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AUSIEX to acquire FIIG Securities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Wholesale trading platform AUSIEX will acquire fixed income trading business FIIG Securities by the end of June 2025. The acquisition price has not been disclosed, but Financial Standard understands it has been described as "fair value". Financial Standard ...

Federal Court hammers defunct advice firm with $11m penalty

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
Defunct advice firm Equiti Financial Services, since renamed DOD Bookkeeping, which has been placed into liquidation, has been slammed with an $11.03 million penalty for providing "cookie cutter" advice and breaching conflicted remuneration laws. Equiti ...

Private capital, active ETFs to continue shake up of financial services: Deloitte

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
Private capital, active ETFs and tokenisation are set to take the financial services sector by storm over the next three to five years, Deloitte predicts. Deloitte's 2025 Financial Services Industry Predictions report lays out six major forces that ...

Super lobbies welcome bipartisan support to fight financial abuse

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... system. SMC wrote to all parties and candidates ahead of the election seeking their formal commitments to support specific law reform so family violence perpetrators can no longer inherit their victim's super. In a formal response to SMC, the Coalition ...

LGT Crestone poaches CRO from Challenger

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
LGT Crestone Wealth Management has nabbed a top risk professional from Challenger Ltd. After seven years at Challenger in several risk and compliance roles, Karen James Lawson has stepped into the top risk role at LTG Crestone. Confirming the appointment ...

ASIC loses Block Earner case

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... this "brings closure to a long and difficult process, one that showed how hard it is to apply existing financial services law to new and fast-changing technologies like crypto." "We understand regulators are working in a tough environment. The current ...

New government must prioritise payday super: SMC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2025
... executive Misha Schubert said payday super will dramatically reduce the level of unpaid super, improve compliance with the law and make the super system fairer for workers and businesses alike. "Over the coming year, concerted effort will be needed from ...

NPP not suitable as the primary payment system for payday super

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... family home," Beeson said. SMEs should also review budgets and payroll structures to account for increased SG rates and tax law shifts and ensure their payroll systems can handle "more frequent" super payments, Beeson suggested.

Three AFS licensees pinged over compliance breaches

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... register financial advisers may also indicate that licensees lack adequate governance arrangements to ensure compliance with the law. ASIC noted each penalised licensee promptly registered their adviser and reported the breach after becoming aware the ...

Pendal's Blayney lands at HESTA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
HESTA has made two new senior hires including a general manager of dynamic asset allocation and a general manager of information security. Former Pendal Group's head of multi-asset Michael Blayney will take on the former role with Nick Catherall ...