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APRA slaps additional licence conditions on HTFS Nominees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2026
... Fund. On the latest action, APRA John Lonsdale said: "Alongside enforcement action, APRA is closely supervising other in-scope platform trustees where improvement is necessary. APRA will continue to oversee the delivery of required actions and will hold ...

ASIC, APRA target insurers' TPD product sustainability

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
... episodic capacity and evolving patterns of work. "While participants highlighted legislative constraints are limiting the scope for product change, there are examples where some insurers are actively exploring and piloting new approaches within the current ...

Tokenisation could inject $24bn annually: Project Acacia

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... our financial system more dynamic and resilient through a period of intense technological disruption," Jones said. "The scope of future initiatives we are outlining today is ambitious - covering tokenised assets, money and new infrastructure arrangements ...

Removing CGT discount on all assets will make tax system fairer: Chalmers

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... average." Chalmers added standalone housing tends to have strong capital gains relative to other assets, as well as more scope for leverage, which has been a recipe for the kinds of distortion seen in recent decades. "The combination of our changes to ...

AI to outweigh inflation fears in fixed income markets: Allspring

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... short-term US interest rates under incoming Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh. While investors are currently pricing limited scope for rate cuts, Wise said he expects future monetary policy to rely less on balance sheet expansion and more on traditional ...

Adviser ban stretched to 2028 in ASIC deterrence win

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2026
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) has prohibited Stephen Rogers from being registered as a financial adviser for another three years. Melbourne-based Stephen Rogers, a representative of United Global Capital, had been prohibited from registering ...

Performance test reforms to curb benchmark hugging: Treasury

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2026
... 560 products or 62% member benefits in APRA-regulated funds. Retirement products, for example, are outside the test's scope. Expanding the test for diversified externally directed products in the accumulation phase - the majority of which are on ...

Bell Financial looks to diversify revenue, targets 'holistic' strategy

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2026
... divisions of Bell Potter, Bell Direct and Desktop Broker. Last year, BFG selected Praemium's administration solution Scope+ to administer more than 2200 client portfolios. It said it will migrate all existing portfolios on Praemium platforms and ...

M&A is not a 'scattergun' approach: AZ NGA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2026
... mass affluent segment, but increasingly, we're moving up towards high-net-worth (HNW) segment." He said the expanded scope was based on the "real opportunity" to establish a concrete network in the HNW segment as Australians are becoming wealthier. ...

APRA finalises CPS 230 amendments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2026
... notice where appropriate. Over time, as domestic and international operational resilience practices mature, APRA expects the scope of exemptions to narrow rather than expand," APRA said. "APRA will periodically review the operation of these exemptions ...
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