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Global X snaps up executive from AMP's North platform

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... addition to eight years providing wealth advice as a financial planner. Global X noted his extensive experience in financial services, relationship management and strategic execution. "Knight brings a core strength in developing culture, leading within ...

Advice bodies want efficiency, long-term solutions from Mulino

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... Australia's top advice associations are eagerly anticipating meaningful and swift changes to take place under new financial services minister Daniel Mulino, optimistic that critical reforms in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) and Delivering ...

Macquarie raked over the coals again by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... 2022 and March 2023. ASIC chair Joe Longo claimed that Macquarie's alleged blunders possibly led to the financial services industry "relying on misleading and false information" for over a decade. Macquarie stands accused by ASIC of misreporting ...

Criminal attacks, human error drive data breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) rose 25% in 2024; 54 or 9% of which occurred at financial services organisations. New statistics from the OAIC show there was a total of 1113 notifications received about data breaches in the ...

Daniel Mulino takes over financial services portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
Daniel Mulino is the new minister for financial services and assistant treasurer. Mulino was named in the position by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese yesterday. He brings a great deal of relevant experience to the portfolio. With an extensive background ...

NZ Super appoints inaugural chief operating officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... executive between December 2023 and April 2024. Before joining the Guardians, Steed had a 25-year career in financial services and banking, including various executive and general management roles with AMP, ANZ and ASB Bank. NZ Super chief executive ...

Reducing super tax cap to $2m 'a concern': FAAA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2025
... gains to be paid. So, we do have some concerns." In addition, as the industry awaits who will be named the new financial services minister, the FAAA said it intends to hand over a long list of "critical" advice reforms. "As soon as we know who that minister ...

Australia tops list for financial services job growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
Australia recorded a significant upswing in professional job vacancies, led by the financial services sector in March, according to the Robert Walters Global Jobs Index. The research found that professional white-collar vacancies in financial services ...

ASIC cancels licence of Brite Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Brite Advisors after the now-defunct investment and pension firm failed to compensate a client, triggering a payout under the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). The regulator cancelled ...

ASIC streamlines AFSL applications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
The regulator launched a new digital portal for Australian financial services licence (AFSL) applications. From today, those wishing to gain an AFSL can use ASIC's new portal, integrated with the ASIC Regulatory Portal. It has a new interface and method ...