The sooner you can establish a habit of saving, the better off you will be. When you are in your twenties, you often have more disposable income because you have not yet purchased a home or started a family. You may have a great deal of student loan debt you need to pay off and...
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SEOUL (KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A total of 1.4 billion won (S$1.74 million) of cash was lost on the subway in Seoul over the past three years, Seoul Metro said Sunday (Dec 3). Fortunately about 85 per cent of the money has been returned to their owners. Items found in subway stations and trains...
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ANZ Bank says a lack of political will has seen successive Australian governments fail to extend money laundering laws to cover lawyers, real estate agents and accountants. Australia’s hot property market is an attractive haven for criminals, with estimates that billions of dollars of dirty money is being laundered through residential property. Australia’s anti-money laundering...
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SYDNEY — The Australian government on Thursday accused the country’s biggest mortgage lender, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, of widespread breaches of money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing rules. Financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC said it had initiated civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against CommBank for “serious and systemic non-compliance,” in the biggest case of its kind...
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Australia is moving to introduce a new bill that would extend the country’s anti-money laundering (AML) rules to cover domestic cryptocurrency exchanges. In a statement this morning, the Ministry of Justice announced that the legislation would seek to bring exchanges within the jurisdiction of the Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), the country’s chief financial intelligence office. The effort dates back to...
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What would you do if you came across a fat stack of cash while doing urban exploration photography? That’s what happened to Dave of Freaktography last year. On one afternoon in January 2014, Dave got off work early and decided to pay a visit to a badly decaying abandoned house that he had heard about from a...
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DREAMING of a lotto win worth up to $200,000? It might be easier to check if you’ve got money sitting in the State Revenue Office. An incredible 800,000 Victorians have cash windfalls waiting to be collected, including a Mont Albert woman who has almost $200,000 unclaimed. In total, more than $100 million in unclaimed cash...
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