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Block Earner dodges massive fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... Earner is the trading name of Web3 Ventures. It was founded in 2021 by Charlie Karaboga and Jordan Momtazi and backed by Framework, Coinbase, Longhash, and Sequoia Capital. Between March and November 2022, ASIC found Block Earner provided unlicensed ...

APRA hits Mercer with additional licence conditions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2024
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has imposed additional licence conditions on Mercer Super to ensure it addresses risk management and compliance management deficiencies identified by the regulator. The risk management and compliance ...

Insignia research, retirement income head to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... equities research, and macroeconomic research. He was also responsible for developing the firm's retirement income framework and chairs its Retirement Income Working Group. Before joining Insignia, Olsen was chief executive of research house Lonsec ...

UK forewarns Australia on wholesale test changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry is considering a refresh of the entire wholesale investor test framework. According to the terms of reference, the government will look at any proposals to change the tests, potential intended ...

Spaceship appoints new chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2024
... APRA as a superannuation specialist. At Spaceship, Beydoun is responsible for overseeing the company's risk management framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and enhancing its risk management capabilities. Spaceship said his appointment ...

Calls for a simplified path to financial advice

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
... maintain the importance of a university degree and the proposals support that, she said. "The current qualification framework works really well for a number of participants. We want to ensure that the current degrees and providers continue to offer those ...

Industry reacts to Federal Budget

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down the Federal Budget last night, delivering its second consecutive surplus as well as a raft of measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis. Despite many of the measures presented in the Budget having been announced prior ...

Budget 2024: Change to foreign investment rules

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... the transaction. This comes after the Albanese government announced plans to reform and renew the foreign investment framework earlier this month. Chalmers said the government was taking action to strengthen the regime where it needs to, streamline processes ...

Budget 2024: Regulators given boost to combat misconduct, cybersecurity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... invested over four years and $1.2 million each year ongoing for Treasury, ASIC and APRA to deliver the sustainable finance framework, including issuing green bonds, improving data and engaging in the development of international regulatory regimes related ...

Wholesale investor test reform has several ramifications: SIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... not changed since 2002 and have not kept up with the times. Last August, Treasury conducted a review of the regulatory framework for managed investment schemes (MIS). This included reviewing thresholds for the high-net-worths and product-value classification ...