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CSLR a 'shared responsibility' for all AFCA members: SMSFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... most efficient and equitable way to fund the special levy is to spread it across all Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) sub-sectors. The sentiment aligns with the Financial Advice Association Australia's (FAAA) suggestion earlier this ...

InterPrac wants super funds' reserves to remediate Shield, First Guardian victims

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... via superannuation funds' reserves. InterPrac is currently facing $22 million worth of Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) pertaining to its representatives' alleged roles in the loss of $1 billon of investor money. InterPrac managing director ...

ASIC, APRA outline regulatory reform opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) have outlined opportunities for regulatory reform in letters sent to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher. APRA ...

Binance names head of APAC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... & Co, and Amicorp Group. He also worked as a litigator in Australia and as a central banking lawyer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Seker's appointment came just months after Matt Poblocki, another senior executive with a strong fintech and ...

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 ...