Major financial services house Promina Group has paid a $100,000 fine following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into an alleged failure to comply with the continuous disclosure obligations of the Corporations Act relating to its acquisition by Suncorp Metway.
ASIC announced today that Promina had agreed to pay the fine after being issued with an infringement notice late last month.
ASIC said the payment of the penalty by Promina was the first involving a company with a market capitalisation greater than $1 billion.
The regulator said it had issued the notice because it believed Promina had contravened the continuous disclosure provisions of the Act by failing to inform the Australian Stock Exchange that it had received a proposal from Suncorp Metway to acquire all the ordinary shares in Promina.
