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New ombudsman service welcomed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... Financial Services Ombudsman (BFSO), the Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) and the Insurance Ombudsman Service (IOS). The service is free to consumers. It can make decisions that are binding on participating financial services providers. Colin ...

Investors influence credit ratings

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Credit rating agencies are bowing to the pressure of investors, issuers, and underwriters to change their ratings, a new survey shows. A recent member opinion poll conducted by the CFA Institute found that 11 per cent of those surveyed witnessed a CRA ...

Financial Ombudsman Service launched

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... Industry Complaints Service (FICS), the Banking and Financial Ombudsman Service (BFSO) and the Insurance Ombudsman Service (IOS). The three schemes deal with most consumer complaints about financial services and cover the vast majority of retail financial ...

No special rules needed for PE: FSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
In a pointer to where the Senate Inquiry into private equity will most likely head, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued a statement about how it intends to regulate private equity - collect more statistics, hold yet more inquiries but ...

ASIC gives credit rating agencies a break

ASIC will give credit ratings agencies a break from the financial services licensing regime, in relation to their credit ratings on debt type instruments only. The relief will exempt Moody's Investors Service Pty Limited, Standard & Poor's (Australia) ...

Compliance in FSR advertising going to be difficult: Minter Ellison

At the Law and Finance conference yesterday, lawyer and Minter Ellison Partner, Stephen Etkind, warned that fund managers and institutional investors would have to be on their toes with their advertising standards. Etkind sent out a stern warning and ...

IRESS and Reuters to integrate order systems

... Routing network (ROR) is a global system and will give the 40 Australia and New Zealand brokers who use the IRESS Order System (IOS) access to an international network. "The integration of our networks gives all Reuters ROR clients direct access to the ...

Beware of fake international 'regulators'

ASIC has advised Australian investors wishing to place funds in overseas markets to be aware of the activities emanating from fake international regulators. These fake regulators have been known to set up bogus websites, telephone numbers and addresses ...

FPA issues member notice and calls for submissions

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has on Monday released a member update reminding all members of their obligations under the FPA soft dollar code of conduct which takes effect from 1 January 2005. Under the requirements of the FPA code, all ...
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