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FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
Financial services firms stand at a pivotal juncture. Those in one camp, with their heads buried in the sand, can no longer ignore the fact that artificial intelligence (AI), particularly its sidekick generative AI (GenAI), is everywhere. The other ...

Investors want regulatory clarity on digital assets: Binance

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... to the sector, a new Binance survey found. The latest Binance Australia User Survey revealed investors consider better consumer protection, tax clarity, and bank access as the top three areas of regulatory importance to themselves. Banking remains a ...

ASIC culls red tape, sets sights on more

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... initiatives aimed at making regulation clearer, more accessible and easier to navigate, while still maintaining strong consumer protections. ASIC chair Joe Longo said the regulator had heard feedback about its guidance, its website, and its legal instruments. ...

FAAA calls for other sectors to help pay $67m CSLR bill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... financial services benefits from consumers having confidence in the system. It is thus appropriate that all contribute to consumer compensation when one sector has reached its capacity." Abood also said that deciding how to deal with the special levy ...

ASIC permanently bans convicted investment manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
... ban has been recorded on the banned and disqualified register. Under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth), ASIC may permanently ban a person from providing financial and credit services if they are ...

Societe Generale fined $3.88m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
Societe Generale (SocGen) has been fined $3.88 million by the Market Disciplinary Panel (MDP), following an ASIC investigation, for failing to prevent suspicious orders from being placed on the electricity and wheat futures market. ASIC said SocGen ...

AMP, Insignia, Bendigo products fail super performance test

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... requires reform." "The test covers just 3% of the platform market, causing distorted and misleading results, and potential consumer harm," she said. "The test risks pushing superannuation members out of investment products which are meeting investment ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
... in the light of recent news about the collapse of Shield and First Guardian, potentially involving over $1 billion in consumer losses from their super," FAAA chief executive Sarah Abood said. "This scandal makes it clear that the issues the Inquiry was ...

Trust key to client satisfaction in advice: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
Russell Investments' annual report on the value of financial advice shows ability to trust remains the core expectation when seeking advice. The 2025 Value of an Adviser Report, surveying some 700 Australian investors (advised and unadvised) and nearly ...

ESG labelling could 'destabilise' super system: RIAA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2025
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) is concerned a 'one-size-fits-all' ESG labelling regime would actually increase the risk of greenwashing. Earlier this month, the government commenced a consultation on the introduction of sustainable ...