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Transparency and Accountability - and not just for Wall Street
Insight 07 Mar 2016

The regulatory law repercussions of the GFC remain endlessly fascinating As an example take the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 It runs to 848 pages Title VII addresses perhaps optimistically Wall Street Transparency and Accountability My favourite provision is section ...

Coming this spring: ACCC to monitor large merchants' payment surcharges
Insight 02 Jun 2016

The Reserve Bank has now released a Standard which sets out what payment surcharges will be permitted for the purposes of the new Part IVC of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 Cth The aim of the Standard is to improve competition and efficiency by providing to consumers price signals associated ...

Crowd-sourced equity funding
Insight 05 Feb 2016

The Government has finally begun the process of implementing its policy on crowd-sourced equity funding CSEF by introducing a Bill and releasing draft exposure regulations late last year which envisage the establishment of a CSEF regime in Australia The Bill has been referred to the Senate Economics ...

Corporate law developments
Insight 09 Feb 2018

Welcome to our monthly snapshot of regulatory updates and other developments in corporate law We know you are busy so our focus is on capturing key issues ...

One click from meltdown - cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
Insight 03 May 2018

Security experts have been predicting for some time that as critical infrastructure networks become smarter more automated and more connected they will also become more vulnerable to cyber threats Reports last week of extensive attacks on critical infrastructure by hackers associated with the ...

Direct .au registrations, a new internet tax or a way to strengthen the .au market?
Insight 24 Apr 2018

In the most significant change since the .au domain was introduced more than 30 years ago, .au Domains Administration (auDA), the industry body for Australian-specific domain names, has approved the registration of .au second-level domain names, known as direct registration. ...

Misuse of market power - Court rejects ACCC allegations against Pfizer
Insight 25 May 2018

The full federal court have ruled in favour of Pfizer against the ACCC alleging that Pfizer used its market power for an anti-competitive purpose (s 46) and engaged in exclusive dealing conduct for the purpose of substantially lessening competition in the atorvastatin market (s 47). ...

National Energy Guarantee - the emissions requirement in Australia's carbon policy landscape
Insight 23 May 2018

Following the recent release of the National Energy Guarantee High Level Design Document Partner Jillian Button xand Lawyer Dale Straughen consider how the proposed emissions reduction requirement of the Guarantee will interact with Australias existing emissions reduction policies This article is ...

Exposure Draft to implement tax integrity package for stapled structures released
Insight 23 May 2018

Treasury has released the first of several tranches of exposure draft legislation to implement the Federal Governments tax integrity package for stapled structures and broader tax concessions currently available to certain foreign investors The draft legislation sets out the requirements that ...

Video: Australia's growing cyber insurance industry: insights from Chris Mackinnon, Lloyd's
Insight 19 Apr 2018

Cyber insurance has emerged as a multibillion-dollar global industry safeguarding businesses against financial losses from the explosion of cyber risk We caught up with Chris Mackinnon head of Lloyds in Australia to discuss the state of the cyber insurance market in Australia the challenges of ...

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