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Labor renews calls for banking Royal Commission

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
Senate Economics References Committee chairman Chris Ketter has justified Labor's calls for a Royal Commission into the banking and financial services sector, citing a flood of angry consumer complaints. In a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Consumer ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... promised reflationary policies would encounter the same fate - or at the very least, watered down by the Congress and/or the Senate. We can discuss the why's and why not's for each and every Trump-promised policy's approval but the fact remains that ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... We learned a lot about the vote-getting process. We learned a lot about some very arcane rules in, obviously, both the Senate and in the House. So it's been - certainly for me, it's been a very interesting experience. But in the end, I think it's going ...

Crowdfunding legislation gets greenlight

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... access to alternate sources of capital - an opportunity many have been waiting for, according to FinTech Australia. The Senate passed the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-Sourced Funding) Bill 2016, which allows small-scale businesses "to raise funds from ...

ATO payroll system tracking unpaid super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
... according to a joint report submitted by Cbus and Industry Super Australia at the superannuation guarantee non-payment Senate inquiry, which wrapped up on Tuesday. Cbus urged the Federal Government to align workers' superannuation the same time wages ...

Wages and super should be aligned: Cbus

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... superannuation is to try and prevent it happening in the first place," Cbus chair Steve Bracks said in his submission to the Senate inquiry into unpaid superannuation. "Paying superannuation at the same time as wages is a key part of the answer." Cbus ...

Doubting the benefit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... structure of China's government is different from that of the "west" - government plans need the approval of Congress or the Senate or both. The National People's Congress (NPC) merely rubber-stamps the Politburo's plans or heads will roll. Other PM ...

No other way but up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAR 2017
... economic conditions "continue to evolve" in line with Fed expectations as Yellen explained in her testimony before the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. One that's also mentioned in the February monetary policy statement ...

Equitise launches group investment platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... he said. Crowdfunding legislation introduced by the Treasurer Scott Morrison late last year is expected to pass in the Senate later this month. The bill recognises "crowd-sourced funding" as an emerging form of funding that allows entrepreneurs to raise ...

First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... concludes its two-day meeting on the 15th of March. Fed Chair Janet Yellen hinted as much when she testified before the Senate Banking Committee (14 Feb) and the House Financial Services Committee (15 Feb) and which she re-emphasised in her speech before ...