Section 989F of The Dodd- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 directed Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) to conduct a study of person-to-person lending.

Section 1505 of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 required Government Accountability Office to report on the relative independence, effectiveness, and expertise of the inspectors general.

Sections 1109A and 1109B of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 required Government Accountability Office to review the governance of the Reserve Banks.

The Financial Services Council has announced a new benchmark for transparency and governance in superannuation which will become mandatory for its Member companies.

An Australian Research Council funded Roundtable for the CLMR seminar - Who Or What Do We Trust? Towards a New Theory of Corporate Governance.

Justin O'Brien of the CLMR suggests that the definition of integrity needs to be clarified before regulators can begin rewriting new corporate governance rules.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's ("ASIC") assessment of the Australian Stock Exchange ("ASX") Group Licensees was used to broadly understand the operational changes that the ASX has made as a result of the transfer of market supervision to ASIC on 1 Aug

In stage two of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's review of the financial advice industry, ASIC intends to provide a questionnaire to 30 of the largest financial service licensees that will include specific questions on licensee business models, training of representatives,

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has released a report which analyses the trading of over-the-counter derivatives.

The purpose of the report was to evaluate, in light of the 2003 IOSCO Principles Regarding the Activities of Credit Rating Agencies, several of the recent regulatory initiatives that impact or will shortly impact credit rating agencies whose ratings are used for regulatory purposes in multiple juris