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Data sharing laws updated in response to Optus breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2022
... incidents. Entities that wish to receive the data must provide written commitments to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission that they will obey all their obligations under the legislation and, once no longer needed, destroy all the information. ...

ACCC approves Dye & Durham, Link deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will not oppose Dye & Durham's acquisition of Link Group, provided Dye & Durham divests its existing Australian businesses. Dye & Durham offers information broking services, conveyancing and legal practice ...

Super wars not over: Swan

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... valley of terror that super funds are entering is not regulatory or political, but competitive. "I think that the competition is not primarily of industry super funds, retail funds, or other funds, as I think we're now officially "frenemies"," she ...

Spirit Super consortium withdraws from port acquisition

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2022
... from the ACCC. The ACCC recently informed the Spirit Super Palisade Consortium that it continued to hold preliminary competition concerns needing more time to investigate and the Consortium subsequently decided to not proceed with the transaction. Earlier ...

A sensible roadmap: Industry responds to QAR paper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... banks and super funds to use their data to flog products to existing customers. This will have a serious impact on competition in the banking sector at a time when, with rising interest rates and cost of living pressures, people need to be able to find ...

Crypto asset reforms underway: Treasurer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, minister for financial services Stephen Jones and minister for competition, charities and treasury Andrew Leigh have announced that work is underway on crypto asset reforms. "The Albanese government will improve the way Australia's ...

Competition for adviser relationships fierce: Report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2022
In a hotly contested platform space, competition for adviser relationships is fierce, according to part two of Investment Trends' latest Adviser Technology Needs Report. The report found the percentage of new inflows by advisers through platforms decreased ...

GQG Partners net revenue jumps 21.3%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... alongside Jain. An issued statement said: "We continue to offer what we believe are very attractive fees relative to our competition. Our weighted average management fee for the six months ended June 30 was 47.6bps, lower than 49.6bps for the first half ...

Macquarie Asset Management buys Veolia waste business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... UK Group. Veolia has been selling off parts of Suez recently in response to anti-trust concerns raised by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The CMA still retains the right to reject the acquisition. Macquarie's purchase price of 16.9 ...

Reserve Bank explores digital currency potential

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... a digital USD might be necessary just to maintain the global dominance of the dollar in the face of international competition; this reality could fast-track the development of a digital currency, already set in motion by the arrival of cryptocurrenci ...