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Fintechs will now have a regulatory sandbox that will allow them to test new products and services for 24 months without obtaining a financial services or credit licence....
Financial planning
Superannuation funds have identified the manner which Government policy changes and increased regulation is pushing the cost of advice beyond the means of many low-income...
Financial planning
Former director of Spectrum Wealth Advisers, Mark Schroeder, has been banned from providing financial services for six years following numerous compliance failures....
Financial planning
Compensation paid by the six largest banking and financial services institutions for fee-for-no-service and non-compliant advice is at $749.7 million, according to the co...
Financial planning
The new design and distribution obligations regime could increase costs that could be passed onto consumers, according to a law firm....
Financial planning
Proposed new legislation would have the effect of compelling advisers or licensees to breach report competitors if they believed something adverse was happening....
Editorial
Much of the commentary attaching to the first anniversary of the Hayne Royal Commission recommendations has tended to flatter what was, objectively, a flawed outcome thor...
Features
Mike Taylor writes that advisers need to be alert to the current discussion around the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s proposed new design and distribu...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has driven home the message that it will look beyond adviser misconduct to those who allowed it to occur....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that AMP has been ordered to pay $5.175 million penalty after failing to prevent insurance churn by its...
Funds management
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained an order to win up Global Merces on just and equitable grounds....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed how it placed conditions on superannuation funds which had the effect of ending the payment of commissi...
Financial planning
Financial adviser Timothy Shapter has been banned for seven years for failing best interests duty and his licensee Smart Solutions has had its licence cancelled....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council has recommended the two regulators must collaborate on information, documentation, and data requests and collection....
Financial planning
Superannuation funds have been ‘engaged’ by the regulators over payments to financial advisers and other third parties....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...