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The regulatory pendulum has swung too far: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2025
... that employ them, who are being saddled with higher regulatory levies to fund it. It's in the interests of the government, ASIC, and consumer groups, as well as the industry, for the CSLR to be sustainable. Clearly that is not the case," Briggs said. ...

Victorian SMSF auditor fails to overturn disqualification

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditor will remain disqualified after he failed to overturn ASIC's initial verdict. ASIC originally disqualified Nazrul Islam, of Clayton South in Victoria, from being an approved SMSF auditor in February ...

ASIC calls out super trustees over 'weak' anti-scam practices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... the member rather than looking for flags to indicate that the member may have been tricked," Constant said. In addition, ASIC said trustees did not have sufficient oversight of their external administrators' anti-scam and anti-fraud practices. "In ...

Binance Labs becomes a family office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... violating US money laundering laws. He also stepped down as chief executive of Binance and paid a massive fine. Locally, ASIC is taking Binance Australia to court alleging it denied more than 500 retail clients important consumer protections by misclassifying ...

Super failures, greenwashing: ASIC's key issues in 2025

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... cyber risk, are all key factors influencing the way ASIC views the issues facing Australia's financial system," it said. ASIC said it was focused on the changing dynamic between public and private markets, and superannuation members being let down by ...

mFunds sparked ASX outage, $1m credit issued

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... root cause, working in parallel to validate the workaround process. Trades settled the following Monday without any issues. ASIC said it is "deeply disappointed by the incident and the impact it had on the market" and that the ASX has "underlined its ...

Government must commit to fixing CSLR: FAAA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager of policy, advocacy, and standards Phil Anderson is again calling on the government to fix the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). Th FAAA has previously highlighted three critical ...

Super admin providers face reckoning in 2025: Finura

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025
... 2025, according to Finura, as super funds potentially move this service in-house amid tighter scrutiny from the regulators. ASIC suing Cbus for poor member claims experience and the 70% decline in Link Group's (which is now MUFG Pension & Market ...

ASIC names new chief executive

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... enforcement capabilities through his experience in litigating high profile matters against Volkswagen, Coles, and Apple, ASIC said. Gregson was also instrumental in the recent ACCC digital and data transformation program. ASIC chair Joe Longo described ...

Morgans Financial crowned largest licensee

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2025
Morgans Financial has toppled AMP Financial Planning (AMP FP) to become the licensee with the largest number of financial advisers. Morgans recorded 431 active advisers at the end of 2024, while AMP FP had 426. On December 20, both AFSLs had 430 registered ...