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Real estate giant Domain has teamed up with an enterprise payments fintech to deliver a new and bespoke buy now, pay later (BNPL) product to the real estate industry.

The new year will usher in new body corporate laws aimed at reducing costs and enhancing protection for body corporate owners across Queensland.

2020 was a rocky year for practice valuations, with AMP’s landmark decision to revalue its BOLR terms having a butterfly effect through the market while thousands of advisers exited the industry.

Regulators look to next stage of recovery Sarah Kendell 24 December 2020 ASIC and APRA will enter 2021 with a firm focus on supporting financial players through “the next stage of recovery” from the pandemic as new legislation mandates closer collaboration between the two regulators in the new year. In an update released last week, the regulators said COVID-19 had “amplified the need for alignment” when it came to solving common problems in the f...

FASEA adds new degrees to approved list The standards authority has added two new university courses to its approved degree list for 2021. A A In a statement, FASEA said it had approved the UNSW Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial Planning, and the University of Tasmania Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning, starting from the first semester of 2021. It had also approved an additional Ethics and Professionalism bridging course offered by the University of Tasmania, also starting from th...

Magnolia has been given until 13 December 2020 to prove that it can pay up to proceed with its proposal to make a bid for The Agency Group, according to a new statement.