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AFCA appoints lead ombudsman, investments and advice

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... then trained and worked as a financial planner before becoming a case manager with an AFCA predecessor, the Financial Ombudsman Scheme, in 2010. AFCA deputy chief ombudsman June Smith said Singh brings deep and diverse experience to this role, having ...

AFCA must improve transparency: Hume

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2021
... from the review to further inform this work," he said. This November marks AFCA's three-year anniversary. The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Credit and Investments Ombudsman (CIO) and the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) merged to form ...

Bitcoin fund hires from IFM

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
... as head of fund and mandate compliance. Henningsen has also worked at Bell Asset Management, the Australian Financial Ombudsman Service and Australian Unity. He has experience in the world of cryptocurrency too, having been general counsel for Huobi ...

AFCA welcomes new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... is the authority's inaugural chair, appointed in April 2018 with the task of overseeing the merger of the Financial Ombudsman Service, Credit and Investment Ombudsman, and Superannuation Complaints Tribunal into one governing body, now known as AFCA. ...

Count Financial bolsters leadership team

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... Professional Conduct Committee, was a member of the Financial Planning Advisory Committee to the board of the Financial Ombudsman service, and also served as the governor and secretary of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Countplus sold its financial ...

AFCA looks to expand senior ranks

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
... Established in November 2018, the authority replaced three pre-existing external dispute resolution schemes: the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Credit and Investments Ombudsman, and the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. As of June, AFCA has helped ...

AFCA delivers $83 million win

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... AFCA membership and therefore may be in breach of their licence applications. Those previous schemes were the Financial Ombudsman Service, Credit and Investments Ombudsman and Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. ASIC intervened with these potentially ...

ASIC approves AFCA rules change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... jurisdiction of the current AFCA scheme. "However, there will also be many matters that were never lodged with the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Credit and Investments Ombudsman or the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal that may now be brought to ...

New AFCA remit not enough: Law firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... started operating in November last year, taking over the external dispute resolution previously handled by the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Credit and Investments Ombudsman and Superannuation Complaints Tribunal.

FASEA welcomes new directors

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... inception, and was appointed to the board after spending four years as a director of its predecessor, the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Previously, Freeman spent more than a year as a director of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...
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