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Diversa board backs chief executive pay rise, bonus amid First Guardian fallout

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2026
... the 2025 financial year, an increase of $77,000 from the prior corresponding period, the recent Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry heard, which attempted to make sense of why he was generously rewarded amid regulators ...

Inquiry rips into Diversa: 'All profit, no responsibility'

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2026
... the failed First Guardian Master Fund, in which members invested about $240 million. At the recent Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry, Diversa's leadership team stood its ground, claiming that the root cause ...

Macquarie board rejects KPMG as auditor

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2026
... follows continued scrutiny of KPMG Australia's audit practice, including information exposed by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. "It also follows Macquarie's formal enquiries of KPMG to consider its capacity to ...

KPMG finds new chief executive

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
... through the change ahead." He added KPMG will continue to engage openly and constructively with the Parliamentary Joint Committee and regulators. "John has the board's full support to decisively deliver the Action Plan, announced in June to address ...

Treasury looks to reform regulation on consulting firms

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2026
... up to 1000 partners, at present. "The partnership limit on law firms, for example, is 400 and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Financial Services Corporations recommended that we look at that same limit of 400. So that's one of the options that ...

ASIC cannot afford to stand still: Longo

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2026
Outgoing ASIC chair Joe Longo has used his final appearance before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services to defend the regulator's enforcement record while warning that funding constraints and rapid technological change ...

Treasury proposes options to block victim-survivors' super going to perpetrators

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2026
... other assets where courts can determine the appropriate course of action. In December 2024, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services recommended an amendment to the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 to ensure ...

ASIC told to 'end the chaos' of ASX CHESS issues

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2025
... scrutiny over the past three years, including by other committees. "Similar to our colleagues on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, the House Economics Committee asked extensive questions about ASIC's enforcement ...

Treasury responds to CHESS replacement inquiry

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
Treasury has released its response following the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services report, Competition in clearing and settlement and the ASX CHESS Replacement Project: The CHESS Replacement Project is too important ...

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... self-managed super funds (SMSFs) enables financial abuse to flourish, a parliamentary inquiry found. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services investigating the interplay between regulation and the prevalence of financial ...
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