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Signed, sealed and delivered: Treasury consultations in 2024

With a raft of Treasury consultations announced last year, Money Management examines their progress through Parliament and which could pass this year. ...

Funds management

Government opens digital asset regulation consultation

The government has opened a consultation to increase regulation for digital asset and crypto platforms via holding an AFSL, including for those who give advice or promote...

Policy & Regulation

Government launches second consultation on climate-related financial disclosure

The government is seeking views on its proposed position for the implementation of an internationally-aligned climate disclosure, following its discovery consultation las...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC consults on licensee remediation guidance

The most common “stumbling block” in consumer remediation by licensees was underinvesting in systems which have led to multiple failures....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC consults on consumer remediation

The corporate regulator’s consultation aims to help firms identify issues that can lead to remediations earlier and to have arrangements and systems in place to return mo...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC opens consultation on second product intervention order

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched a consultation on a second product intervention order to stop continuing consumer harm. ...

Financial planning

FASEA on notice over ASIC submissions

The Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority is now on formal notice to answer Senate Estimates questions about the content of Australian Securities and Investmen...

Policy & Regulation

Govt consults on Business Growth Fund legislation

The Australian Business Growth Fund will allow small to medium-sized enterprises improved access to financial capital....

Life/Risk

FPA gives cautious backing to standardised insurance terms

The Financial Planning Association has given its backing to the standardisation of terms and definitions with respect to insurance with MySuper products but has caused ag...

Financial planning

FPA reiterates support for planners in face of FASEA

The Financial Planning Association has sought to calm advisers nervous about FASEA’s reforms at its Professionals Congress this morning, promising that “we will help you ...

Financial planning

FASEA on self-imposed year-end deadline

Planners should expect FASEA’s final standards by Christmas, with the Authority’s chief executive, Stephen Glenfield, today saying that his intention was to have them fin...

Financial planning

We acted on consultation feedback: FASEA

The chief executive of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, Stephen Glenfield, today sought to reassure planners that the Authority had taken account of ...