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• 调查 — Westpac

  an external review has been set up to investigate what went wrong

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• 13:12 PM, 2 Jul 2021

• Westpac has announced that it has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Forum Finance Pty Ltd following the discovery of a significant potential fraud.

• The big four bank has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Forum Finance Pty Ltd for an alleged $200-million fraud relating to equipment leases.

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• Westpac has been fined just $10.5 million for failing to act in customers’ best interests when it instigated a campaign to get savers to hand over their superannuation, which inflated the company’s funds under management by $650 million.

• the company’s subsidiaries Westpac Securities and BT Funds Management will pay $7.5 million and $3 million, respectively, for the breaches.

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• Both subsidiaries breached their "best interests duty" when they conducted a sales campaign that was aimed at rolling customers from their existing superannuation accounts into Westpac superannuation products.

• Two Westpac Bank subsidiaries have been ordered to pay a $10.5 million fine by the Federal Court after they were found to have given customers financial advice when they were not licensed to do so.

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• Westpac said in a statement that AUSTRAC was further looking into matters including suspicious transactions for 272 customers that it had previously self-reported and may include allegations arising from these investigations.

• Australia's Westpac Banking Corp said today it was notified by the financial crime watchdog that it may include additional allegations of wrongdoing in its case against the lender for breaching anti-money laundering laws.

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• Westpac's current and former senior leaders are under investigation by the corporate regulator for approving a $2.5 billion sale of the bank's shares to investors just two weeks before the anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regulator officially launched a lawsuit against the bank.

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• Justice Wigney ruled Westpac was responsible because it failed to make sure Mr Sinha acted efficiently, honestly and fairly.

• The Federal Court found Mr Sinha contravened the Corporations Act 22 times.

• Westpac has been fined $9.15 million by the Federal Court after one of its financial advisers gave inappropriate advice to clients.

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• 人事处理 — Westpac

  we are recruiting an additional 200 people in compliance and financial crime areas

• 整改 — Westpac

  On immediate fixes, he said the bank had closed products and reported outstanding historical files that were related to AUSTRAC IFTI claims.

• 整改 — Westpac

  We have also implemented additional transaction monitoring.

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• To lift our standards… we are recruiting an additional 200 people in compliance and financial crime areas, adding to the 750 experts already working in this area,” he said.

• King said the bank had established a Board Financial Crime Committee and sought to step up industry data sharing which he said was critical to fighting financial crime.

• We have also implemented additional transaction monitoring.

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• 人事处理 — Westpac

  promising to either cut or cancel short-term bonuses for executives and close the system through which many of the payments were made.

• 整改 — Westpac

  Westpac said it will tackle the problem by improving its data sharing across the industry and adding 200 people to the 750 who currently work internally on financial crime.

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• In a statement today (Nov. 24), Westpac’s chairman Lindsay Maxted said the bank (pdf) felt “deep sorrow,” promising to either cut or cancel short-term bonuses for executives and close the system through which many of the payments were made.

• Westpac said it will tackle the problem by improving its data sharing across the industry and adding 200 people to the 750 who currently work internally on financial crime.

• Australia’s second biggest bank is reeling after a lawsuit by the country’s financial intelligence unit accused it of 23 million breaches of an anti-money-laundering and terrorist-financing law and “indifference” toward pedophiles using its services.

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• 调查 — Westpac

  ordering an independent review of the bank's money-laundering breaches

• 道歉 — Westpac

  Westpac board "unreservedly apologises" for the horrifying material identified by the regulator on Wednesday.

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• Mr Maxsted spent most of Friday locked in an emergency meeting and emerged to declare the Westpac board "unreservedly apologises" for the horrifying material identified by the regulator on Wednesday.

• Westpac chairman Lindsay Maxsted has stood by chief executive Brian Hartzer, ordering an independent review of the bank's money-laundering breaches, and pledging to work with community groups to fight child exploitation.

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• 金融犯罪监管机构AUSTRAC在一份法庭文件中称，对西太平洋银行的监管失察导致“严重的系统性违反”反洗钱法。

• AUSTRAC拟对该行每笔未能充分监控或及时申报的交易开出金额最多2，100万澳元（1，400万美元）的罚单。