22 March 2019
While our member banks have taken steps to remove these conflicts of interest, the industry has advocated for a legislative approach to implementation of these reforms to ensure consistency across the industry and overcome practical and contractual challenges to fully removing conflicted remuneration.
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The ABA fully supports the removal of the exemption for funeral expenses policies from the defintion of financial products.
The ABA welcomes the exclusion from the requirement to provide a Target Market Determination (TMD) of credit provided wholly or predominantly for business purposes. In implementing this legislation, it is important that the principle of scalability be flexibly applied and that clear guidance be given on this by ASIC. We welcome the clarification around the… Read more »
The ABA supports stronger powers for ASIC and a strengthening of the regulatory framework for financial services and corporations laws generally as recommended by the ASICERT.
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