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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has moved to amend the regulatory settings to ensure the banks and other major financial institutions pay appropriately for close and continuous mo...

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Policy & Regulation

The Federal Government has budgeted to break new ground by shifting financial services criminal prosecutions away from the states and into the jurisdiction of the Federal...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority have already been identified as major funding winners from next mo...

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Policy & Regulation

Linchpin and Endeavour have been placed into liquidation following action by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground cancelling the licenses of two accounting firms for failing to obtain membership of the Austral...

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Policy & Regulation

The Financial Services Council has received a clear message from the Government that it needs to make its Life Insurance Code of Conduct enforceable....

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Financial planning

Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned former Financial Wisdom advisor Anneliese Ada Willmott....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been granted an extension of its interim orders to restrain the company from removing their assets from Australia...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed closer scrutiny of advice provided via superannuation funds while noting that conflicts of interest in ...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has wound up an illegal land banking investment scheme, Melbourne-based company Aviation 3030....

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Policy & Regulation

The last of 19 civil actions brought by ASIC against financial services licensees recommending Westpoint products has wrapped up, with almost $1.5 million being recovered...

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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has signalled the degree to which it will be changing its platform arrangements to overcome fee for no service problems....

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Policy & Regulation

A former Australian Financial Services authorised representative has been jailed for 10 years for using clients’ funds “as he pleased”....

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Superannuation

The rules and definitions imposed by superannuation funds is core to the barriers to access to super faced by indigenous people....

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Policy & Regulation

With industry funding invoices due in two days’ time, ASIC has urged all individuals holding a license and covered by the Government’s laws for funding of the regulator's...

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