In the wake of its money-laundering scandal, most funds that had a high allocation towards the bank managed to recover losses indicating the resilience of big banks....

Westpac has announced the appointment of a board financial crime committee and Promontory Financial Group to undertake financial crime program review and external account...

Westpac has announced it will provide a share purchase plan withdrawal option for SPP applicants who applied for the plan prior to the AUSTRAC announcement made earlier t...

Peter Jianchao Xu has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for failing to comply with best interests duty....

Both the chairman and chief executive of Westpac are exiting in the wake of the AUSTRAC fiasco....

Westpac has withheld the bonuses of its most senior executives and some of its general management until it determines who should be held accountable for its alleged AUSTR...

Fitch Ratings has said that the AUSTRAC proceedings brought against Westpac were credit negative, but will not have an immediate impact on its ratings....

Westpac chief executive, Brian Hartzer has acknowledged that it was the bank’s systems rather than advisers which represented the major cause for fee for no service....

Former bank-owned investment managers are feeling the fallout from financial adviser dislocation in the form of significantly reduced fund inflows....

The Westpac full-year result has starkly revealed the multi-million dollar reasons the big banking group chose to substantially exit wealth management, with BT Panorama a...

Funds with large Westpac exposures managed to avoid taking a hit to their performance despite a hard year for the bank and a low-growth environment over the past year....

Westpac’s net profit dropped 16% during FY16 thanks to customer remediation and a reduction in wealth and insurance income....

The exit of the major banks means the original funding source for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will mostly dry up in May next year with advisers t...

ASIC has won an appeal against two Westpac subsidiaries that provided personal advice to customers that breached best interests duty....