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Australia ahead in gender diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
... because firms are failing to treat gender diversity as a business priority by way of setting targets and holding leaders accountable for results. This is an abstract of a story first published in the latest print issue of Financial Standard. You can ...

APRA could oversee stalled super fund mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... accountability regime (BEAR) to be extended to super funds and insurance. Under it, superfunds would have to nominate an accountable person to the regulators. "It would be prudent to enable both ASIC and APRA to seek disqualification of accountable persons ...

Superannuation to face BEAR: Hayne

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... effect for large ADIs on 1 July 2018 and becomes applicable for the smaller players one year later. It requires an 'accountable person' that holds a board or senior executive position to register with APRA and conduct the business with honesty ...

Commonwealth FP fails to meet EU obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... licensee's systems, processes and controls. An attestation was also supposed to be provided from Commonwealth Bank's accountable person - as under the Banking Executive Accountability Regime - around CFPL's remediation efforts. The attestation ...

APRA not clear how to police BEAR breaches

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... day, Byres told senior counsel assisting Michael Hodge that while it had an interim plan to manage breaches by an accountable person at a bank under BEAR, it hadn't fully fleshed out its enforcement strategy for the regime. Byres blamed the delay two ...

ANZ hid reasons for executive pay cuts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... subjecting the pay cuts to public scrutiny, he wasn't sure it was the most effective way to hold the executives accountable. "The audience we are trying to change the behaviour here is not the public, it's the staff. And we have many avenues ...

CBA board ignored key issues in deciding executive pay

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... the matters considered by the risk and remuneration review committee. It made no mention of which executives were accountable for each risk matter, or how they handled it. The document recorded a $115 million provision for fee-for-no-service failings ...

Comyn promises personal accountability

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... outdated medical definition issues. Under his watch, Comyn told counsel assisting Rowena Orr that he will be personally accountable for the actions of the bank going forward and iterated that customer outcomes will be prioritised over financial objectives. ...

APRA readies ADIs for BEAR

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... July 2018. The information paper notes one key element of the BEAR involves an ADI identifying its own individual accountable persons, who must then be registered with APRA. "The ADI must provide APRA with individual accountability statements clearly ...

Frydenberg slams financial sector greed

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... misconduct should be front of mind, he added. These are the individuals working for the institutions who must be "held accountable and responsible for their actions." He urged the regulators to enforce the laws at their disposal as well as the penalties. ...