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Policy & Regulation
The Finance Sector Union has backed measures like the Sedgewick Inquiry and the Bank Executive Accountability Regime but argues that only a Royal Commission will really w...
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government has adopted a ‘taking action now’ mantra in dealing with the major banks....
Editorial
The financial planning industry will need to unite behind higher educational standards and ethics and reject the noisy dissenters if it is to become a profession, Mike Ta...
Financial planning
Labor’s proposed Royal Commission into the banking and financial services industry represents an inquiry looking for something to inquire about, according to the Ministe...
Policy & Regulation
The Government needs to diagnose what Australians are actually angry about before holding a Royal Commission, according to the former Treasurer....
Editorial
The Federal Opposition will be on the right track in pursuing a review of the financial services regulatory settings, but only if it aims to identify the failings while f...
Editorial
Recent federal ministerial rhetoric suggests the financial services industry has few friends in high places and difficulty in finding its voice, Mike Taylor writes....
Financial planning
A Royal Commission will trump any Productivity Commission scrutiny of vertical integration in the financial services sector, according to Federal Opposition leader, Bill ...
Policy & Regulation
Vertical integration in the financial services industry will be the subject of scrutiny by the Productivity Commission....
Financial planning
Reviews into retail banking remuneration may raise awareness about the sales culture but it will not alter the product-pushing behaviour of banks and other financial inst...
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that in a delicately-balanced House of Representatives there is no guarantee the Government can continue to deflect pressure for a banking Royal Commis...
Policy & Regulation
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has cited LIF and higher adviser standards as part of the Government's agenda in preference to a Royal Commission....
Policy & Regulation
The Federal Government is portraying the creation of a mega-ombudsman for the financial services industry as preferable to the lawyer’s picnic which would accompany a Roy...
Financial planning
Bank employees want to deliver service to their customers instead of being under constant pressure to sell, the FSU believes....
Financial planning
In opposing a Royal Commission into the banking sector, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the legal profession would be the only beneficiary while victims would not be...
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