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ASIC sets sights on dark pools

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... Secretaries Australia event yesterday, Belinda Gibson, deputy chairman of ASIC said the regulator has already set up a taskforce to look at how the growing market of dark pools, and particularly 'internalisers,' should be regulated and whether the current ...

New RBA deputy governor named

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... National Workplace Relations Consultative Committee, Infrastructure Australia, Skills Australia and the Prime Minister's Taskforce on Manufacturing. "I again thank Mr Battellino and Mr Kraehe and congratulate both Dr Lowe and Mrs Ridout on their appointments," ...

Aust fund managers passport to Japan

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... passport framework to offer that product in each of the other signatory nations. Mark Johnson, chairman, Financial Centre Taskforce said today at the report's briefing that the Taskforce is assisting the government and policymakers to remove impediments ...

Banking on a super precedent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... a draft fact sheet template. The third is the proposal for portable bank account numbers. Again, if Bernie Fraser's Taskforce can build his argument about how this would work in practice and then he manages to pull it off, creating a regime for portable ...

Opt in rules not up for debate

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2010
... anything to go by. Speaking at the FPA conference on the Gold Coast, Dr Richard Sandlant, manager of the financial services taskforce unit at the Treasury Department said that "it is not envisaged that the policy will change", adding that the consultation ...

FPA maintains stance on commission ban

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... code of professional practice," he said. Separately, Sanders said the FPA's newly created Future of Financial Advice Taskforce, which is responsible for developing positions on each of the reform proposals that affect planners, has been successful so ...

FPA sets up Treasury taskforce

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2010
The Financial Planning Association has established a new taskforce to respond specifically to the FPA's consultation program with Federal Treasury. The new taskforce, called Future of Financial Advice Taskforce, will be responsible for building strong ...

ACCC sounds online fraud alarm

REGULATORY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... most complained about scam category in 2009," Kell said. Online scams are the focus for the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce's 2010 Fraud Week campaign. The campaign, Online Offensive-Fighting Fraud Online runs from 1-7 March. "The ACCC recorded ...

FPA reviews award categories

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) revamped its honorary awards to emphasise the achievements and professional success of its winners. Jo-Anne Bloch, FPA chief executive, said association wanted to clarify the types of awards available and boost ...

ASIC zones in on accountants pushing SMSFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
... under the exemption. For us that indicates investment advice is being provided." DuPre said the ASIC Retail Investor Taskforce would prosecute accountants on the basis of whether clients have financially suffered as a result of the advice. "We focus ...