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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...

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None of the outcomes resulted in criminal proceedings, and there is a similar percentage of ongoing cases by the corporate regulator....

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To reduce the reporting burden, the corporate regulator is allowing licensees to batch upload reports that derive from a single root cause as part of the new breach repor...

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If the corporate regulator had funds awarded by penalties put into the financial advice levy it could look like a new revenue stream aimed at players with deep pockets....

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The regulator has outlined the purpose, design and scope of its climate vulnerability assessment to help regulated entities, including the largest banks, understand and m...

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Product issuers and distributors need to be careful with what incentives apply to distributors who sell products to those target customers, according to EY....

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Successful litigation against NAB, Westpac and Dixon Advisory could add enough to the corporate regulators coffers to cover the difference from the reduced levy....

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Without the Government’s intervention, levies on financial advice would have increased from $25.6 million in 2017-18 to an estimated $71.4 million in 2020-21....

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There will be more balance in the corporate watchdog in responding to technical or inadvertent contraventions, according to a law firm. ...

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Outlined in its corporate plan, the Government welcomed the corporate regulator’s embrace of the “deregulation agenda”....

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Industry bodies have welcomed the Government’s decision to implement a temporary reduction in cost recovery levies for the next two years, as well as a review of the indu...

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The corporate watchdog has said it has been communicating with Government and Treasury about its funding model for three years but that they needed to be compliant with t...

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