Australian regulators weekly wrap — Monday, 29 May 2023
28/05/2023
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This week’s blog covers BNPL reform, AFCA’s systemic issues report and APRA’s statistics.
Australian regulators weekly wrap — Monday, 22 May 2023
20/05/2023
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This week’s blog covers Binance’s debanking, fines levied on AMP for charging deceased customers and an excellent speech by APRA on governance.
Australian regulators weekly wrap — Monday, 15 May 2023
13/05/2023
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This week’s post covers more UCT action, ASIC’s focus on credit / debt providers and a great essay on AI regulation by Lord Sales.
Australian regulators weekly wrap — Monday, 8 May 2023
08/05/2023
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This week’s blog covers ASIC’s DDO report, an important life insurance case and reporting of IDR data to ASIC
Australian Regulators Weekly Wrap – 30 May 2022
29/05/2022
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Federal ICAC (Election): the election is over, and the red team has formed a majority Government. Importantly, the main election promise Labor has made on integrity is to establish what it says will be a “powerful, transparent and independent National Anti-Corruption Commission.”…
Australian Regulators Weekly Wrap – 23 May 2022
21/05/2022
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Prudential Perspectives (APRA): Chair Wayne Byres has identified digital disruption, and the emergence of higher inflation and rising interest rates as key impacts affecting the banking industry in a speech to FINSIA. He also identified that common theme that increasingly pervades all three sectors of the industry…
Australian Regulators Weekly Wrap – 2 May 2022
01/05/2022
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Breach Reporting (Research): Independent research commissioned by Gadens and Lawcadia on the enhanced AFSL/ACL breach reporting regime has been released this week. In summary, this research reveals: a marked increased in breach reporting for AFSL and ACL holders; a suggestion…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 31 May 2021
29/05/2021
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Regulatory performance (ASIC):the Regulator Performance Framework provides a set of six common KPIs for Australian Government regulators, and ASIC has just released itsself-assessmentof its performance against the KPIs in 201920. It felt it largely met its goals, for e.g. not unnecessarily impeding the efficient operation…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 23 May 2021
22/05/2021
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Financial institutions levy:financial industry levies recover the operational costs of APRA and other specific costs incurred by certain Commonwealth agencies, including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Taxation Office, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 10 May 2021
09/05/2021
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Proxy advice (Treasury):proxy advice assists institutional shareholders e.g. super funds to make decisions on how to vote on matters put to shareholders for approval at company meetings. Proxy advisers thus have a large role to play in corporate governance in Australia and give our historically high degree of institutional…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 3 May 2021
02/05/2021
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Breach reporting (ASIC):ASIC has issuedConsultation Paper 340, seeking stakeholder feedback on proposed updates to its draft guidance on upcoming breach reporting reforms. ASIC seeks public comment on the draft guidance and information sheet by 3 June 2021. The consultation paper follows the Treasury consultation…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 25 May 2020
24/05/2020
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Litigation Funders (Legislation):The Federal Treasurer has announced that litigation funders will within 3 months be required to hold an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL), which will dramatically increase the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) regulatory oversight of them…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 18 May 2020
17/05/2020
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Class Action Inquiry (Parliament):following the ALRC and VLRC reports into class actions, on 12 May 2020 the Federal Attorney General referred to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services for inquiry and report by 7 December 2020 the question as toWhether the present level of regulation…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 11 May 2020
10/05/2020
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Royal Commission Reforms (Treasury):huge news??and long sought and lobbied for??the Morrison Governmenthas announceda six month deferral to the implementation of commitments associated with the Hayne Royal Commission as a result of the significant impacts of the coronavirus. Under the updated timetable…
Australian regulators weekly wrap Monday 4 May 2020
03/05/2020
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Modern Slavery (Legislation):I wrote last week about an underwhelming update from the Australian Border Force, specific to the fact that it did not address any revision of the timing of Modern Slavery reports. In the wake of broader comment, this week the Australian Government has extended the deadline for entities…
