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The regulator will target predatory lending practices and misconduct against small business, with a focus on scams, particularly where conduct hurts retirement outcomes. It’s also looking into how banks responds to customers in financial distress.
The four majors along with AMP and Macquarie have paid or offered to pay a total of $4.7 million for charging fees for advice services they did not provide and for noncompliant advice, bringing to a close an eight-year review by ASIC and a key chapter of the advice industry shakeup led by the Hayne commission.
The regulator’s financial reporting surveillance program has turned up numerous companies failing to make required risk disclosures in financial reports, as it reminds directors of their obligation to provide investors with key information about a company’s prospects.