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CSLR establishment is critical: FPA

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
... deliver certainty and fairness for the financial planning profession and ensure consumers can have trust in the financial system."

Review of ASIC funding model begins

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
... input into the review. The ASIC Industry Funding Model commenced in July 2017, following a recommendation of the Financial System Inquiry that the government introduce a cost recovery model for the regulator. "The IFM is intended to meet the Australian ...

APRA releases annual corporate plan

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2022
... APRA's new Corporate Plan for 2022-2023 are based on protecting the community and today ensuring the Australian financial system is prepared for tomorrow. The plan is designed to respond to rapid changes in APRA's operating environment, including ...

CHESS replacement delayed further, review underway

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2022
... we expect ASX to publish the findings of the Accenture review," he said. "It is important that the Australian financial system is served well by contemporary infrastructure that is efficient, resilient, reliable and scalable to meet existing and future ...

Wayne Byres to stand down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2022
... APRA chair and that he is pleased with what has been achieved in his time. "There is always more to do, but the financial system is stable, APRA's leadership team is strong, and the organisation and its people are well-placed to continue to manage ...

Companies' ESG efforts improve

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2022
... challenges but the report leaves us far from being discouraged. "The answer is not to give up on trying to use the financial system to bring about change. Rather the system itself must change by adopting agreed global definitions and standards, and by ...

UK regulator appoints Camille Blackburn to leadership team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
... compliance at Westpac's institutional bank and as a principal advisor to Commonwealth Treasury during the Australian Financial System Inquiry. In more recent years she was chief compliance officer at Aviva Investors and was chair of the Investment Association's ...

US Fed indicates several more half-percentage rate rises

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... extent to which economic developments warranted policy adjustments." But, in an update on the stability of the US financial system, participants judged that despite rising interest rates, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supply chain disruptions, markets ...

Superhero board signs former ASIC boss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
Former ASIC chair James Shipton has joined the board of Superhero. The trading platform, which launched in September 2020, has close to 200,000 investors and rolled out zero brokerage US share trading as well as its flagship superannuation offering. ...

NAB evades AUSTRAC fine for non-compliance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... draw on our range of regulatory tools and enforcement powers to maintain public confidence in Australia's financial system." In a statement today, NAB chief executive Ross McEwan commented on the enforceable undertaking, stating: "We take our AML/CTF ...