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Allens lends a hand to Global Health
Allens has advised the Global Health Investment Fund ( GHIF ), a private investment fund whose mission is to finance late-stage drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for diseases that disproportionately ...
Competing class actions - a problem in need of a solution
As fertile ground for class actions the Royal Commission has highlighted an ongoing problem with Australia's class action regime - there is no clear consistent means for resolving competing class actions. ...
The High Court has its say on penalties
The high court handed down its decision in Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand banking group limited. ...
Grizzly times ahead for banks
A consultation paper on the BEAR has been released confirming the Federal Governments intention to impose an executive accountability regime on banks and their subsidiaries that follows important elements of current international accountability regimes You have three weeks to provide your comments ...
Consumer protection in the banking, insurance and financial sector
The Senate Economics References Committee is conducting an inquiry into the regulatory framework for the protection of consumers in the banking insurance and financial services sector ...
Post-election policy recap
As the dust settles following the recent federal election it is a good time to reflect on what we can expect from the re-elected Coalition Government for the financial services sector There are two main groups of policy proposals that are going to need to get through Parliament The first is the ...
Dodd Frank - promoting financial stability and other purposes
The Dodd Frank Act is a bit like the US financial system it is trying to regulate - vast complex and hard to wade through It creates a bunch of new regulators on top of what was already a pretty solid cast and gives them wide-ranging powers They can not only set capital and liquidity requirements ...
Protecting accrued superannuation benefits from adverse changes
For a long time now superannuation lawyers have tried to work out the meaning of the following words a beneficiarys right or claim to accrued benefits and the amount of those accrued benefits must not be altered adversely to the beneficiary by amendment of the governing rules or by any other act ...
Should you pay a cyber criminal's ransom?
With ransomware attacks affecting six out of 10 Australian organisations1 businesses are being forced to decide whether to concede to the ransom demands of cyber criminals in order to regain access to critical data However with no guarantee that payment of a ransom will release their data businesses ...
Close and continuous monitoring - the new ASIC approach of embedding its officers in banks
ASIC has recently announced a new supervisory approach that involves embedding ASIC officers in the four major banks and AMP ...