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Advisers to review privacy compliance

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
Advisers have until March 12, 2014, to ensure their privacy compliance measures meet new privacy principles. The new Australian Privacy Principles require personal information to be handled in an open and transparent way, which means that financial ...

CBA follows ASIC's lead in Senate submission

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... CBA also suggested that ASIC should be the sole custodian and administrator of such a passport scheme "to protect the privacy of financial planners." The submission acknowledged that "there is a risk that financial planners who do not adhere to appropriate ...

CBA could face legal action over Operation Lantern

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... Levitt claimed that photographic surveillance without a warrant is a legal offence and he also referred to the National Privacy Principles set out in the Privacy Act, 1988, which restricts the collection and treatment of personal information. "Given ...

SIFMA talks up Wall Street cyber defences

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013
... Security. The attack scenario was modeled as a system wide attack to steal money through fraudulent trades rather than a privacy breach or an attack to crash the financial system. Its parameters (referred to in the report as 'attack vectors') were creation ...

Data security emerging as a superannuation risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... example, many companies think hackers want to bring down their networks when they actually want to obtain money and so a privacy breach can be a bigger threat if they can obtain private information and then use this to conduct legitimate albeit fraudulent ...

Topdocs automates SMSF deed updating

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... "Auditors can be given special access rights to the system so they only see the information they need, protecting the privacy of clients. This in turn simplifies the process to review and sign off on deeds, minimising auditing costs."

FATCA outcome remains unclear

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... Australian Taxation Office rather than directly to the IRS, an IGA would help to avoid conflicts with local laws, such as data privacy," said Siviour. "It would also go a long way to lessening the compliance burden on local financial institutions by ...

Murdoch matriarch remembered for charity work

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... Elisabeth famously criticised Rupert Murdoch's now defunct UK tabloid The News of the World as being too intrusive on people's privacy. News Limited CEO Kim Williams said she was "an extraordinary national figure who inspired generations of Australians ...

Model FATCA intergov agreement imminent

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... having to breach local laws in order to comply with US laws," Brogden said. The FATCA rules as they stand require that if privacy and secrecy rules exist in an FFI's country that the institution asks any US customer to waive their rights under the rules ...

Fix churn with watch list: AFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... Financial Services Council (FSC) calls for a crackdown on 'churning.' The watch list would extend as far as allowable under privacy legislation with insurers permitted to share information to establish who the churners are and create the list accessible ...