by Michael West | Aug 11, 2017 | Despatch, Finance & Tax
A Commonwealth Bank insider has rejected the bank’s claims that a “software error” caused its systematic money-laundering. Rather, it was due to management incompetence and a culture in which compliance ran a poor second to profit. The person, who...
by Bernard Keane | Aug 8, 2017 | Business, Finance & Tax
The Commonwealth Bank is chalking up ignoring a massive amount of money laundering to “lessons learnt”. That is not even close to good enough, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane. WERE YOU thinking that given the bad odour that surrounds Australian banks,...
by Michael West | May 10, 2017 | Comment & Analysis, Finance & Tax, Government
The biggest insider trade of the year has just been executed before our very eyes thanks to a monumental government leak. Word of the Budget measure to hit the banks with a $6 billion tax hike spread through the market late yesterday, wiping $14 billion off the value...
by Michael West | Mar 3, 2017 | Despatch, Finance & Tax, Government
The inquiry into the banks, the Clayton’s Royal Commission if you like, kicked off today with NAB boss Andrew Thorburn giving evidence. The committee would do well to ask Thorburn about the bank scam of “upstreaming” cash from superannuation...
by Michael West | Sep 5, 2016 | Finance & Tax
The Commonwealth Bank secretly struck a deal with class action lawyers for Storm Financial Group which left victims in a $1 billion claim against the bank with a return of just $34 million. Of that $34 million in compensation for Australia’s most devastating...