ASIC has approved the Australian Banking Association’s new Banking Code of Practice following an independent review and stakeholder consideration....

The Government has reduced the $40 fee to access ASIC online business registries and extended the fee exemption to all journalists. ...

The Federal Court has wound up five companies for their role in the operation of two land banking schemes following an ASIC investigation. ...

Mike Taylor writes that if one thing has distinguished the past five years in the financial services it has been the exponential growth in regulatory and compliance costs...

The Financial Services Council has backed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s external report of RG97. ...

The Federal Court has handed down its judgment on the contempt findings brought by ASIC against multiple defendants in proceedings concerning binary option trading websit...

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has reduced the length of a banning order made against former Hobart financial planner Troy Williams, that prohibited him from providi...

ASIC has banned Queensland financial adviser, James Cribb, from providing financial services for four years. ...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has urged giving consumers the right to take legal action against insurers who breach the Financial Services Council’...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has canvassed its product intervention power being extended to identifying inappropriate remuneration structures....

The Government has established a Phoenix Hotline to combat the phoenixing activity of dishonest directors and their companies. ...

Don’t anyone dare suggest that the registries run by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are a fee-gouging exercise....

Mike Taylor writes that the enforceable undertakings entered into by the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and ANZ over retail superannuation product distribution point to the peri...

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has entered an enforceable undertaking with the regulator for its participation in the setting of the Bank Bill Swap Rate. ...