Financial Services

The Financial Services section of this website has been divided into the separate stages of financial reform.

Legislation relating to financial services can be found on this website under Bills, Acts and Legislation.

General

	Results 1 to 2 of 2
11-09-2011	Australian Government's 2008 Deposit and Wholesale Funding Guarantees
04-03-2011	Natural Disaster Insurance Review

Financial Sector Advisory Council (FSAC)

The Financial Sector Advisory Council (FSAC) is a non-statutory body established in March 1998 as a result of the Financial System Inquiry (Wallis reforms). It brings together a range of financial market participants to provide advice to the Government on policies to facilitate the growth of a strong and competitive financial sector. The Council helps to ensure that we maintain an efficient and dynamic financial system.

Members of FSAC are appointed in their personal capacity for two years, subject to continued involvement in the relevant area of the financial sector. FSAC currently meets around six times each year.

FSAC is supported by a secretariat provided by Treasury.

FSAC can be contacted by writing to the following address:

The FSAC Secretariat
C/- Financial System Division
The Treasury
Langton Crescent
PARKES ACT 2600

The full FSAC Charter is now available.

FSAC released the report Review of the Outcomes of the Financial System Inquiry 1997 in August 2004.

Financial Services Reform

	Results 1 to 24 of 24
14-12-2009	Product Rationalisation of Managed Investment Schemes and Life Insurance Products - Proposals Paper
22-06-2007	Product Rationalisation - Issues Paper
24-05-2007	Simpler Regulatory System Bill Package
26-03-2007	Corporate and Financial Services Regulation Review – Draft Corporations Regulations amendments
02-11-2006	Regulation for Compensation for Loss in the Financial Services Sector
14-08-2006	Corporate and Financial Services Regulation Review
26-04-2006	Quota Reform and the G-20
26-04-2006	Progressing the G-20's Agenda on Reform of the Governance of the Bretton Woods Institutions
07-04-2006	Corporate and Financial Services Regulation Review – Consultation Paper
19-12-2005	Refinements to Financial Services Regulation
17-10-2005	A Framework for a Review of the International Financial Institutions - Background Paper
11-10-2005	Exposure Draft Regulations – FSR Refinements
19-05-2005	Proposed transitional 'common fund' regulations
02-05-2005	Refinements to Financial Services Regulation - Proposals Paper May 2005
16-03-2005	Enhanced Fee Disclosure Measures and other regulations
11-01-2005	Acts and Regulations
05-05-2004	TOR for Development of a Framework for Closer Integration of Trans Tasman Banking Regulation
24-12-2003	Compensation for Loss in the Financial Services Sector - Position Paper
22-05-2003	Corporations Amendment Regulations and Provisions - Previously Consulted
02-12-2002	Submissions: Compensation for Loss in the Financial Services Sector - Issues and Options
06-09-2002	Compensation for Loss in the Financial Services Sector - Issues and Options
01-04-1999	Financial Services Reform Bill
03-03-1999	CLERP - Financial Products, Service Providers and Markets
01-04-1997	CLERP Paper No. 6: Proposals for Reform - Financial Markets and Investment Products

Financial System Inquiry

The Financial System Inquiry website is now available at http://fsi.treasury.gov.au

Government's Response to the Financial System Inquiry

The Government's response to the Financial System Inquiry came in two stages.

Stage I introduced a comprehensive package of regulatory reforms for the financial sector which included the introduction of new legislation.

Stage II's main objective was to facilitate the transfer of State- and Territory-regulated financial institutions (such as building societies, credit unions and friendly societies) to the Commonwealth regulatory regime. This change was to encourage competition between the non-bank deposit taking institutions and the banks.

HIH Claims Support

	Results 1 to 3 of 3
27-05-2004	Study of Financial System Guarantees (Davis Report)
27-05-2004	Key Findings of the Review of Discretionary Mutual Funds and Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers
11-08-2003	Closure of the HIH Claims Support Scheme

Review of the Managed Investments Act 1998

The Review of the Managed Investments Act website is http://miareview.treasury.gov.au.

The Review of the Managed Investments Act 1998 was established to review the effectiveness of the arrangements for the regulation of managed investments introduced by the Managed Investments Act 1998, contained in Chapter 5C of the Corporations Act 2001.

The Review presented its report to Parliament in December 2001.