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Australian banks will need to adopt a forward-looking approach and move to leverage new technologies to counter new risk and regulatory threats, according to a new study....
Financial planning
Plaintiff law firms are continuing their focus on financial services, turning to social media networks to attract the attention of clients....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC has confirmed it will not necessarily take action on allegations of false and misleading advertising if it believes the complainants can do so themselves....
Superannuation
The Trade Union Royal Commission has provided the Government with ammunition to pursue its changes to default funds under modern awards....
Superannuation
A superannuation fund industry survey has revealed most believe that SMSFs should be regulated by APRA....
Superannuation
The ACTU has denied a conflict of interest may exist where unions receive payment from industry super funds when union officials serve on their trustee boards....
Superannuation
Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer has expressed concern at newspaper reports that union officials received $5.4 million in director fees from industry funds....
Superannuation
The Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer, has released the exposure draft of key legislation aimed at opening up default fund choices....
Policy & Regulation
The ATO confirms it has visited seven adviser firms and has obtained more than 5,000 client names from wealth management firms....
Financial planning
The Commonwealth Bank has emerged with a win as the NSW Supreme Court awards $300,000 in damages to a senior executive who successfully pursued an advice-related defamati...
Editorial
The Financial Services Council’s Blake Briggs argues that the Government’s changes to super fund governance arrangements and default funds will ultimately help consumers....
Life/Risk
ASIC has cancelled insurance broker, Leedam’s AFSL a month after its sole director was banned from providing financial services....
Financial planning
The Federal Government intends reconstituting the Financial Sector Advisory Council but will planners get a voice?...
Financial planning
A new e-book analysing mistakes within SOAs identifies failings around identifying what is really in a client’s best interests....
Policy & Regulation
Australian Capital Markets' parent company, Formax International, gets rap over knuckles from ASIC over misleading interpretation of ACM AFSL suspension....
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