The major banks have formed a united front to call for a Government-backed inquiry into banking and financial services to remove all uncertainty....
The Finance Sector Union has backed measures like the Sedgewick Inquiry and the Bank Executive Accountability Regime but argues that only a Royal Commission will really w...
The Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison has made what amounts to an election speech to a Canberra business dinner....
The Australian Taxation Office has foreshadowed a crack-down on people with wealth and lifestyles that seem unexplained....
Draft legislation released last week by the Federal Government has addressed hybrid mismatch arrangements within the tax system....
The Financial Services Council has argued the life insurance industry does not deserve to be subject to an extension of the Unfair Contracts legislation....
The Federal Government has been warned against rushing the implementation of its new financial services external dispute resolution regime amid claims of shortened consul...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants to see the Bank Executive Accountability Regime extended to insurance companies and then an extension of its co...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority says some of the recent banking scandals would have been captured by the BEAR, but not all....
ASIC has revealed how the planners sitting on it’s the Financial Services and Credit Panel will sit in judgement on their peers and help determine banning orders....
A Parliamentary Committee has been warned that the nature of the Bank Executive Accountability Regime means it may actually have failed to capture the executive culprits ...
Plaintiff law firm Maurice Blackburn has warned that there can be watering down of the code of conduct applying to insurance inside super and that it must be binding and...
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?...