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Reforms will strengthen retirement advice: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... there will be a place for accountants with expertise to support their clients on SMSF issues. "We currently have a regulatory setting where every accountant I talk to is terrified of saying very normal things, [but] they're worried it's going ...

Risk, compliance staff in hot demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
With regulatory demands showing no signs of slowing in 2024, experienced risk and compliance professionals remain hot property. According to Kaizen Recruitment director Amanda Chisholm, factors like RG97, the Financial Accountability Regime, regulators' ...

APRA proposes updated operational risk financial requirements

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has proposed changes to operational risk financial requirements for registrable superannuation entities (RSE) licensees. The prudential regulators adjustments are designed to bolster the ability ...

Link, The Trust Bank progress acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... having kicked off work to integrate the businesses. In a trading update this morning, Link said it has filed all major regulatory approval submissions with relevant authorities in Australia, the UK, Europe, and India for the transaction to progress. ...

ANZ gets green light for Suncorp merger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
ANZ has had a significant legal win on appeal, with its proposed $4.9 billion acquisition of Suncorp's banking arm given the go-ahead. The decision to authorise the takeover was handed down this morning by the Australian Competition Tribunal (ACT) ...

Mergers a boon for super member growth

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
... investments and membership base," said Myers. "At the strategic level, further mergers, increased competition, a shifting regulatory member focus and the skewed favourability of the Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) stapling legislation, will exert further ...

VanEck failed to disclose influencer's role in ETF launch: SEC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
VanEck will pay US$1.75 million ($2.7m) to settle a case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which alleged the investment manager failed to disclose the involvement of an influencer in the launch of an ETF in 2021. In the US, VanEck Associates ...

Commonwealth Bank slapped with $10.3m fine for wage theft

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
Commonwealth Bank was fined $10.3 million by the Federal Court for its involvement in wage theft which led to $16 million in underpayments to over 7400 workers. The case emerged after the Finance Sector Union (FSU) uncovered the bank's systematic ...

ASIC files lawsuit against unlicensed director, companies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
The corporate regulator filed a lawsuit against a Queensland man who allegedly deceived people he knew into handing over $100 million to invest in companies he owned without a financial services licence. ASIC commenced proceedings in the Federal Court ...

Former director pleads guilty to hedge fund con

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
The former director of Reiwa-Capital is facing possible jail time and a hefty fine after he convinced people to hand over more than $400,000 for the purpose of investing before spending it all elsewhere and paying back just 1% of the total to investors. ...