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Overhaul executive remuneration: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
Financial Standard readers have decried how banking and financial services executives are remunerated following insight into how CBA remunerated its executives at the financial services Royal Commission. Eighty-nine percent of respondents in our recent ...

Wealth an unnecessary failure: Thorburn

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... how to save for retirement didn't come naturally to bankers, adding wealth management was outside the natural circle of banking. "When we sit down and talk to them about banking-type needs, it easily moves into saving for retirement, protecting yourself ...

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
ASIC chair James Shipton said he is in favour of applying the Banking Executive Accountability Regime to senior ASIC staff while being quizzed on the regulator's current governance. After telling Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr that he believes ...

Royal Commission on social media: Executives grilled

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
As the Royal Commission turned its attention financial services executives this week, commentators took to twitter to have their say. The evidence in the Royal Commission skillfully examined by star QC Rowena ORR is stunning. Board requested former ...

Aussie banks underestimated difficulties of advice: Hartzer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... assumptions about the way that they went about that business; thought that it would sit neatly within the framework of banking, and clearly underestimated how much change was going to be required to make that work," Hartzer said. Counsel assisting Michael ...

FASEA listens as advice industry combs blueprint

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... Kewin said. These fields include accounting, taxation law, finance law, finance, business law, investment, estate law, banking and economics. "This is much more in alignment with what we had advocated. Impacted members will need to go back and review ...

AFCA creates small businesses ombudsman role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... money. Coonan added AFCA recognises that small businesses are a very important part of the Australian economy and the banking Royal Commission has demonstrated how devastating it can be when their financial disputes are not fairly resolved. On 1 November ...

New degree tackles adviser education standards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... facing significant changes both with the introduction of the new qualification standards and recommendations from the banking Royal Commission - the combination of these two will reshape the industry. "We will likely see a shift towards more independent ...

Global tech wars disrupt $600m market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... millennial market segment in Australia, with local players facing stiff competition from US and Chinese fintechs. At a banking technology conference session held in Sydney last month titled "The Future of Money", an expert panel argued that technology ...

Industry fund adds chief risk role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... information security. Most notably, Vassallo is a former general manager, operational risk and compliance of NAB's business banking division. Prior to that he held various senior risk roles with NAB, having spent about 17 years with the bank. "The appointment ...