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Royal Commission: Round 4 - experiences with financial service entities in regional and remote communities
In the Interim Report the Commissioner identifies four principal issues relating to agricultural lending ...
Australian Financial Complaints Authority: a 'one-stop-shop' for financial dispute resolution
The new Australian Financial Complaints Authority is to replace each of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Credit and Investments Ombudsman in November 2018 ...
Linklaters Insights: Year in review, Year to come, Australian Law in 2018
Key areas of focus included law reform in relation to data protection and foreign investment regulation and taxation as well as new laws aimed at protecting critical infrastructure assets and making companies operating in Australia more accountable in some of their business practices and operations ...
Amendments to include insurance claims handling in the definition of 'financial services'
The Federal Government has released a consultation paper which takes action on Recommendation 4.8 of the Banking Royal Commission's Final Report. If implemented, the handling and settlement of insurance claims will become a 'financial service' under the Corporations Act 2001 ...
ASIC's change of tone in action
ASIC's 'why not litigate?' approach to enforcement activities and its change in tone confirm the new era of regulatory engagement has arrived. In particular, its recent actions in the Federal Court place the waiving of legal professional privilege under the spotlight. ...
ATO clarifies position on superannuation and annual leave loading
The Australian Taxation Office (the ATO) has clarified that superannuation will be payable on annual leave loading unless there is evidence that the reason for the loading is connected to a lost opportunity to work overtime. ...
Coming on board with a criminal record
The Australian Human Rights Commission decided that a New South Wales company discriminated against a prospective employee by rescinding an offer of employment after discovering her criminal record. ...
Significant fee changes for patents and trade marks are coming in New Zealand
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand announced a number of patent and trade mark fee changes including a significant increase in official fees throughout the lifecycle of a patent, and moderate fee reductions for trade marks to take effect later in 2019 ...
New WA policy facilitating market-led proposals
The Western Australian Government recently released its Market-led Proposals Policy which seeks to provide a single consistent and transparent process for the private sector to submit infrastructure service provision and other proposals outside the context of a government-initiated procurement ...
The ACCC's Consumer Data Right Rules Framework
In preparation for the implementation of the first phase of the Consumer Data Right CDR on 1 July 2019 and fresh off the consultation period for the Federal Governments draft CDR legislation the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ACCC released the Consumer Data Right Rules Framework the ...