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New Zealand reviews life insurance commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... entities reinforced their ongoing focus on soft commissions in life insurance and incentives in vertically integrated institutions, as well as predicting a deepening of their focus on governance and culture within financial services firms.

For-profit lobbying leads to $53bn problem: AIST

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... efforts of the for-profit sector had proven fruitful. "The research points to an army of lobbyists - and the financial institutions that employ them - having been very successful in persuading governments to go light on regulation," Clarke said. "This ...

APRA grilled over superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... now would trigger APRA to investigate further?" Hodge asked. "Unfortunately, these are all too common in financial institutions," Byres said. "So I think the supervisor would certainly follow up with the institution concerned to find out more details ...

Australian philanthropist donates $100m to journalism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... intellectual life needs a shot in the arm. "Journalism doesn't just need critics, it needs champions - people and institutions with the resources to help educate, encourage and connect journalists and their audience in pursuit of excellence." The philanthropist ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... "The targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) are Eurosystem operations that provide financing to credit institutions for periods of up to four years. They offer long-term funding at attractive conditions to banks in order to further ease ...

Vertical integration not to blame

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
Australia's largest financial services institutions all agree - the use of vertically integrated business models in the wealth management arms of banks was not the reason for the industry misconduct exposed in the Royal Commission. In their responses ...

Fund manager launches HNW advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... within its subsidiary Clime Private Wealth. It also works with self-managed super funds, companies, charities and institutions. In January, Clime appointed Maria Greensill as the head of Clime Private Wealth. In announcing the appointment, Clime flagged ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... rates are more likely to go up than down - for a rate hike in 2020 (the OECD too expects the same). Not when both institutions expect GDP growth to slow by then (unless of course, it's a consequence of that "expected" rate hike) and definitely not ...

KPMG hires from Macquarie

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... including five years in London. At MIRA, she had a particular focus on managing client relationships for domestic institutions and foreign clients investing in Australia and on executing consortium equity and principal transactions. In her new role ...

AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... offerings and their use of AI-driven regtech solutions," Lawrence said. Looking inwards, only a third (38%) of financial institutions are confident they themselves understand the legal risks of the AI technologies they are adopting. Only 7% of the surveyed ...