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ASX provides clarity on CHESS replacement

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2023
Responding to suggestions made at the Parliamentary Joint Committee (Committee) on Corporations and Financial Services, the ASX has confirmed no decisions have been made in relation to the CHESS replacement. In a letter to Committee chair Senator Deborah ...

ASIC considering more action on Sterling collapse

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... Sterling Income Trust is urging ASIC to take more action in a bid to protect consumers. Speaking at the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on February 11, ASIC chair John Longo confirmed that two major recommendations ...

Class action legislation open for consultation

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2021
... a litigation funder. If the legislation progresses, it will implement key recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services in its report on litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry ...

Adviser overwhelm explained

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... issues in Commonwealth Financial Planning. The same year saw the Financial System Inquiry and the parliamentary joint committee proposal to lift professional standards. In 2015, there was the Trowbridge inquiry into life insurance, before the process ...

Updated life code released

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2021
... feedback from the first draft's consultation. The FSC has also taken into account feedback from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry into the life insurance industry, ASIC reviews, Productivity Commission reports ...

Class action consultation opens

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... the government is consulting on the recommendations for litigation funding and class actions. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Report Litigation funding and the regulation of the class action industry, which was ...

Chester eyes ASIC chair role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... over from James Shipton who will step down as soon as the right candidate is announced. A Senate Parliamentary Joint Committee this morning heard that Chester "tossed her hat in the ring", expressing interest in chairing ASIC after she was asked by Senator ...

Shipton's tax bill under scrutiny

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... regards to the remuneration of ASIC chair James Shipton and former deputy chair Daniel Crennan. At the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services, chair of the committee Senator James Paterson asked auditor general Grant Hehir ...

Audit inquiry overlooks vertical integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... recommendations on how the quality of audits in Australia can be improved. Some of the issues the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services delved into included looking at potential conflicts of interests that arise in providing ...

Maurice Blackburn slams FSC

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... minister Jane Hume, despite the proposal being rejected by a parliamentary committee in 2018. "The Parliamentary Joint Committee made a series of sensible findings and recommendations which would ensure that consumers were protected from potential insurer ...