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ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft confirms fintech companies who used the regulator’s Innovation Hub were already in the licensing fast-lane....

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ASIC has released licensing exemption for fintech businesses which would allow the firms to test certain services without holding an Australian financial service or credi...

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The Government has laid out the initial ground rules for its proposed ASIC product intervention regime but has invited discussion about whether super products should be i...

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The Association of Financial Advisers has argued group life should be underwritten at time of applications rather than time of claim....

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Spread betting may have the characteristics of a derivative, but the Australian Securities and Investment Commission has taken a punt on spread bets not being financial p...

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The Financial Ombudsman Service has urged the extension of the national unfair contract terms to the life insurance industry....

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ASIC has called on companies who prepare financial reports to present information in a useful and meaningful way for their users....

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The Federal Government is portraying the creation of a mega-ombudsman for the financial services industry as preferable to the lawyer’s picnic which would accompany a Roy...

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While the Government and FOS have supported the single ombudsman scheme, the CIO has rejected the recommendation by calling it ‘vexing’....

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ASIC has recommended that certain types of advisers should be covered by whistle-blower protections. ...

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ClearView Wealth claims the FSC cannot be trusted to deliver on open insurance APLs because it is dominated by large vertically-integrated institutions....

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The Government has introduced legislation which will restrict the use of client monies by licensees....

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