Regulation

Dec 15 2015

A new report from the corporate watchdog has found that gaps exist in the market for professional indemnity insurance for financial advisers between what ASIC expects and some of the ...

Dec 14 2015

In its Outlook Report, the Deloitte Asia Pacific Centre for Regulatory Strategy predicts that regulatory trends in 2016 will, as in the past few years, be largely driven by international ...

Nov 30 2015

APRA has welcomed the Treasurer Scott Morrison’s appointments of a new deputy chair and member for the prudential regulator.

Nov 27 2015

The prudential regulator has revealed its plan to revise the prudential requirements by establishing a simplified framework.

Nov 25 2015

As ASIC prepares a further investigation into interest-only loans, new APRA figures reveal an increase in the number of new interest-only loans written over the year to September.

Nov 18 2015

A leading economist has questioned APRA’s investor lending crackdown in light of the Reserve Bank’s recent shock over a $50 billion home loan error.

Nov 18 2015

Risk modelling may have gone from the “penthouse to the doghouse” in the wake of the global financial crisis, but APRA chairman Wayne Byres continues to support the practice.

Nov 16 2015

ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has advocated a two-tier regulatory system that encourages innovation via ‘light-touch’ oversight of fintech start-ups.

Nov 13 2015

APRA chairman Wayne Byres has questioned the direction of post-GFC reforms and suggested that supervision can be more effective and cheaper than more regulation.