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Regulatory inadequacy to blame: Hayne

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... root causes within the organisations and the industry. "Those responses largely set the tone for future approaches to misconduct by financial advisers, that is, to compensate customers according to arrangements negotiated with ASIC while requiring few ...

Frydenberg slams financial sector greed

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... will get a "favourable hearing." Despite the criticisms aimed at the regulator - the people or perpetrators behind the misconduct should be front of mind, he added. These are the individuals working for the institutions who must be "held accountable ...

Banking remuneration practices to blame for misconduct

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
The industry's remuneration practices and policies played a major role in the banking misconduct uncovered by the Royal Commission Inquiry, the interim report found. Governance and risk management practices failed to prevent the misconduct where ...

Advice industry in hot water

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... into financial advice, Commissioner Kenneth Hayne has said. Releasing his interim report today, Hayne has said of the misconduct within Australia's major financial institutions exposed by the Commission: "No matter whether the motive is called 'greed' ...

Hayne admonishes ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
Commissioner Kenneth Hayne criticised ASIC's negotiation strategies and tardiness in remediating misconduct that can take years to resolve and for its inability to prevent future breaches. In his interim report Hayne disapproved of ASIC's preferred ...

Labor proposes RC implementation task force

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... recommend. She said there is a close relationship between the corporate regulator and the banking sector which causes the misconduct.

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... "simply conduct falling short of community standards, or whether, if it were established, would constitute a form of misconduct, at least in the form of breach of contract." Hayne said it pertains to section 1.3(a), which says "these terms of reference ...

Royal Commission hears industry fund admitted wrongdoing to ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... of a death benefit. Costello suggested to Commissioner Kenneth Hayne that it was open to him to find Rest engaged in misconduct by breaching sections of the SIS Act and the Corporations Act based on the breach report. Earlier, the industry fund's insurance ...

Frydenberg appoints second APRA deputy chair

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... adopted by APRA and ASIC to regulate superannuation entities were sufficient to achieve specific or general deterrence of misconduct.

ASIC takes Dover, McMaster to court

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... definitely." In taking the case to the Federal Court, ASIC has also alleged that McMaster was knowingly concerned in the misconduct and is therefore seeking declarations that both Dover and McMaster broke financial services law, as well as financial ...