Eleven already jailed over CBA money laundering syndicates. Two men recently jailed over a $2 million money laundering plot using a "cuckoo smurfing" scam are among 11 people already jailed as part of criminal syndicates caught exploiting Commonwealth Bank accounts to wash money.

Several days after shares of Canada's TD Bank tumbled following reports that its employees were engaging in practices similar to those which led to a major scandal at Wells Fargo, which cost CEO John Stumpf his job and led to bonus clawbacks and numerous terminations over the practice of "cross-selling", employees from all five of Canada's big banks have flooded CBC's "Go Public" whistleblower hotline with stories of how they too feel pressured to upsell, trick and even lie to customers to meet unrealistic sales targets and keep their jobs.

ALMOST a decade after the collapse of Townsville-based wealth adviser Storm Financial thousands of investors who lost their life savings in the sharemarket meltdown are getting on with life as best they can.

Storm Financial's former directors' attempt to claw back more than $17 million from the Commonwealth Bank has been thrown out by the Brisbane Supreme Court.