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UK regulator appoints Camille Blackburn to leadership team

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2022
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is bolstering its leadership team with six new appointments, including former ASIC and Westpac senior executive Camille Blackburn as director of wholesale buy-side. Blackburn will join the FCA in October from Legal ...

Life Code update expands consumer protections

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2022
... limits on surveillance. The updated Code follows consultation with industry, consumer groups and regulators, the Financial Services Council said. It is effective 1 July 2023, providing insurance with 12 months to make necessary changes to their processes ...

MSC Group launches Singaporean fund service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
... group appointed Angela Wong, Foo Cheong Tong and Honey Yee at director/senior executive level. An accomplished financial services lawyer, Wong has been at the forefront of evolution of Singaporean law applicable to funds and other capital structures. ...

AFCA adopts user pays funding model

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2022
... pays' model, the Australian Financial Complaints Authority's new funding model will see the vast majority of financial services firms pay the same or less than they have previously. The new funding model follows extensive consultation with industry and ...

Rate rise exposes adviser knowledge gap

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
... have 15 or more years of experience. Fortress Family Office managing partner Dion Guagliardo began working in financial services a decade after the 1987 crash. As markets rose, his more seasoned colleagues would lament the fact that the younger generation ...

ASIC takes Federal Court action against Macquarie Bank

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2022
... breached its obligations as a financial service provider. The watchdog alleged Macquarie didn't ensure its financial services efficiently, honestly and fairly, and that the company made false or misleading representations of cash management promotions. ...

Westpac now an open book on pay

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... persistent gender pay gap. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Authority, the full-time gender pay gap in financial services in Australia is 26.9% while the gap for part-time workers is around 29.5%. On International Women's Day this year, the ...

GAM loses insto mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022
... enhanced offering," head of GAM Fund Management Services Sean O'Driscoll said. In a separate matter, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority released details of the $16 million fine it handed GAM in December 2021 for failing to adequately manage ...

AFCA consults on funding

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
The Australian Financial Complaints Authority is consulting with financial firms on a new user-pays funding model. Under the proposed model AFCA estimates that 90% of its members would see a positive or neutral impact on total cost and one in five members ...

CSLR will not fully protect investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2022
... bill, with input from industry stakeholders, who largely voiced concerns that the scheme should expand to all financial services. The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA), along with 14 other industry bodies, continue to push for expanding ...