financial regulation in australia

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The Australian government has announced that it will not cancel the 99-year lease of Darwin Port to a Chinese company, despite concerns from the United States about potential spying on military forces. The Chinese company, Landbridge Industry Australia, hopes that this decision will end security concerns. However, some experts argue that regulation cannot solve the security risks posed by Chinese control of the port. The Australian government has gained new powers to block similar deals in the future.

Foreign universities keen to enter the country can now do so free of domestic regulations like those of the University Grants Commission. On Tuesday, in line with an announcement made by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the union budget, the International Financial Services Centre Authority (Setting up and Operation of International Branch Campuses and Offshore Education Centres) Regulations, 2022, were cleared.​

Germany's financial regulator BaFin warned on Tuesday of the "very big" risk of cyberattacks targeting the financial sector, a threat it said had become "more likely" since Russia's war on Ukraine.

Countries across the world have enacted laws targeting foreign-funded media and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), classifying them as "foreign agents". The laws are intended to address concerns about foreign influence on domestic affairs but have unfairly targeted organisations providing human rights and social assistance or monitoring government transparency.

The regulator will ask brokers, traders registered with it and mutual funds to stop associating with financial influencers who are seen to be giving misleading advise and inducing investors, said the first person, a senior regulatory official.

To start with, it is available from 21 February to all travelers from G-20 countries, at select international airports (Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi).

Information and broadcasting secretary Apurva Chandra made a strong pitch for big-tech aggregators to share a part of their revenue with publishers of digital news, who generate original content.

The Indian economy is likely to grow by 11% in 2021-22, the V-shaped recovery having been made possible by its strategy of Covid management that focused on protection of life at the expense of a short-term impact on livelihoods, the Economic Survey for 2020-21 has argued.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday chair a virtual global investor roundtable that will provide an opportunity to leading global investors and Indian business leaders to engage and deliberate with senior policy makers on how to further accelerate the growth of international investments in the country.

The chair of Australia's corporate regulator stood aside on Friday pending a review of his claiming of expenses, saying the government auditor suspected he overshot his maximum salary allocation with payments incurred moving from the United States.

The fintech sector recently got another boost in the country’s first international financial services centre (IFSC) at Gujarat International Finance-Tec City (GIFT) in Gandhinagar, when American multinational IBM inaugurated the IBM Software Labs at GIFT-IFSC. Conceptualized a decade and half ago as an IFSC, the pace of growth, participation and investment at GIFT City has seen unprecedented growth in the past three years.

There’s a lot going on in the crypto world, little of it good. Bear market conditions made worse by steep taxation have sent many away from the market, but investors and many companies see this as temporary and hope for better days ahead

Greater China's flagging initial public offerings (IPOs) are set to get a fillip in 2022 from the expected unveiling of new rules by Beijing for Chinese firms' offshore listings, giving clarity to jittery investors, investment bankers and analysts said.

Whether or not the government will ban all cryptocurrencies totally is still not clear. What is clear, however, is that thousands of Indians are flocking to these digital assets, pumping in crores of rupees. Here’s what you need to know before joining them

Australia FTA shows India is now confident on trade. Aim bigger, including the ambitious deal with US