Appearing before the Senate economics committee via video link with all the associated technical difficulties and political grilling must be a nerve-wracking experience, ...

The Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Association has welcomed the report that led to the corporate regulator putting additional licence conditions on the Australian Se...

Advisers would be wise to understand online investing services given they are democratising investment and removing barriers to entry, Laura Dew finds....

The corporate watchdog secured nearly $190 million in civil penalties during the last financial year and increased civil litigations by 28%....

The corporate regulator also expects its focus on financial advisers to decline and looks to provide better examples of records of advice to decrease the compliance burde...

Jane Hume said she has no interest in perpetuating a ‘nanny state culture’ where it resorts to banning things to save people from their own follies such as making financi...

The corporate watchdog’s chair, Joe Longo, has no plans to let up on the body’s litigation commitment despite pulling back on the public emphasis his predecessor had plac...

The corporate regulator’s new chair, Joe Longo, believes that reading the publicly available report of the regulator’s governance practices is sufficient and has not aske...

Former Macquarie Group chief executive Nicholas Moore will be chair of the authority that will oversee the corporate and prudential regulators....

The legislation to set up the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority has passed to assist the corporate watchdog’s new chair to ensure the Australian Securities and Inv...

The corporate watchdog is looking at its enforcement settings as priorities have changed but being an active litigant when needed is still on the table. ...

The challenge for the corporate regulator and policy makers is to figure out a way to make the advice regime more digestible, practical, and affordable for consumers....

The Government has appointed Joe Longo as its chair, replacing James Shipton....