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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is looking at whether clients are being accurately designated as wholesale or retail investors....

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To be effective, the Financial Regulator Oversight Authority needs to be allowed to assess particular actions, or group of actions, to properly assess the two financial r...

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The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has released its new regulatory framework for foreign financial services providers who are providing services to Austr...

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Licensees work hard for the stamping fees they are paid and should be entitled to keep them, according to Investment Collective managing director, David French....

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Tough times and lower interest rates have prompted the Government to put last year’s deeming rate changes under the microscope....

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A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

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The audit industry has been delivered a reasonably favourable assessment by a key Parliamentary Committee because the Australian Securities and Investments Commission sai...

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Over-the-counter derivative issuers AGM Markets, OT Markets and Ozifin Tech have been found by the Federal Court to have engaged in systemic and unconscionable conduct, c...

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Superannuation fund trustees will not be able to resort to members’ funds held in trust to pay civil penalties arising from the new Financial Accountability Regime....

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External law firms have been brought in as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission looks to wrap up referrals from the Royal Commission....

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Experience in the United Kingdom suggests it may be a lot more expensive to recruit and retain senior executives under the Government’s proposed new Financial Accountabil...

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The Federal Treasury has received yet more warnings that before it embarks on a compensation scheme of last resort it should fix professional indemnity insurance in circu...

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