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FAAA calls for other sectors to help pay $67m CSLR bill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... responsibility for funding the levy spread further. It has recommended all members of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority be required to contribute. It added that the CSLR needs to be treated as a genuine scheme of last resort, meaning ASIC ...

Real estate private credit market tips towards $153bn

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... acquisition of Curtin University's Student Accommodation. "Over the past decade, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has curbed banks' exposure to commercial real estate (CRE), especially construction lending - now viewed as capital-intensive ...

Shield-linked advice firm director, compliance manager banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... use of lead generators and failed to advise clients of their rights to complain to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. As a result, MWL managing director Nicholas Maikousis has been banned from providing financial services for 10 years. ASIC ...

ATO eyes SMSF illegal early access

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
... reporting event and by lodging the transfer balance account report. "If an SMSF fails to respond to the commutation authority within 60 days of the notice, the member's income stream ceases to be in retirement phase and the SMSF can't claim an ...

Super board moves: ART, Aware, Brighter Super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... He also holds current directorships with HumanAbility Jobs and Skills Council and the Victorian Portable Long Service Authority Governing Board, and membership of the Commonwealth Government's National Aged Care Advisory Council and Aged Care Transition ...

InterPrac hit with $22m in AFCA complaints

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2025
... InterPrac Financial Planning is facing $22 million worth of complaints lodged with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) for its advisers' role in the collapse of the Shield Master Fund and First Guardian Master Fund. Sequoia said ...

FCA fines Neil Woodford, WIM $94m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... Woodford and his defunct company have been collectively fined more than £45 million ($94m) by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The regulator fined Woodford £5.89 million ($12.1m) and banned him from being employed in senior manager roles and ...

HESTA snags Equip Super risk chief

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025
... 20 years' experience to the fold. Prior to Equip Super, Alford was stationed at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) for nearly a decade in various capacities, including manager of supervision and principal analyst. The announcement ...

ASIC issues warning over BTG Technology

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... relation to Bitget entities, including Spain's Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, the Austrian Financial Market Authority, Germany's BaFin, Canada's Alberta Securities Commission, France's Autorité des Marchés Financiers, Cyprus's Securities ...

Investments, advice complaints jump 18%

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
... Master Fund, First Guardian Master Fund and Brite Advisors. This is according to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), which took in a total of 4193 submissions for the period. There was a whopping 95% rise in complaints involving SMSFs ...