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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman, Wayne Byers, has signalled a stronger approach on the Bank Executive Accountability Regime, including post-vestin...

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The Federal Government has moved to amend the regulatory settings to ensure the banks and other major financial institutions pay appropriately for close and continuous mo...

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Just a few days after the Government chose to maintain the existing rules around Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangements, the Fedeal Opposition has flagged it will ban th...

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An outright ban on limited recourse borrowing arrangements could be avoided by just addressing risk factors, according to the SMSF Association....

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The Federal Government has budgeted to break new ground by shifting financial services criminal prosecutions away from the states and into the jurisdiction of the Federal...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have already been identified as major funding winners from next mo...

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The Government has accepted a report from the Council of Financial Regulators and the Australian Taxation Office declaring that limited recourse borrowing arrangements ar...

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Linchpin and Endeavour have been placed into liquidation following action by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground cancelling the licenses of two accounting firms for failing to obtain membership of the Austral...

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The Financial Services Council has received a clear message from the Government that it needs to make its Life Insurance Code of Conduct enforceable....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been granted an extension of its interim orders to restrain the company from removing their assets from Australia...

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The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has established a Consumer Advisory Consumer panel led by a former board member of the Consumer Action Law Centre....

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