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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Direct FX Trading Pty Ltd. ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signalled that financial institutions with a poor breach reporting record are likely to find themselves dealing w...

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The new ombudsman vows to “proactively work with consumers, small business and the financial services sector to resolve and reduce financial disputes”....

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has told a key parliamentary committee it is funded and empowered to be the financial services “competition champion”....

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The global corporate lending platform has warned the Federal Government of substantial weaknesses in its proposed Open Banking implementation plan....

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A major industry superannuation fund has called for defined benefit funds to be excluded from the Government’s proposed new product intervention powers for the Australian...

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The Federal Government has been warned of unintended consequences flowing from its plans to impose a 30 per cent withholding tax on international capital in the property ...

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The Federal Government will introduce legislation during the next session of Parliament that will fast-track its business tax relief for more than three million small to ...

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The Commonwealth Bank has passed some early milestones in addressing issues raised in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s critical prudential report but stil...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued a legislative instrument aimed at removing unintended consequences flowing from the legislation underpinni...

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The regulator has banned Spectrum Wealth Advisers’ Gurumukh Singh Mehra from providing financial services for three years after surveillance showed he failed to act in hi...

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Industry superannuation funds are urging the imposition of greater comparability around fees, costs and performance to give transparency around advisers switching members...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

8 months 1 week ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 4 days ago

Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...

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