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FCA reviews regulation of foreign financial services firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority is reassessing how it should authorise and supervise foreign firms providing financial services in the UK as the Brexit transition period ends. The FCA announced it launched the consultation process in anticipating an ...

ASIC wealth director nabs promotion

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... previous role, Bird led and managed a team of 60 people across several Australian states, responsible for all aspects of regulation of the financial advice industry in Australia. Prior to her tenure with ASIC, Bird worked as an associate professor at ...

J.P. Morgan rolls out global accounting services

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... months we've reached a point where the requirements that make Australia unique, like Australian accounting and tax regulation, have been completed and we're able to put a stake in the ground and say that this system is production ready and we can ...

Government increases fees for foreign investment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
Treasury has announced another tranche of reforms to the Foreign Investment Review (FIRB) Framework. The latest reforms amend the fee framework, increasing fees for foreign investment applications for commercial businesses, agricultural land and residential ...

APRA, ACCC sign new MoU

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission have signed an updated memorandum of understanding in a bid to increase information sharing, coordination, and cooperation between the two regulators. ...

Financial services laws under review

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
Following on from the Royal Commission, the Australian Law Reform Commission has been tasked with reviewing financial services laws with a view to simplify laws regulating the industry. As part of its response to the Royal Commission final report, the ...

Mainstream expands private equity offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... outsourced fund services from private equity, venture capital and real estate funds as a result of increasingly complex regulation, operational compliance and LP demands for better fund governance. "For most private equity managers, the cost of buying ...

AMP deed of release bars advisers joining class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
AMP is allegedly handing departing financial advisers a contract with a clause in it that prohibits them from joining the current open class action. The Advisers Association chief executive Neil Macdonald said he became aware of a new clause in AMP's ...

Technology can ease adviser red tape: Academic

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... profession will look like in five years' time with the help of digital means, which will make it possible to trim down regulation otherwise it will compound, she warned. Given that financial advice regulation is highly "overdone", Hanrahan rejected ...

HESTA takes active approach to class actions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... said it recognises that the class action industry contains a number of specialist entities and warrants oversight. "Regulation should ensure that the risk premium awarded to entities for the funding of actions is appropriate," it said. "Most importantly ...