Samuel tipped as next ACCC boss
15 October 2002
Melbourne businessman and National Competition Council chief Graeme Samuel will probably take over as ACCC Chairman in mid-2004, and already comparisons…
15 October 2002
Melbourne businessman and National Competition Council chief Graeme Samuel will probably take over as ACCC Chairman in mid-2004, and already comparisons…
01 October 2002
APRA has made it very clear that there will be no more HIH collapses as long as it’s around…
01 October 2002
ASIC has made its final update to ISC Circular No G.I.2 which prescribes gross and net tax investment returns and inflation rates for policy illustrations between…
24 September 2002
The Federal Government is considering giving ASIC sweeping new powers in a bid to lift the bar on financial reporting…
24 September 2002
APRA and the Reserve Bank of Australia have established an annual scholarship program in memory of regulatory stalwart Brian Gray…
17 September 2002
ASIC has reached a milestone with 100 Product Disclosure Statement “in use” notices being lodged since the introduction of the FSRA in March…
03 September 2002
Looks like ASIC’s Australian Financial Services Licence applications might be a tad too complex for us mere mortals…
27 August 2002
The continuing criticism of APRA in the wake of the HIH collapse has done little to reduce its enthusiasm for the job…
27 August 2002
APRA has upgraded its internal rating system, the Probability And Impact Rating System, which it uses to assess the more than 3000 financial institutions that it regulates…
27 August 2002
Julie Read, the Assistant Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, has been appointed ASIC’s Tasmanian Regional Commissioner…
27 August 2002
ASIC has obtained an injunction restraining John Michael Higgins, a director of Macquarie Town Financial Planning, from providing financial products or services advice…
20 August 2002
Former NRMA Insurance Chairman Nick Whitlam has been banned from being a company director for five years and ordered to pay $20,000 for breaching his duties as a director…
20 August 2002
ASIC continues to churn out FSR material, with the recent release of the new section 4 Addendum to the AFS Licensing Kit…
20 August 2002
Former Accenture quality expert Mr John Doble has been appointed as GM of APRA’s planned Quality Assurance and Consistency Unit…
13 August 2002
APRA has appointed Brandon Khoo to run its superannuation supervisory activities…
13 August 2002
The new reality of the FSRA for everyone set in last week when ASIC placed its first interim stop orders on product disclosure statements on two companies…
13 August 2002
Former Tasmanian based insurance agent and financial adviser Joachim Prehn has been sentenced to six years’ jail, with a non-parole period of four years, after he was found guilty…
30 July 2002
ASIC’s Tasmanian Regional Commissioner, Simon Dwyer, in transferring to Adelaide as the SA Regional Commissioner…
23 July 2002
With all the controversy over a string of high-profile company collapses, ASIC Chairman David Knott couldn’t have picked a better time to lash out at the corporate cowboys…
23 July 2002
Former OAMPS MD Robert Porter has had charges against him withdrawn by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions…