics, but in the immediate aftermath of claims by AUSTRAC that Westpac committed 23 million breaches of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing act, a talk on the ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... that AA rating since 2015. But how to reconcile those ratings in light of a week of revelations that an investigation by AUSTRAC that alleges Westpac committed over 23 million breaches of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing act ...

Investors considering their options in voting at Westpac AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... the right solution to governance failing. Vas Kolesnikoff, head of Australia and New Zealand research, ISS Last week, AUSTRAC revealed an investigation alleging that Westpac committed over 23 million breaches of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism ...
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