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AFCA membership deadline arrives

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
Financial services firms have until close of business today to register for membership of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. ASIC has issued a warning to all Australian financial services licensees, superannuation trustees and authorised ...

Fees for no service remediation passes $250 million

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
Financial institutions outside the big four banks and AMP have been integrated into ASIC's fees for no service remediation programs, with total provisions likely to exceed $850 million. Updating the financial services industry and consumers on its oversight ...

Advice fintech reshuffles leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
The managing director of an ASX-listed financial advice fintech is stepping aside and an interim chief executive has been appointed. Intiger announced managing director Mark Fisher will hand over leadership of the software developer to global head of ...

Advice fintech shutters Sydney office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
As part of a strategic review, an ASX-listed Australian fintech targeting the financial advice market will close its Sydney office and reduce three sales and customer service staff. Intiger said the decision came about because the review "reaffirmed ...

Acorns rebrands, issues prospectus

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... by RAIZ Invest, appointed RAIZ Invest Australia as an authorised representative under its Australian Financial Services License. Since launching in 2016 in Australia, Raiz has amassed 440,000 signups and about 155,000 active monthly customers and $170 ...

ASIC cancels AFSL, accepts EU

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from a Queensland financial planning business and cancelled its AFSL. The EU also means Breakaway Finance Group's sole director Mark Roberts will remove himself from the industry for at least two years. Following ...

ASIC needs tougher, direct powers: Taskforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
ASIC should be given tougher intervention powers to direct how an Australian financial services licensee addresses or prevents compliance failures. The latest report from the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce highlights several shortcomings the corporate ...

Small licensees are PI insurance compliant: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
The majority of small Australian financial services licensees are meeting professional indemnity (PI) insurance obligations, according to an ASIC investigation. ASIC's review included 56 small AFS licensees with 20 or less authorised representatives ...

ASIC flags stronger adviser surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
About $618.8 million was paid in compensating and remediating corporate misconduct in the six months to June - almost a fourfold increase on the second half of 2016. During the period, ASIC removed 23 individuals from working in financial service; commenced ...

Advice licensees hit with $1500 levy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 17 JUL 2017
ASIC has introduced a $1500 fixed levy on authorised financial advice licensees to cover the price tag of its costs recovery framework. The graduated levy for licensees comes off the back of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Bill, a law which ...