A summary of regulatory requirements for statements of advice
As noted in our previous article, a statement of advice is the main document that records advice provided to retail ...
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An introduction to Financial Product Advice
Financial advice is regulated under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) as financial product advice. The provision of financial product advice ...
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A deeper look at the AFS licence application process
As we noted in our previous article there are five parts to form FS01. Below we describe these in more ...
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Steps to obtain an AFS Licence
Regulatory guides are published by ASIC to give guidance to regulated entities by explaining when and how ASIC will exercise ...
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Webinar – Two New Codes for Banking and Lending
In our recent webinar focusing on the finance industry, regulatory specialist Dr Drew Donnelly consider two new codes for banking ...
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Webinar – The Compliance HUB – A Guide
In this webinar, Compliance Quarter founder Connor James provides an in-depth guide to the Compliance HUB software and its features ...
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Unfair Contract Terms
In March 2018, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) published REP 565 (found here: https://asic.gov.au/regulatory-resources/find-a-document/reports/rep-565-unfair-contract-terms-and-small-business-loans/), which outlines changes to ...
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New ASIC Guidance for the Fund Management Industry – Push on Compliance
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has just released a batch of guidance for fund management in Australia.[1] In ...
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How do I work out my compliance spend?
In the just released final report of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) retail electricity pricing inquiry[1], energy retailers ...
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Consumer data right – speech by Rod Sims Chairman of the ACCC
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair Rod Sims has delivered a speech to the National Consumer Data Policy ...
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Power Purchase Agreements – PPAs – new compliance challenges webinar
Solar Power Purchase Agreements are on the rise in Australia. Solar PPAs are regulated primarily through AER's (and in Victoria, ...
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What is the new Financial Benchmark Regime?
On 12 June the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) announced the final regulatory regime for Financial Benchmarks. This regime, ...
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Should Australia follow Argentina and introduce a National Regime for Distributed Generation?
One year ago, I arrived in Buenos Aires for the first time. Heading to a salsa club in the fashionable ...
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Fintech and Regtech Developments – March, April, May 2018
We last summarised regulatory changes for financial and regulatory technology (fintech and regtech) in February.[1] Since then there have been ...
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GDPR: The Legitimate Interests test
On 25 May the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. If you need help in working out ...
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