Banks, insurers and super trustees need to do more than talk the talk where climate change is concerned, with a key regulator urging them to also act to mitigate risks to...
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has served notice of tougher prudential standards around executive salaries, including ensuring variable remuneration is tr...
The last of 19 civil actions brought by ASIC against financial services licensees recommending Westpoint products has wrapped up, with almost $1.5 million being recovered...
Regardless of what outcome the United Kingdom and European Union reach on Brexit, it has already inflicted unprecedented damage on the former’s financial services industr...
Another survey, this time by the Australian Foundation Investment Company, has unsurprisingly found that many investors are deeply concerned by Labor’s proposed franking ...
The Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has released a consultation paper which would significantly toughen up approaches to industry codes of conduct including making som...
A Sydney law firm has announced a class action against IOOF based on losses to shareholders resulting from the Royal Commission and the action initiated by the Australian...
A former Australian Financial Services authorised representative has been jailed for 10 years for using clients’ funds “as he pleased”....
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has sent a clear message to superannuation funds that it is prepared to name and shame underperformers, with three funds al...
The deputy chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Helen Rowell, has signalled the regulator may be prepared to name persistently under-performing fun...
Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Professor Alan Fels has criticised the Royal Commission for failing to address the problems of bank vertic...
With industry funding invoices due in two days’ time, ASIC has urged all individuals holding a license and covered by the Government’s laws for funding of the regulator's...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...