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Government and ASIC announcements for FinTech sector
There were three announcements this week that will serve to bolster the emerging Australian FinTech sector The Government released a statement in support of FinTech as part of its National Innovation and Science Agenda while ASIC issued two sets of guidance an information sheet for providers of ...
Full Federal Court blocks US depositions for Australian class action
The Full Federal Court has ordered an anti-suit injunction against the applicant and a group member in the Treasury Wine Estates shareholder class action preventing the taking of oral depositions from US-based employees under US court procedures Partner Duncan Travis and Associate Michela Agnoletti ...
Defining the objective of superannuation
The Government released a discussion paper on the Objective of Superannuation today The paper says that the Government will enshrine in legislation the primary objective recommended by the Financial System Inquiry being To provide income in retirement to substitute or supplement the Age Pension ...
Life insurance remuneration draft regulations released
The Government has released an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements Regulations 2016 The draft regulations provide some further detail to support the implementation of the Corporations Amendment Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements Bill 2016 which ...
Allens Accelerate: The startup investor tax concessions - what you need to know
The Federal Government has introduced a Bill detailing tax concessions to incentivise investment into Australian startups ...
New energy certificate exemptions for sellers and landlords
From 1 July 2015 sellers and landlords will be able to enter into sales and leases which are the result of unsolicited offers or which involve only wholly-owned subsidiaries without the need to first provide a building energy efficiency certificate following amendments to federal legislation Partner ...
CEPA introduces new environment management fees
Papua New Guineas Conservation and Environment Protection Authority commences implementation of its new fee structure this year Partner Vincent Bull and Senior Associate Ryan Warokra look at the changes and how they will be administered ...
Increased whistleblower protections, and more to come...
The Federal Parliament has passed an industrial relations bill that includes significant increases to the whistleblower protections applicable to unions and employer organisations In what would be a comprehensive overhaul of Australias whistleblower laws the Federal Government has separately agreed ...
Supply chains in the spotlight: Establishing an Australian Modern Slavery Act
The Australian Government has announced the launch of a broad inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia The inquiry will consider whether the introduction of anti-slavery legislation would strengthen and improve Australias current regime to combat slavery If introduced a Modern ...
Life insurance, conflicted remuneration and commissions
The Bill to amend the conflicted remuneration provisions in the Corporations Act for life insurance has been introduced into Parliament a second time and draft regulations have been released for comment However we struggle to know how to describe them because the changes seem to have conflicting ...