BFCSA Blog

David Collyer was right. Denise's evidence and assertions are based in many years' research. There is no room for speculation in the black and white of her evidence. It's FRAUD. What is more it is intentional, premeditated and well organised systemic fraud. How can the regulators and the politicians deny the facts and keep their credibility? They can't. Further evidence has been revealed since the initial hearing at the Senate Inquiry. It underlines the even greater need for a Royal Commission. The Australian public want the truth. Investors want the truth. Borrowers want the truth. Our international reputation is also under scrutiny. Surely it is part of the job description of any chief regulator or parliamentary representative to supply informed, well-researched answers not off the cuff comments based on assumptions and their own opinion in order to protect their jobs! They are paid handsomely to supervise and ensure the stability our...

  by: Andrew Burrell From: The Australian August 18, 2012 12:00AM   A GROUP of 20 banks, including Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank and Westpac, has been ordered to pay up to $3 billion after failing to overturn a landmark court ruling that they seized assets from Alan Bond's collapsing Bell Group in 1990. The West Australian Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a 2008 ruling that the banking syndicate must repay Bell Group creditors, in the latest chapter of Australia's most expensive and longest-running litigation. The appeal backfired on the financiers when two of the three Court of Appeal judges found the trial judge, Neville Owen, had under-calculated the amount the banks should hand over, finding he had used a "deflated multiplier" in assessing compound interest. Acting judges Malcolm Lee, Christopher Carr and Douglas Drummond, who all came out of retirement to hear the appeal, handed down their ruling after a...