ASIC intensifies bother in banking
"The volume and range of breach reports" from banks, AMP and others "indicates a significant risk of systemic non-compliance" with requirements for fee disclosure statements and renewal notices in the financial advice sector, ASIC said on Friday.ASIC said it would "undertake a project that will test compliance with FDS and renewal notice requirements across the industry," in light of "a number of breach reports from licensees which indicate they may have failed to comply" with requirements that were implemented as part of the Future of Financial Advice reforms in 2013.Many of these breach reports may have been inspired by the scrutiny of the financial services royal commission in which these issues have featured. ASIC said it is "currently investigating substantial breaches of these obligations with a view to taking enforcement action".It will test compliance with these obligations across a range of small and large licensees and will provide findings in 2019.