chris green, asic: key issues report
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Chris Green of ASIC delivered this presentation at the 2013 Credit Law conference. The event offers key insights from the regulators; thought-provoking sessions from industry leaders; and updates on all the regulatory changes impacting the sector. For more information on the annual event, please visit the conference website: http://www.informalegal.com.au/law-legal-conferences/credit-law-conferenceTRANSCRIPT
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Presentation to
Annual Credit Law
Conference
Chris Green
October 2013
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Credit licensing
June 2011 September 2013
Australian credit
licenses
6,081 5,850
(3,941 key person
condition)
Credit
representatives
24,005 29,274
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Geographic demographics of
licensees (Sept 2013)
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Geographic demographics of
credit reps (Sept 2013)
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1739 2622
338 304 165 2337
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Credit licensing – entity type
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4875
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Company
Body Corporate
Partnership
Trustee of MultiTrusts
Natural Person
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Credit licensees – industry
type
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Credit licensees – type of
credit
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Credit licensing – amount of
credit
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0.00%20.00%40.00%60.00%80.00%
100.00%94.17%
3.17% 1.38% 0.49% 0.20% 0.07% 0.03% 0.48%
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Credit licensing –
authorisations
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724
4605
521
Provide Credit
Other thanCreditProvider/Lessor
All
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Thematic Reviews
• Thematic reviews are used as part of our
risk-based surveillance approach
– enables ASIC to gain a broad
understanding of industry practices;
– opportunity to provide some guidance;
– enforcement action is more likely if
guidance is ignored.
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Consumer Credit Insurance
• Consumer claims handling
experiences
• Key findings
• Consumers who are well informed at
purchase have a better experience in
claims handling
• Process is stressful and costly for
consumers already going through a
difficult time
• Significant room for improvement
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Responsible lending
• Credit assistance providers,
focusing on ‘low doc’ home loans
(Report 262)
• Mortgage brokers were aware of their
obligations and taking steps to comply
• improvements needed particularly in
recording steps taken to assess
suitability
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Responsible lending
• Aggregators - focusing on supervision of
representatives (Report 330)
• Improvements in practices have been
made
• Some concerns about how licensees with
a large number of representatives are:
• identifying instances of credit assistance
• accessing records
• reviewing compliance
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Responsible Lending
• Debt consolidation (Report 358)
– Record keeping
– Aims and objectives of consumers
– Risks and costs of debt consolidation
• Micro – Lending (Report 264)
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Responsible lending
• Current work
• Credit providers - responsible lending
obligations on loans that are promoted as low
doc
• Small amount credit contract providers
– presumptions of unsuitability
– bank statements
– protected income
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Current regulatory focus
• Advertising
• Annual Compliance Certificates
• Reviews and consultation
• Fraudulent loan applications
• Avoidance
• Responsible lending
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Advertising
• ASIC re-issued RG 234 - Advertising
financial products and advice services:
Good practice guidance
– Principles based with examples
– Will assist in steering you away from grey
areas
• Why is advertising important?
• Enhanced powers
– Infringement notices – misleading
representations, Code breaches
– Public warning notices
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Advertising (contd)
• ASIC’s approach – Proactive
– Transparent
– Important to hold entities responsible for an advertisement to account
• General principles – No intention to mislead required
– Overall impression created when viewing the advertisement for the first time
– Qualifications must be clear and prominent assessed against the strength and prominence of the headline claim
– A misleading impression cannot be cured
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Annual Compliance
Certificates
• Purpose of the ACC and our reviews
• Surveillance – sample across Australia,
large and small licensees
• Focus:
– Adequate resources
– Supervision of representatives
– Arrangements to comply with credit
legislation – eg responsible lending or
code requirements
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Reviews and consultation
• Joint review with ACCC of the
Debt Collection Guidelines (RG
96)
• EDR - review of RG 139 post-
commencement access to EDR
• Hardship – Enhancement Act
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Enforcement & compliance
outcomes
• To 1 July 2013:
– 24 administrative outcomes
(licence cancellations,
suspensions and bannings)
– 2 criminal
– 5 civil
– 5 Enforceable undertakings
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Enforcement & compliance
outcomes
• Tyre and rim insurance
• Infringement notices
• Responsible lending
– consumer leasing
• Avoidance
• Fraudulent loan applications
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Looking forward
• Advertising
• Motor vehicle finance
• Credit cards and responsible lending
• Licensee’s supervision of representatives
• Implementing recent regulatory reforms
• Unconscionable conduct and breaches of
responsible lending in vulnerable
communities
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Questions
?
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