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TAL’S BRETT CLARK
This is Brett Clark. He’s the CEO of Australian insurance company TAL Holdings, the company that fleeced my late mother Una Ellis (https://ericellis.com/has-tal-insurance-ripped-you-off) of $1000s while she suffered through dementia. Brett seems pretty happy. Maybe that’s because he’s just scaled Sydney Harbour Bridge, an exhilarating experience. Or maybe because its … read more >>
TAL’S IDEA OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
DIARY OF A SCAM: DAY 3. I have obtained a recording (above) that reveals how Blissed Out Brett Clark‘s TAL Insurance deals with a policyholder after TAL discovers she suffers depression. It was recorded at TAL’s claims operation. Remember this is the insurance company that advertises that is ‘Making a … read more >>
HAS TAL INSURANCE RIPPED YOU OFF?
(let us know at talpredator@gmail.com) It did to this woman, my mother; repeatedly, professionally, ruthlessly. Her name is Una Ellis, and she passed away in Winchelsea, Australia on October 24, 2023. She was aged 82, and had suffered profound clinically-diagnosed dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease since 2020. A few weeks before … read more >>
SRI LANKAN CRISIS
SRI LANKAN CRISIS
AFGHANISTAN’S CONTROVERSIAL NEW FUND
AFGHANISTAN’S NEW FUND
INTERVIEW WITH ANWAR IBRAHIM
INTERVIEW WITH ANWAR IBRAHIM Back To The Future For Malaysia
UKRAINE WAR PACKAGE-AUGUST/SEPT 2022
We Will Work Until Ukraine Has Victory, Ukraine Fighting On All Fronts, Looking Beyond The War In Lviv, Keeping The Lights On, Theory And Practice,
Spain banking: Unicaja swims against the stream
Spain banking: Unicaja swims against the stream By Eric Ellis October 05, 2020 As Spain prepares to digest the €17 billion merger of CaixaBank and Bankia, Andalucían lender Unicaja faces a threat to its regional dominance. While its community roots are an advantage, it also needs an answer to the … read more >>
Malaysia: Zeti’s last stand
Alas poor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Malaysia’s embattled central bank governor. At 68, and after 15 years in the job, she is due to retire next April. But it is not certain whether she will make it that far. Her beloved ringgit has collapsed to its lowest level in 17 years, … read more >>
Spain: Sabadell tries out a new look
Since the financial crisis the bank has been transformed from a Catalan regional to the fifth largest bank in Spain. It now has ambitions in Europe and the Americas.
Byambasaikhan offers Mongolia a fresh exchange of ideas
In doing the rounds of Ulaanbaatar, it doesn’t take long to encounter someone who used to work at the Mongolian Stock Exchange. Former MSE staff seem to be deposited most everywhere across the narrow universe that is Corporate Mongolia; at its handful of banks, its few private equity firms, the … read more >>
Sri Lanka: Showdown at the central bank
Vendettas waged by government bureaucrats never look good but, in Sri Lanka, such higher-minded considerations seem to have evaded two powerful men who should know better. Arjuna Mahendran and Ajith Cabraal, the current and former governors of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, have been at each other’s throats over … read more >>
Bankia’s Alvarez: Saving the bank that didn’t exist
In early 2013, Jose Sevilla Alvarez, the then newly appointed chief executive of Spain’s Bankia, sat down with his chairman, the storied Spanish banker Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, to have a critical conversation about where Bankia was going. Outside, the atmosphere in Spain was as toxic as the rancid bank they … read more >>
Jho says it ain’t so: Malaysian tycoon denies role in 1MDB ‘heist of the century’
Low Taek Jho’s high-rise lair in Hong Kong is the stuff of thrillers, appropriately enough for a young Penang-born tycoon cast by his countrymen as a mysterious villain whose shadowy dealings have exposed the secrets of Malaysia Inc. The intrigues are felt the moment one steps inside the stylish foyer … read more >>
Schapelle Revisited..
The trials of Schapelle There are braying reporters, dozing judiciary members, colourful lawyers and assorted hangers-on basking in the limelight and baking in the Indonesian heat. Centre stage, an Australian woman’s life is at stake.. Judgement in Denpasar The Bali expats and intelligentsia are disgusted by Australia’s racist reaction. The … read more >>
Protected: Sandra
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What China’s Off-the-Books Figures Mean for Australia
Last September, a small news item in China’s official media, that in less skittish economic times might have sailed through unremarked, revealed a disturbing truth about this suddenly most essential of nations – that too often its official statistics are bogus. Portents and truths sprung from China in recent times … read more >>
ASIO Took It – But Was It Timor’s or Australia’s?
Apparently in international law as in life, the most important things get hidden in plain view. And so it was that on Tuesday in The Hague, an International Court of Justice judge from Somalia – a tiny impoverished land that in recent times has come to know a thing or … read more >>
Ghosts and Memory Sticks: Court Hears East Timor Case Against ASIO Swoop
PERHAPS it was a glow emanating from the Mandela bust outside the court, or from the bronzed Gandhi next to it, but an unexpectedly gentile civility pervaded The Hague’s baronial Peace Palace on Monday, as the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearing a case that outwardly seems … read more >>
Barclays
CIC, Thaksin and BlackRock: how PCP tried to pull other investors into Mansour’s part of the Barclays deal by Clive Horwood, Eric Ellis Euromoney can reveal that advisers to Sheikh Mansour were courting other strategic parties to invest in Barclays at a time when the bank was marketing the importance … read more >>
Amsterdam: I’ve Been To Bali, Too
AMSTERDAM. Been here a year. Was concerned I’d find it boring after years absorbed by manic Asia, the last years in Indonesia, which used to be Dutch. But, neo-colonially, we’re now ensconced in the Netherlands, in an agreeably restored 18th century canal-house that once traded silks, pelts and spices shipped … read more >>
Media mogul makes his mark in a troubled land
Melbourne-raised Saad Mohseni is forging an empire in his homeland of Afghanistan SAAD Mohseni is the Australian media mogul you’ve probably never heard of. His writ runs wide and influentially in a country at the crossroads. At 44, his authority is sought by some of the world’s most powerful people: … read more >>
Indonesia: New dawn slowed by speed limits
JAKARTA: In December 1967, the prominent US magazine The Atlantic made a foray into the Pacific, to look at Indonesia. Written by John Hughes, who won a Pulitzer Prize that year for his Indonesia reportage, the piece examined the aftermath of the Year of Living Dangerously, when the independence hero … read more >>
Slow road to reform
LIFE’S daily drama that is modern Indonesia can be glibly boiled down to an arm-wrestle between goodies and baddies. The reformist goodies are gathered under the moral and electoral authority of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, now a year into a second five-year term and as popular as ever. Reform is … read more >>
Nightmare over for UK banker held in Qatar
(See also, “The Banker Who Couldn’t Get Out of Qatar”) David Proctor, the prominent British banker held “hostage” for more than a year in Qatar, has finally been able to leave the gas-rich Gulf monarchy. Proctor arrived in Singapore from Qatari capital Doha on Thursday after being suddenly granted an … read more >>
Protected: Your guide to our house
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From Upper East to further East
The poached salmon we were eating in New York was perfectly edible. But, enhanced by the fiery sambal with its chili, garlic and cumin ingredients we had enjoyed on holiday in Bali, it would have been sublime. In the Manhattan drizzle, my wife yearned for that condiment while I longed … read more >>