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ASIC bans Commonwealth Financial Planning employee

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
ASIC has banned Commonwealth Financial Planning employee Rebecca Locksley from providing financial services for 18 months, after finding she created false documents for client files. Locksley of Merewether, New South Wales, was the servicing planner ...

FSI submissions close

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
Public submissions on the federal government's Financial System Inquiry Final Report close today. Provided about four months to comment, it is expected all financial service sectors will contribute their thoughts on the government's 44 recommendations ...

2015: a lift year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
Pencil it in, carve it on concrete... 2015 will be the year that the US Federal Reserve lifts its federal funds rate target for the first time since bringing it down to 0-0.25% -- and nailing it there -- a long, long time ago (16 December 2008). Only ...

Trowbridge releases final report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2015
The final version of the Trowbridge Review on Retail Life Insurance Advice has been released. Initiated by the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), it was designed as an independent review following the Australian ...

DeVere helped US press expose investment fraud

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
Global adviser group deVere provided evidence of what a spokesperson described as "one of the largest financial scams in history" to a US-based investigative news service. DeVere, which has recently been expanding its Australian operations, worked with ...

Labor backs ASIC data retention authority

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus voiced his support for amendments to the Government's data retention bill which authorise the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to retain telecommunications data for the purposes of investigating ...

Australia missing out on $34.5bn tech opportunity

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Australian businesses are underperforming in use of digital technologies and could be missing out on a $34.5 billion opportunity, according to Accenture research. Australia ranks eight out of the 17 leading economies measured on the Accenture Digital ...

Abuse of reporting rules widespread: Medcraft

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has highlighted companies "abuse" of breach reporting rules. The head of the industry watchdog made the comments in front of a Senate public hearing in Sydney on Friday following ...

APRA shakes up executive team, addresses super conflicts

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
APRA has made multiple changes to its senior executive team. Steve Matthews has been appointed executive general manager, corporate services, having been APRA's chief financial officer since 2010. Brandon Khoo replaces Keith Chapman as executive general ...

Former Gold Coast adviser sentenced

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
A former Gold Coast financial adviser has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for false and misleading statements and providing advice without a reasonable basis. Ian John Weaver, working at Enhance Capital and The Salisbury Group during the time ...