Financial System Inquiry

http://fsi.gov.au/

Last activity: 22.09.2017

Probably Closed

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Location

Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra

Employees

11-50

Mentions in press and media 19

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Oct 13, 2016	New life insurance code riddled with loopholes	By Gail Pearson, University of Sydney Life insurance has stood out as an industry without a code of practice when others such as general insurers have one. The latest attempt by the Financial Services Council to remedy this may be a last ch...
Sep 24, 2015	Keeping up or holding back? The regulation challenge for government	A 21st Century government needs 21st Century regulation. The key is not to predict the future. It is to have flexible rules and processes that do not lock us into a particular technology. It also means fighting the vested interests who will...
Mar 8, 2015	11 tips to protect yourself from real estate scams	Real estate investment seminars are in the spotlight again with the competition watchdog instituting proceedings against property training company We Buy Houses and best-selling author Rick Otton. The Australian Competition and Consumer Com...
Mar 3, 2015	SMEs look for other ways to gear business premises	SME owners are examining alternative ways to acquire and gear their business premises in the event that the government bars self-managed super funds from directly borrowing to invest using increasingly-popular limited recourse borrowing arr...
Feb 12, 2015	Warning that SMSF borrowing could “increase risk in the financial system”	Last December, the Financial Services Inquiry’s final report recommended a ban on borrowing to invest in property through self-managed superannuation. Among its 44 recommendations, the FSI report advised government that to minimise risk to ...
Jan 15, 2015	Is time up for SMSF lending?	Last month, the government released it’s latest Financial Systems Inquiry Report. The Inquiry led by David Murray laid out a ‘blueprint’ for the financial system over the next decade. It has been 16 years since the last 1997 Wallis report w...
Dec 15, 2014	Why slow and steady approach to crowdfunding may pay off	The Financial System Inquiry has taken a “slow and steady” approach to financial crowdfunding, despite perceptions that Australia is lagging behind in this area. While acknowledging the wide range of global crowdfunding models, the report f...
Dec 14, 2014	Murray pushes for fewer super tax breaks but change is unlikely	David Murray’s Financial System Inquiry may call for the removal of superannuation tax breaks but the government’s tax discussion paper, due to be released next week, is unlikely to advocate similar changes. The FSI inquiry report recommend...
Dec 10, 2014	‘Generally adequate’? How the big banks screw over small business	Two small words in David Murray’s Financial System Inquiry final report stretch credulity: right up front, on page xvi of the executive summary, it states that the level of competition in banking is “generally adequate”. That would surprise...
Dec 8, 2014	Financial System Inquiry crowdfunding recommendation draws support from startup industry figures	The Financial System Inquiry’s recommendation that the government should implement fundraising regulation to facilitate crowdfunding for debt and equity, and eventually other forms of financing, has been welcomed by a number of startup indu...
Dec 8, 2014	Australia’s fintech landscape goes under the microscope	Australia needs to implement a national federated digital identity strategy, establish a private-public sector innovation committee, and make regulation technology-neutral to ensure the country’s financial services sector is not restrained ...
Nov 28, 2014	AMP, Vanguard to test digital financial product disclosures	Financial services firms AMP and Vanguard have partnered with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission to test out digital product disclosures, the regulator announced today. Currently, financial institutions are required to phys...
Nov 27, 2014	Australian Govt to rethink cyber security strategy	The Australian Government will soon seek advice from industry on a proposed update to the nation’s cyber security strategy, giving in to calls to review the ageing policy in light of a vastly different technological landscape. The existing ...
Aug 25, 2014	Self-managed super: SMEs to expedite gearing of business premises	SME owners are likely to accelerate existing plans to gear their business premises through their self-managed super funds after renewed debate about whether to bar future superannuation gearing, say advisers to SMSFs and small-medium busine...
Jul 16, 2014	What the Murray financial industry report means for your business	Business groups have raised concerns about a number of proposals included in the Federal Government’s interim report for its Financial System Inquiry, including the establishment of a database of SMEs which would be available to financers. ...
May 19, 2014	Investors demand tax reform in budget’s aftermath	The federal government should offer a firm commitment to tackle key issues on tax reform in order to strengthen venture capital in Australia, according to Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association chief executive Yasser El-A...
May 16, 2014	Investors demand tax reform in budget’s aftermath	The federal government should offer a firm commitment to tackle key issues on tax reform in order to strengthen venture capital in Australia, according to Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association chief executive Yasser El-A...
Apr 9, 2014	Early funding solved for Australia’s “lean startups”?	A submission to the Financial Systems Inquiry by Innovation Australia highlights Australian market failure in early stage equity capital, saying it was a longstanding issue “particularly in relation to innovation-based and other innovation ...

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Parsers VC has collected 19 articles mentioning Financial System Inquiry, among them “New life insurance code riddled with loopholes” (Oct 13, 2016) and “Keeping up or holding back? The regulation challenge for government” (Sep 24, 2015).

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Financial System Inquiry is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 22, 2017.