ASIC report: Money for nothing - banks behaving badly

The numbers are simply staggering. Almost 200,000 customers have been systemically rorted of an estimated $178 million for financial advice services they never got.

Customers were literally paying their hard-earned money for nothing, while the big four banks and AMP raked in the fees.

This article, published last week in the Sydney Morning Herald is an indictment of the Big Bank financial services practices.

According to a landmark report by ASIC it shows that the financial advice sector still has a long way to go to clean up its act.

It appears, that the financial services practices extend to the foreign exchange services in the form of charging customers high margins and fees, some of which don't appear to come to light until after agreeing to the transaction.

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