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Financial System Inquiry recommendations wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... respect of staffing and funding, and require them to undertake periodic capability reviews. Strengthening the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's funding and powers: Introduce an industry funding model for the Australian Securities and ...

Medcraft furious over "absolutely appalling" advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said that despite the regulators' efforts, he still had no confidence in the financial advice industry. Speaking at the National Press Club yesterday, Medcraft said the regulator's ...

Senate grills ASIC after it blocks 250,000 websites

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will face a Senate grilling after blocking a quarter of a million websites when it was seeking to prevent access to sites associated with investment fraud. A public hearing by the Senate Communications ...

Brisbane adviser pleads guilty to $9 million fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... financial services for eight years, but under the enforceable undertaking (EU) that he has entered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) he will be able to manage a company again in 18 months.

ASIC stands up for adviser national exam

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
Advisers in Australia should undertake a national examination to lift industry standards, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft has told a parliamentary committee "The industry needs to get its house in order ...

AMP, Vanguard and ASIC join forces to simplify disclosure

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
AMP and Vanguard are taking part in an Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) initiative to produce simpler financial product guides. ASIC may also work with other product providers in the future and is expecting to release preliminary results ...

APRA's IT infrastructure strains

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... dissemination models built around PDFs and Excel files. APRA's information technology difficulties come just as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lobbies the government to be included as a recognised agency as part of its data ...

ASIC calls for standard cyber risk measure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... is a need to establish an international methodology to measure the businesses' vulnerability to the risk, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman Greg Medcraft said. "Cyber-crime around the world is growing and will continue ...

Adviser jailed for two years over $1.5M fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... years for stealing almost $1.5 million worth of shares. Michael King was made eligible for parole, but the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner John Price said that "jail sentence shows that the court views misconduct ...

Advisers confronted with harsh reality of whistleblowing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... Morris blew the whistle on several cases of adviser malpractice within Commonwealth Bank, initially to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and later to the media, when he realised that the regulator was not acting on his and other ...