ASIC

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has provided legislative relief that will allow exchange-traded fund market makers to make named short sales in ETF a...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned former NAB branch manager, Mathew Alwan....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged the mandating of a minimum balance for self-managed superannuation funds and a ban on limited recourse borr...

Policy & Regulation

The Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission have each entered agreements with ASIC to cooperate and und...

Life/Risk

ClearView has told the Royal Commission it has no intention of returning to direct life/risk insurance and will remain focused on the advised market....

Policy & Regulation

The interim report and the Royal Commission's hearings clearly show that some financial institutions have fallen far short of treating Australians honestly and fairly, ac...

Policy & Regulation

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has slammed the industry regulators for failing to sufficiently punish...

Policy & Regulation

Financial services licensees rather than individual planners are facing the most change likely to result from the preliminary findings of the Royal Commission into Miscon...

Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has called on financial institutions to improve their response time to incidents, saying that action was urgently needed if they were going...

Policy & Regulation

A review by the regulator has described delays by financial institutions in reporting, addressing and remediating significant breaches as “unacceptable”....

Life/Risk

Industry superannuation fund REST has filed a breach report with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission after admitting to failings during the Royal Commiss...

Expert Analysis

Arian Neiron breaks down the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s recent report on exchange-traded products, exploring why the regulator warned of wide spre...

Outsider

And as the sun slowly fades into the west ... Outsider notes the impending departure of Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chairman, Peter Kell....

Policy & Regulation

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has set aside a decision by the regulator to ban Perth adviser Robert Hutchison from providing any financial services....

Policy & Regulation

The securities regulator said it has taken action to stop several proposed initial coin offerings or “token-generation events” that target retail investors....

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