Regulation

More than one in four Australians have avoided applying for a financial product because they feared damaging their credit score, prompting calls for reforms to modernise the country’s ...

Almost half of Australian small businesses plan to raise prices following the introduction of the card surcharge ban, with two-thirds expecting the changes to increase their operating costs, ...

One Nation has pledged to reverse Labor’s changes to the capital gains tax discount and retain negative gearing benefits for up to two investment properties if elected at the next federal ...

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has lost a Federal Court case after it was ruled its insurers weren’t required to reimburse the bank for $116.92 million in settlements resolving ...

The broking industry has welcomed ASIC’s audit of best interests duty obligations but questioned the emphasis on low-cost loan recommendations and called for clearer guidance on complaints ...

The financial services regulator has published its latest best interests duty report, putting broker compliance and dispute handling under the microscope. Find out what the core findings and ...

Brokers have hit out at the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort after it emerged that a proposed framework for allocating the scheme’s blowout in costs could see the special levy on credit ...

A broker who has already played the Prime Minister at tennis over tax settings has now set his sights on a new issue for small businesses: the card surcharge ban.

A brokerage director and his affiliated companies have been ordered to pay more than $470,000 in penalties over the exploitation of migrant workers and other workplace law breaches.

ASIC has issued an interim stop order preventing Australian Secure Capital Fund Limited from offering three private credit funds as it strengthens its oversight of the private credit sector