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FRC Consults on Guidance to Audit Committees

The Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”) is consulting on proposed changes to the Guidance for Audit Committees to support the changes to UK Corporate Governance Code and to give effect to the FRC’s Effective Company Stewardship proposals.
Originally Published: 
Friday, April 20, 2012

FRC Consults on UK Stewardship Code

The Financial Reporting Council has today begun consultation on proposed revisions to the UK Stewardship Code.
Originally Published: 
Friday, April 20, 2012

Trench Warfare Over Dodd-Frank Implementation

In a wide-ranging interview covering the provisions on conflict minerals and the Volcker rule on limiting proprietary trading, Professor Eric Talley of the University of California at Berkeley discusses the key obstacles involved in implementing Dodd-Frank.
Originally Published: 
Thursday, April 19, 2012

ASIC Requires HSBC to Change Home Loan Advertising

HSBC Bank Australia has changed the advertising for its current ‘Let’s Bankercise’ campaign, in response to ASIC concerns that ads promoting a home loan discount were potentially misleading.
Originally Published: 
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

CPSS-IOSCO Issue New Standards for Financial Market Infrastructures

The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have today published three documents that promote global efforts to strengthen financial market infrastructures (FMIs).
Originally Published: 
Monday, April 16, 2012

ASIC Charges Former Bell Potter Advisor with Fraudulent Conduct

Mr Glenn Russell Evans, a former Senior Client Advisor with Bell Potter Securities Limited, was charged with 15 counts of fraudulent conduct involving more than $1.06 million following an ASIC investigation into conduct arising from Mr Evan’s role as a director of Kismet Trading Pty Ltd (In Liquidat
Originally Published: 
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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