As far as possible, legislation governing financial services entities should identify expressly what fundamental norms of behaviour are being pursued when particular and detailed rules are made about a particular subject matter. Government Response The Government agrees to simplify the Read More …
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Simplifying the law so that its intent is met
A general recommendation is that, as far as possible, exceptions and qualifications to generally applicable norms of conduct in legislation governing financial services entities should be eliminated (Recommendation 7.3). In this way, the first, and essential, step to take is Read More …
Recommendations: Answering the key questions
As I have already said, I think it useful to restate and reorder what I have set out above so that the reader can see the way in which particular recommendations fit together. Restated and reordered below, the recommendations seek Read More …
Simplification so that the law’s intent is met
Recommendation 7.3 – Exceptions and qualifications As far as possible, exceptions and qualifications to generally applicable norms of conduct in legislation governing financial services entities should be eliminated. Recommendation 7.4 – Fundamental norms As far as possible, legislation governing financial Read More …
3 Simplification so that the law’s intent is met
Many submissions responding to the Interim Report supported simplification of financial services laws.[1] Industry, community groups and regulators agreed the current law is too complex. The effect of legal complexity on each of these groups differs. What would be achieved Read More …
3.1 Why change?
In the Interim Report, I said that ‘[w]hen deciding what to do in response to misconduct, ASIC’s starting point appears to have been: How can this be resolved by agreement?’[1] I said also that ‘[t]his cannot be the starting point Read More …
Introduction
I said in the Interim Report that almost all of the conduct identified and criticised in that Report contravened existing norms of conduct and that the most serious conduct broke existing laws.[1] Notwithstanding that, the law was too often not Read More …
3 Governance
Coming now to the third of the principal themes of this chapter, as I said earlier, governance refers to all of the structures and processes by which an entity is run. It embraces not only by whom, and how, decisions Read More …
2.2 Changing culture
As I have said, each financial services entity is responsible for its own culture. Each must form a view of its culture, identify problems, develop and implement a plan to deal with them, and then determine whether the changes it Read More …
2.1 Supervising culture
2.1.1Responses to the GFC While prudential supervisors have no doubt formed views about the culture of financial institutions for many years, the idea that the culture of financial institutions was directly linked to financial soundness and stability only appears to Read More …