AMP’s chief executive Craig Meller has resigned after this week’s shocking revelations that the company misled ASIC over fees charged to customers and may have influenced a Clayton Utz report to the securities regulator.
Iconic fashion labels Gucci and Guess have agreed to a global settlement in their nine-year long courtroom battle over the famed “G” design trademark.
The ACCC has delayed it decision on MYOB’s proposed bid for Reckon’s accounting unit while it waits for information, after the regulator raised concerns about how the merger would affect competition in the accounting software market.
The Australian Patent Office has shot down a challenge by SNF to a BASF application for a mining patent.
A judge has signed off on a $19.25 million settlement in a shareholder class action brought against directors of defunct laser technology company Arasor International Ltd and partners in auditing firm Grant Thornton South Australia, but cut the legal fees of Squire Patton Boggs and Piper Alderman by $250,000.
A judge has signed off on a multi-million dollar settlement in a class action by retirees who claim they lost $27 million with the collapse of property lender Wickham Securities
A former NAB financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing financial services after an ASIC investigation found he fleeced clients out of at least $2 million.
A former RMIT worker suing the university for allegedly firing him after he blew the whistle on a colleague for selling exam answers to students has won a bid to subpoena documents from the Victorian Ombudsman.
A judge has rejected a bid by information services company SAI Global Property to temporarily ban a former sales manager from working for a direct competitor, saying the executive could not have realistically remembered SAI’s list of thousands of clients.
Two Commonwealth Bank subsidiaries have entered an agreement with ASIC to pay $3 million for failing to provide annual reviews to customers that paid for the service, adding to the $88 million they have already paid out to 31,500 affected customers.