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Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
The industry's remuneration practices and policies played a major role in the banking misconduct uncovered by the Royal Commission Inquiry, the interim report found. Governance and risk management practices failed to prevent the misconduct where ...

Hayne admonishes ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... size of ASIC's remit, the "deeply entrenched" culture of negotiating outcome, and if its enforcement policies and practices are congruent with the needs of the economy. On his last point, Hayne explained: "Legislation allowing punishment (criminal ...

NAB, MLC face class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... including students, people without gainful employment and people on disability pensions. Slater and Gordon allege the sales practices amounts to unconscionable conduct, meaning MLC and NAB contravened the ASIC Act. Acting on behalf of customers, the ...

Industry veterans join global commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... financial services sector's approach to anti-slavery and anti-trafficking compliance; responsible investment and lending practices; and financial sector innovation to address modern slavery and human trafficking. Yesterday, the Commission heard how financial ...

ASIC extends relief to foreign financial services firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... Services Providers-Limited Connection) Instrument 2017/182. Separately, ASIC is calling for improvements in the disclosure practices of listed companies. In ASIC Report 593, the corporate regulator found limited climate risk disclosure outside of the ...

Give life code a chance, Loane tells Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... heard in the first week of the hearings, referring specifically to the ClearView and Freedom Insurance episodes, whose practices of selling direct life insurance - particularly over the phone - absorbed much of the attention of the fortnight-long insurance ...

Improve climate risk disclosure: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
ASIC has called for improvements to the consistency of disclosure practices among Australia's listed companies. In ASIC Report 593, the corporate regulator found limited climate risk disclosure outside of the top-200 listed companies in Australia. ASIC's ...

Easton buys SMSF service provider

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
... advice. "FASEA's January 1 changes to education standards probably don't have the same amount of pressure for accounting practices as they do advice practices, as most accountants already have degrees," he said. "Accountants have been engaged with SMSFs ...

FPA appoints former ASFA adviser

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2018
... newly-created role. The FPA has created the role of professional practice manager to focus on the association's professional practices program. Joining the FPA in this position is Ken Whitton. Most recently Whitton was ASFA's senior policy adviser where ...

How much your advice business will be worth in 2023

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... has seen. Another speaker on the panel, The Wealth Partnership director Tony Rumble, contested Raftery's claim. "If practices are worth 0.75 times in 2023, there will be blood on the streets," Rumble said. "I was talking to a lawyer who said 0.5 but ...