AFCA

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has been urged to identify the firms against which complaints are being made as well as their suppliers such as insurance co...

Financial planning

As financial planning firms worry about whether their professional indemnity insurance will cover legacy complaints, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Policy & Regulation

Financial planning firms should brace for an influx of legacy complaints in the wake of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission clearing the final regulatory...

Financial planning

Changes made to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority following the Hayne Royal Commission are ‘flawed’ according to legal firm Creevey Russell Lawyers. ...

Policy & Regulation

Superannuation funds have warned that the complexity of the superannuation system is such that the Australian Financial Complaints Authority should not judge them on the ...

Financial planning

The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has announced it is recruiting for a number of newly-created senior roles....

Policy & Regulation

Industry superannuation funds are urging the Australian Financial Complaints Authority to publish data which identifies which particular types of financial services organ...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has suspended the licence of Sydney-based Australasia Wealth Services Management (ASWM) for failing to meet re...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has flagged to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority the high likelihood that professional indemnity insurers will refuse to co...

Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has accused the Government of unliterally and retrospectively seeking to alter the contract which exists between licensees and the A...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Financial Complaints Authority of the risk of planners facing double jeopardy if it reopens matters already d...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association has warned the Australian Financial Complaints Authority of significant consequences if professional indemnity insurance cover does not...

Policy & Regulation

Consumers can expect improved justice and recourse should they be victims of wrongdoing by the financial services industry as the result of a Senate Committee report hand...

Policy & Regulation

The Government has committed to paying unpaid Financial Ombudsman Service determinations impacting consumers and small businesses up to $30.7 million....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground cancelling the licenses of two accounting firms for failing to obtain membership of the Austral...

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