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CSLR chief executive named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2023
... Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) board as well as that of Super Consumers Australia, Financial Counselling Australia, and the Ecstra Foundation. In her executive career, she held senior roles with the ACCC and ASIC. It is a requirement ...

A sensible roadmap: Industry responds to QAR paper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2022
... protections back 15 years. It's as if the Banking Royal Commission has already been forgotten." Financial Counselling Australia also criticised the recommendation, saying that so long as asset-based fees remain, there is real potential for conflicts ...

Stop abusers hiding super: AIST

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... with Women's Legal Service Victoria (WLSV), Women in Super, Economic Abuse Reference Group, Financial Counselling Australia and HESTA. The proposed package of changes would allow the ATO to share information about superannuation assets directly with ...

ABA moves to protect vulnerable customers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... guidelines which raise the bar in the support vulnerable customers can expect from their banks." Financial Counselling Australia chief executive Fiona Guthrie said the consultation has the potential to lift the bar on how banks support vulnerable customers. ...

Treasury initiates review post RC

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... observations about client experiences as well as the RFCS' relationships with banks," Treasury said. Financial Counselling Australia chief executive Fiona Guthrie said [in a statement issued by Treasury]: "FCA and financial counsellors are delighted ...

CBA fires up over Dollarmites criticism

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... these payments generally go towards school sporting equipment or books in the school library." Financial Counselling Australia chief executive Fiona Guthrie said the bank should sponsor brand-free financial literacy initiatives. "Schools need assistance ...

HESTA calls for access to super for family violence victims

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... access to their superannuation. The fund, along with others in the community sector including Financial Counselling Australia, is proposing that victims and survivors of family violence be able to access up to $10,000 of their super under compassionate ...

CBA backs financial counselling

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... Commonwealth Bank is committed to helping stamp out economic abuse in Australia, partnering with Financial Counselling Australia to better equip financial counsellors aiding those impacted by domestic and family violence. CBA has pledged $400,000 to ...

FOS and CIO should merge: report

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... the Credit and Investments Ombudsman would be better off as a single entity, according to a new Financial Counselling Australia report. The report, based on a survey of FCA members, found that 75% of financial counsellors were in support of a FOS and ...

CBA looks for plaintiffs to assist in remediation process

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... Guthrie as a consultant expert advisor to the panel. Currently she is the executive director of Financial Counselling Australia (FCA) and a member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Consumer Consultative Committee (ACCCCCC). Advisory ...
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