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Trio chair ban and Richard jailed

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... additional 15 month good behaviour bond. Additionally, over the past five weeks the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority accepted EU's from former Trio directors Rex Phillpott and Natasha Beck.

Hidden threat may lurk on bank balance sheets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... endless consecutive rises enjoyed before the global financial crisis. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's (APRA) monthly banking statistics for May, the Big Four banks had $262.7 billion in investment housing loans on their ...

Medicare to handle compassionate super payouts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
The government has relieved the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) of its duties to administer the early release of superannuation on compassionate grounds, handing the responsibility to Medicare. Only around $1.5 million of super savings ...

Trio director offers EU to APRA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... acknowledge her part in the firm's collapse and offered an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), which it has accepted. Faced with a possible disqualification for five years from any role as trustee, responsible ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... concerns on how a fund is managed, to report them to the relevant authorities such as Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.

Masters of Financial Regulation on offer for first time

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... interested in this program," Jameson said. Jeffrey Carmichael, the former head of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, is now chief executive of Promontory Financial Group Australasia and will be leading the project. Jameson said the course ...

Bank profits exceed 25 per cent

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... cent with the big four earning more than 80 per cent of total interest income, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said in its Quarterly Bank Performance Statistics report today. The big four banks earned $45.8 billion in interest, or 84.3 ...

Budget 2011: "Benign" Budget a relief for finance sector

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Budget has also allocated nearly $80 million to regulators including the tax office, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and corporate watchdog ASIC to implement aspects of the Stronger Super reforms. The reforms include a new administrative ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has clarified its definition of liquid assets that the banking industry must hold from 2015. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) ...

APRA report sparks fresh debate on boardroom diversity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... report released yesterday that shows the glaring absence of women on trustee boards. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) released findings that found licensed trustees on average have less than 20 per cent of women on their boards ...