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English High Court provides important guidance on approach to LIBOR mis-selling claims
The English High Court has handed down its judgment on the first major case following the global regulatory investigations into alleged LIBOR manipulation ...
The low down on tall towers in Melbourne
Recent press reports have made much of Leanne Hodyls Churchill Fellowship report findings that high-rise apartment towers are being built within Melbournes Hoddle Grid at four times the maximum densities allowed in cities such as Hong Kong New York and Tokyo In the light of this report Managing ...
The fintech phenomenon - risks and opportunities
Everyone is talking about fintech What is it And what does it mean for the financial services industry and for regulation ...
ASIC releases consultation paper on regulatory sandbox exemption for startups
ASIC has released a consultation paper on proposals to facilitate innovation in the financial services sector The proposals include details of the long-awaited regulatory sandbox It will be of interest to both emerging companies who may rely on the relief as well as investors in this space Senior ...
Life insurance industry gets a remuneration Bill, ASIC report and Code of Practice
This is a significant week for the life insurance industry with the re-introduction by the Federal Government of a Bill to reform commissions payable on life insurance policies the release by ASIC of findings of its review of life insurance claims and the launch yesterday by the Financial Services ...
Financial Services Class Actions
Our class actions team recently published our Class Action Risk 2016 report The objective of the report is to look behind the headlines and hype that often surrounds class actions to provide a more holistic and objective assessment of class action risk for our clients This is particularly important ...
Implications for government acquiring agencies under NSW land acquisition reform
This insight examines the key changes to the NSW Governments' announcement to its intention to reform the land acquisition process in New South Wales. ...
Bill to repeal equal representation rules for superannuation trustee boards
Treasury today released what appears to be an extract from an Exposure Draft Bill that will remove the equal representation rules in the Superannuation Industry Supervision Act 1993 Cth and require at least a third of the directors of superannuation trustee boards to be independent If passed the ...
APRA's assessment of life insurers: 'must try harder'
As an institution APRA can be partial to bureaucratese As keen readers of APRAs writings we sometimes find ourselves asking ndash what is APRA really saying here And that is a question worth asking when reading APRAs recent letter to life companies setting out its concerns with group insurance ...
The beginning of the end of the unit trust's monopoly?
It is surprising the Federal Government did not make more of its release on 4 June of the Board of Taxations report on tax arrangements applying to collective investment vehicles We can only assume that the government was slightly embarrassed that the report handed to the previous government in 2011 ...