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Tight regulation getting in the way of digital advice: Minter Ellison

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... being prevented from using sophisticated online tools to provide tailored information to their clients due to tight regulation, and instead can only use simple tools, Minter Ellison said. "While [the Australian Securities and Investments Commission] ...

Expect more regulation on 'too-big-to-fail': Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
Large financial institutions considered "too big to fail" are likely to be required to have additional protections in case they fail, Treasurer Joe Hockey said at the G20 meeting of Finance ministers in Cairns this weekend. Hockey said that the Financial ...

Citi appoints former ASIC deputy chair to board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... Commission (ASIC) Belinda Gibson. Gibson was with ASIC from 2007 to 2013, where she had primary responsibility for the regulation of the financial and securities markets. Before her role at ASIC Gibson was a corporate and securities law partner at Mallesons ...

ASIC: Beware fake forex website

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... entities Fifx and FiFX Global promote their services at www.fifx.com and falsely claim that their services are 'under the regulation of Australia (Regulation No. 290600)'. ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer said neither First Forex, FiFx or FiFX Global are ...

Tyndall to adopt parent name

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... NZ$3.8 billion (US$3.3 billion) in June 2014. According to a June 2013 survey conducted by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, some 31% of superannuation fund assets were allocated to global investments, with 25% in equity and 6% in fixed ...

Why are bonds no longer a safe haven?

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The reputation of bonds as being a safe haven is being challenged by a surge in global financial market re-regulation, according to UBS head of investment strategy Tracey McNaughton. At a media briefing in Sydney yesterday McNaughton said that the repeal ...

UK FCA to review social media guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... and closes in November this year will incorporate qualitative research and a cost-benefit analysis should additional regulation be required. The FCA noted in its discussion paper which details how the review will operate that social media refers to the ...

FOS demands licensee-funded consumer protection scheme

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... paid when awarded compensation in a FOS decision. The submission also asked for a reframe of the consumer protection regulation that is "more clearly based on the fair treatment of customers at all stages of what is an increasingly integrated product ...

Ties between product and advice "archaic": FPA

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... financial advice and financial product distribution becomes further entrenched with each development in the law and in the regulation of financial planners generally." As a result of this FPA has suggested that the terms 'financial planner', 'financial ...

Executives lose sleep over changing regulation

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
Two thirds of investment executives are losing sleep over changing government regulation, according to BNP Paribas Securities Services' 'Asset Administration & Custody Review'. In a survey of 110 senior executives working in Australian asset management ...