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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is working to rectify its systems after identifying a cyber attack affecting Australian credit licence applications....

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Deloitte Access Economics may have delivered Victoria a solid growth forecast for 2021 but the latest ratings downgrade from Standard and Poor’s suggests a very different...

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Insurers have been granted some wriggle room on the regulatory requirements around delivering product disclosure statements and financial services guides to clients and a...

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A NSW Supreme Court Judge has admonished the Australian Financial Complaints Authority for stepping beyond what is appropriate by “joining the fray” to prompt the filing ...

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The licence will continue on a limited basis for anther year to ensure Halifax follows through required obligations to previous customers....

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The corporate regulator has approved variations to the banking code of practice, including improving the definition of small business....

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The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has denied its chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, deliberately misled a Parliamentary Committee about the public ava...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is arguing that obtaining professional indemnity insurance is not as big a problem for financial planning licensees a...

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The introduction of design and distribution obligations this October will make it even more important for firms to have strict data management processes in place, accordi...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is insisting it has empathy for financial planning licensees because it has both former advisers and paraplanners in ...

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The stock exchange outage in November led to deteriorating liquidity, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found, but the regulator has questioned why...

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The stock exchange outage in November led to deteriorating liquidity, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found, but the regulator has questioned why...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 6 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

3 weeks 2 days ago

ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

3 days 23 hours ago