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AI ramping up but legal risks remain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... sufficient understanding of technologies and the impact they have on the sector currently. Nearly 60% believed that existing regulation wasn't sufficient to tackle issues stemming from AI. Baker McKenzie head of TMT for Asia Pacific Adrian Lawrence ...

Aussie funds among the world's largest asset owners

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... not to shirk the big issues," he said. "These include the need to develop stronger leadership, respond effectively to regulation, manage agency issues and improve control over outcomes." Globally, pension funds were the biggest asset owners, taking up ...

Westpac admits it didn't take FoFA seriously

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... $46 million higher than Westpac's previous estimate provided at September end. The bank spent over $1.1 billion on regulation and compliance this year, significantly more than what it wrote off in credit provisions. Less praise, more complaints Westpac ...

Macquarie reshuffles asset management lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... extensive investment banking industry knowledge and markets expertise, including her deep knowledge of risk management and regulation in these areas. She also has considerable executive management and listed company board experience." Broadbent will ...

Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... is also required. Twenty other Australian regulators rely on EUs. Leading the study, UNSW Centre for Law Markets and Regulation director Dimity Kingsford-Smith said the researchers did not anticipate that a majority of organisations would report that ...

Digital custody evolutionary, not revolutionary: SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... CSD is at the core of the financial sector, and still managing the single source of truth for the entire community. Regulation is still differentiating between different roles," he said. Roncone said if a DLT model were to succeed in custody, it would ...

Life insurer early intervention reforms dumped

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
Life insurance reforms proposed to provide better rehabilitation and early intervention treatment have been scrapped by the Federal Government. In response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services' report released ...

Chatbots will move from consumer finance to corporate: BAML

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... mobile in our business clients," Boussuge said. She counted mobile developments as her top pick alongside security, regulation, data analytics and low value but high volume transfers. Earlier in the session, Boussuge gave an example of such a move with ...

Afterpay faces senate inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
The Labor party will launch a senate inquiry into whether regulation around payday lenders such as Afterpay is adequately protecting low and middle income, and financially stressed Australians. Labor senator Jenny McAllister said yesterday that the ...

FPA appoints new chair, director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
The Financial Planning Association has chosen a board member to chair its board. Marisa Broome will move into the role when current chair Neil Kendall's term concludes in November. She has worked in the financial services industry for over three decades ...