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Financial services laws under review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... the review with the findings of the Royal Commission, Australian Government Competition Policy Review, Financial System Inquiry, Treasury's 2017 ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce and the Productivity Commission's 2014 report in mind.

AMP does not treat advisers fairly: Poll

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... to licensees exiting the business and restraint of trade provisions." Labor senator Deborah O'Neill has called for an inquiry into the treatment of AMP advisers. She said AMP terminated businesses of 250 advisers, slashed BOLR values and left advisers ...

New law backs choice of fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... comply with the choice of fund requirements," the memorandum said. The bill addresses the findings of the Financial System Inquiry and the Productivity Commission Inquiry into superannuation, which found that denying choice of fund can discourage member ...

UK competition watchdog blocks merger

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2020
... companies' internal documents. It also engaged with customers, competitors, and other stakeholders to inform its findings. CMA inquiry group chair Martin Coleman said the evidence they have seen consistently points to the same direction as they are the ...

Ombudsman demands changes for small business insolvencies

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... put in place to protect small businesses from a 'tsunami' of insolvencies. In the latest Insolvency Practices Inquiry report, Carnell detailed recommendations to help businesses get the best possible outcomes during times of financial trouble. ...

Chief economist update: China recovery would have been good for Oz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... it not for the heating tension between Canberra and Beijing - first, as a result of Prime Minister Scott Morrison's inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 in mid-May; and second, in response to the passage of the security law in Hong Kong, Australia ...

Billionaires targeted in Twitter bitcoin scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... targeted some of their employees with access to internal systems and tools." The FBI said it has also launched a federal inquiry into the attack. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted an apology as the attack was ongoing and said his team were ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... its citizens not to tour and study in the land down under, in retaliation for the Morrison government's call for an inquiry into the beginnings of the coronavirus pandemic. To be sure, cooler heads will prevail. Scott Morrison's "inquiry" bravado ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... inconvenient it is for ordinary Australians to want their money back." He added that he thinks the Liberal government's inquiry into class actions is being driven by a business lobby and that big business doesn't want to have to worry about customers ...

ASIC lays out product intervention plans

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... ASIC's new "targeted" solving of problems through product intervention. "In recommending the power, the Financial System Inquiry identified the objective of limiting or avoiding the future need for more prescriptive regulation," Chester added. "The availability ...