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Investors question payday lenders at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... obligations and that there were no financial liabilities/continent liabilities in relation to any legal cases or actions from ASIC. " In documentation provided to The Sustainability Report, Walsh noted in each letter to Money3 and Cash Converters that ...

UCA Funds Management select Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... exemptions provided to charitable and religious investment bodies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). UCA Funds Management will re-register two of its funds - the Development ...

UCA Funds Management to convert funds to MIS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... exemptions provided to charitable and religious investment bodies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). UCA Funds Management is an entity of the Uniting Church of Australia ...

Investors, payday lenders engage on lending practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... The group has separate proposals relating to each sector. This week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced that Money3 has stopped offering its two-payments 'fixed fee' loan arrangement and agreed to refund more than $100,000 ...

Materiality reviews a source of strategic value: ACCSR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... recommendations from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC ) and the ASX have come into effect, such as the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations, Principle ...

Victorian government boosts Good Money funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... government's support, is helping us explore innovative alternatives to address the issue of financial exclusion." See Also: ASIC issues report on payday lending Social, regulatory risks to growing payday lending market

ASX200 ESG reporting improves, but laggards persist: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... this year, as new reporting guidelines for material ESG risks from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the ASX Corporate Governance Council will start to take effect. As part of ASX's Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations ...

Companies consider implications of new ASX principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... recommendation brings ASX in line with corporate governance recommendations from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) made in 2013. "The whole point of recommendation 7.4, about disclosing whether you have material exposure to ...

ASIC issues report on payday lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC ) has warned the payday lending industry to improve its consumer protections or face more enforcement action. ASIC issued a report recently that found that some payday lenders are "engaging ...

Investors to engage with payday lenders over practices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... information, is that compliance is an issue. [W]hile there's a good strong code for responsible lending, between the efforts of ASIC and the companies concerned, there appear to be compliance problems. We have a proposal asking the payday lenders that ...