The Commonwealth Bank has used its second FSI submission to back a US-style approach to the implementation of a natioanl register of financial planners....
FinTech startups could disrupt the regulatory order, a lawyer warns, with systemic tweaks needed to align regulation with the new, virtual environment. ...
AREITs have performed well for the past 12 months but still hold concentration risk across a range of funds according to research house Lonsec....
Westpac has recruited internally to promote a 15-year veteran to the GM Global Transaction Service role....
Challenger launches notes issue aimed at raising $250 million to expand annuities business....
AIA extends the number of platforms on which its insurance offerings are available....
EQT and Dundas have added their EQT Dundas Global Equity Fund to the ASX-backed mFund settlement service....
NAB launches super clearing house product amid SuperStream implementation....
A senior and experienced cohort of financial planners are choosing to move away from expensive platforms. ...
Australian Unity says its financial services expansion plan hinges on the changing regulatory landscape, with the group hoping to pick up smaller advisory firms strugglin...
Westpac has rejected separately labelling institutionally-aligned financial planners, stating FOFA is an appropriate standard for all advisers....
Platforms should report adviser fraud to licensees despite not being required under law to do so....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...