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Authorised advisers need to make sure they’re on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register by the end of the year, before new professional standards take effect, or risk being t...

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The frequent contact between ASIC commissioners and the chief executives and boards of the institutions they regulate is purely professional, ASIC’s chair has told the Ro...

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The chair of the Commonwealth Bank, Catherine Livingstone, has asserted that the inability of senior management to meet her challenge over their conduct had convinced her...

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UBS Securities has been slapped with a $120,000 penalty by the regulator’s Markets Disciplinary Panel after it had reasonable grounds to believe that UBS contravened mark...

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Commonwealth Bank chief executive, Matt Comyn has questioned the quality of some of the bank’s previous senior executives, suggesting some had not represented appropriate...

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The securities regulator has banned Yossef Ashkenazi of Victoria from providing financial services for a period of eight years....

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The Royal Commission will today begin its final round of hearings looking at what caused the misconduct and what can be done to fix those causes....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has pointed to the recent adverse publicity around the financial services industry having driven up the level of whis...

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A former Perth financial services representative has been banned from providing financial services following a Court conviction for four counts of stealing....

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The Labor Party’s proposed reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax could split the property market in two, despite promises from Canberra that the changes would...

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The Federal Government is proposing to increase the value limit of products in employee share schemes that can be offered in a 12-month period from $5,000 to $10,000 per ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has declared that just because behaviour is lawful does not make it an excuse where consumer detriment is concerned....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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