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Articles by Sam Comber
ASIC secures multi-million dollar penalty against iSignthis for breach of market disclosure laws
The Australian Federal Court has ordered payments business iSignthis Limited (iSignthis) (now Southern Cross Payments Limited) to pay a A$10 million penalty for breaching continuous disclosure laws and misleading the market. Its former managing director and chief executive officer, Nicolas Karantzis, was also disqualified from managing corporations for six years and penalised A$1 million for breaching his director’s duties and for his role as an accessory to iSignthis’ contraventions.
Fair Trading Act Litigation Update
The New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) recently succeeded in legal proceedings against pyramid scheme promotor Shelly Cullen and global company Viagogo AG (Viagogo) for breaches of the Fair Trading Act 1986 (FTA). In this article we discuss the main findings of the two cases and why they are important reminders both to consumers to be wary when investing; and to businesses about their obligations under the FTA.
Winging it: a warning from Australian watchdog on misleading selling practices
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Qantas have recently reached an agreement over Qantas' marketing for thousands of ‘ghost tickets’ for flights it had already decided to cancel. They will now ask the Federal Court to impose a penalty of A$100 million on Qantas for breaching the Australian Consumer Law. The case is an important reminder about the possible risks associated with misleading advertising.
Fair dealing penalties: $2.1m for false /misleading claims
In the latest penalty obtained by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) - Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko, Medical Assurance Society New Zealand Limited (MAS) must pay $2.1 million for failing to correctly apply policy discounts, inflation adjustments, and benefit payments to some of its entitled customers between 2014 and 2019. Key takeaways Financial institutions should have robust systems and processes to prevent overcharging and to calculate customer entitlements.
Machine learning innovations in address matching: A practical comparison of word2vec and CRFs
Abstract Record linkage is a frequent obstacle to unlocking the benefits of integrated (spatial) data sources. In the absence of unique identifiers to directly join records, practitioners often rely on text‐based approaches for resolving candidate pairs of records to a match. In geographic information science, spatial record linkage is a form of geocoding that pertains to the resolution of text‐based linkage between pairs of addresses into matches and non‐matches.
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