Big banks paid $3.6bn in compensation for financial advice-related misconduct

The compensation is related to fees-for-no-service misconduct or non-compliant advice

Big banks paid $3.6bn in compensation for financial advice-related misconduct

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By Mina Martin

Billions in compensation have been paid or offered to customers who suffered loss or detriment due to financial advice-related misconduct, corporate watchdog ASIC has revealed. 

AMP, ANZ, CBA, Macquarie, NAB, and Westpac had paid or offered a total of $3.6 billion in compensation as of June 30 to victims of fees-for-no-service misconduct or non-compliant advice after the institutions undertook review and remediation programs as a result of two major ASIC reviews.

ASIC commenced the reviews to determine the extent of failure by the institutions to deliver ongoing advice services to financial advice customers as well as how effectively the institutions supervised their financial advisers to identify and deal with “non-compliant advice.”

Below is the breakdown of the compensation payments made or offered by the institutions as of June 30:

 

Fees-for-no-service misconduct

Non-compliant advice

Institution

Compensation paid or offered

No. of customers paid or offered compensation

Compensation paid or offered

No. of customers paid or offered compensation

AMP

$626,869,836

331,994

$42,499,477

2,842

ANZ

$217,301,375

65,489

$44,700,475

2,123

CBA

$290,579,310

144,659

$9,354,027

626

Macquarie

$4,628,000

1,105

-

-

NAB

$1,247,058,303

772,235

$104,774,706

2,727

Westpac

$942,173,093

117,018

$58,785,777

3,341

Total

$3,328,609,917

1,432,500

$260,114,462

11,659

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