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Iress partners with regtech for DDO

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... announced it is integrating Objective Corporation with its blockchain technology for its design and distribution obligations (DDO) solution. The integration will allow product issuers to publish Target Market Determinations (TMDs) created through Objective's ...

FSC proposes new advice model

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... group. The FSC is calling for a simpler advice model that is consistent with the new Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO), which requires financial product issuers to know whether their consumers fall within the target market of their products. ...

DDO to simplify general, personal advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... according to a lawyer. Speaking at a Financial Services Council (FSC) event King & Wood Mallesons partner Nathan Hodge said the DDO imposes a lot more implications for product providers and financial advisers when distributed under a general advice model ...

Morningstar releases DDO solution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... standards and templates across issuers will allow distributors to systematise their monitoring and reporting obligations under DDO." Morningstar has been gathering feedback and engaging with the industry with the goal of formulating an open source standard ...

ASIC pursues criminal charges in super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
ASIC has outlined its ongoing body of work in the superannuation space, confirming it has compiled two briefs of evidence in support of criminal charges with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and is undertaking more than 20 enforcement ...

Iress to deliver DDO solution

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... software company has announced its plans to launch a technological solution to meet the Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO), commencing 5 October 2021. ASIC's RG 274 Product design and distribution obligations aims to help consumers obtain ...

ASIC to take targeted approach with PIP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
ASIC commissioner Sean Hughes said the government's Product Intervention Powers (PIP) will allow the regulator to take a targeted, calibrated and less prescriptive approach to regulation. Speaking at the Australian Finance Industry Association Risk ...

Regulators alert trustees of new obligations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... quality outcomes for members. Rowell said she expects trustees to have progressed well in completing their first BPR. The DDO will commence on 5 October 2021 but significant preparation is needed by RSE licensees ahead of this date, Press warned. These ...

DDO top of ASIC's agenda

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
Design and distributions obligation (DDO) reforms may have been pushed back to October next year as a result of COVID-19 but ASIC said it is top of the priority list for 2021. Speaking to the annual Credit Law Conference, ASIC commissioner Sean Hughes ...

Calls for clarity on personal advice in DDO

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... channel for financial products to be directly distributed to retail clients." Personal advice definition The FSC also thinks DDO's amendment to the definition of "personal advice" does not go far enough. Under current definition of personal advice in ...