The FPA will drop its efforts to enshrine 'financial planner' under law claiming it would be automatically protected if recommendations from the PJC are adopted by the Fe...

The Australian Bankers Association has defended vertical integration claiming many super funds are vertically integrated too....

ASIC must forge a tighter relationship with the industry it regulates if it is to improve effectiveness of its regulation, according to CPA Australia and Chartered Accoun...

The directors and trustees of investment companies carry far less regulatory onus than financial planners, according to Centrepoint Alliance....

A Victorian adviser has agreed not to provide financial services for a year under the terms of an EU with ASIC....

An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation will see a managed discretionary account provider change the way it offers foreign exchange servi...

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

Financial services companies that adopt and use financial technology (fintech) are most likely to succeed while the sector undergoes disruption and change according to AW...

The financial services industry has broadly welcomed the positives in the FSI final report....

The financial services industry is being urged to embrace technology to help boost consumers’ understanding of financial products....

A Perth based financial planner has begun a campaign to seek an apology from independent senator Jackie Lambie after she labelled financial advisers as ‘unscrupulous’....

Rowena Cole explores the ASX's new mFund offering and its opportunities for advice and SMSFs....

A former financial adviser has been jailed after being found guilty of stealing shares worth almost $1.5 million to meet margin calls on his mother’s margin lending accou...

Labor’s move to block the Government’s FOFA reforms will stifle the financial services industry and could render it a basket case on the international stage, a legal expe...