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CBA backs financial counselling

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... customers in crisis; supporting gender equality; promoting financial wellbeing and education; and publicly advocating for change. FCA is a federated body and the peak body for Australian financial counsellors, comprising members of each state and territory ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... being too heavily reduced in the next few years, he said profitability was clearly under pressure. His comments follow the FCA's interim Asset Management Market Study report, which found that, at least in the UK, there was weak price competition between ...

FOS and CIO should merge: report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... better off as a single entity, according to a new Financial Counselling Australia report. The report, based on a survey of FCA members, found that 75% of financial counsellors were in support of a FOS and CIO merger so as to "reduce confusion for consumers" ...

BTIM creates new group executive role

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... in their respective roles at the start of BTIM's new financial year on 3 October 2016. Lambden's appointment is subject to FCA regulatory approval in the UK.

ASIC and UK regulator sign fintech deal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
ASIC and the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have agreed to support innovative businesses or fintechs entering each other's respective markets. The goal is to reduce regulatory uncertainty for new Australian businesses entering the UK market ...

UK regulator targets conflicts in investment consulting

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Asset consultants could be in the firing line as the UK's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), sets competition and conflicts of interest within the asset management industry in its sights. The heads of the UK's largest pension ...

NAB fined $40m over British bank failings

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service as well as adopting inappropriate complaint policies. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued the landmark fine and acting director of enforcement and market oversight, Georgina Philippou, said Clydesdale ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to chief executive officers of pension providers to outline government plans to introduce additional protection for retirees wishing to access their defined contribution pension pot from April this ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... $20 billion the equity hybrids, including the recent $2.6bn CBA hybrid PERLS VII. The UK's financial services watchdog, the FCA recently banned the issue of CoCos to retail investors while the EU equivalent, the EMA, has flagged it is likely to follow. ...

UK FCA to review social media guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is conducting a review of how wealth groups use social media to promote their products following concerns that more regulatory clarity may be needed. The review which was launched last month and closes in November ...