Results for "Design and distribution obligations"
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BEAR Bill implementation date likely to change
This afternoon the Senate Standing Committee on Economics released their report on the Treasury Laws Amendment Banking Executive Accountability and Related Measures Bill 2017 BEAR Bill The Economics Committee recommends that the BEAR Bill be passed but recommends the commencement date be pushed out ...
Breach reporting update: reducing the regulatory burden on licensees
ASIC has made some helpful amendments (the Instrument ) to AFS and credit licensees’ obligations regarding certain breach reporting under the reportable situations regime (the Regime ). These updat ...
InIP: What's happening in intellectual property - February 2024
Your regular wrap-up of some of the world's leading and intriguing IP stories. ...
Safeguard Mechanism 2.0: emitters face first 2024 carbon compliance milestone
Existing emitters under the Safeguard Mechanism will face their first major compliance milestone. In this Insight, we outline the key components of the emissions-intensity determination and explain what compliance entities for existing facilities need to be considering now. ...
DDO conditional relief: facilitating the reissue of life insurance policies
In a welcome move for life insurers reissuing or reinstating certain life policies, ASIC has registered the ASIC Corporations Instrument 2023/183. In this Insight, we provide a brief overview of the purpose of the Instrument and the relief granted by ASIC. ...
Product design and distribution rules
On 13 December 2016 Treasury released a paper seeking feedback on the proposed financial product design and distribution obligations and proposed product intervention powers for ASIC The proposals are intended to create new accountability obligations for product issuers and distributors On one view ...
Strengthening the regulation of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) in Australia
As expected, increased regulation of the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) industry is becoming more likely following Treasury's release of the options paper, Regulating Buy Now, Pay Later in Australia (Options Paper). ...
Will they or won't they? Will the responsible lending reforms pass the Senate?
Ahead of the next Senate sitting on 15 June 2021, we have prepared a short timeline summarising the history and progression of the Bill, along with relevant commentary and supporting material. ...
ASIC's report on financial advice
ASIC has recently released a report about its work with the big four banks and AMP on adviser misconduct The report is essentially an update on the progress of ASICs Wealth Management Project and mostly contains information we already know The most interesting part deals with the results of ASICs ...
National Electricity and Gas rules update: November 2023
In our latest update, we examine the progress of new and existing rule change requests to the AEMC across the month of November, as well as take a closer look at the AEMC's draft determination in relation to the provision of mandatory primary frequency response by grid-scale batteries. ...