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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a former Provident Capital director from providing financial services for two years, after finding he had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in re...

Financial planning

Payday lender Money3 will refund $100,000 to consumers following breach concerns from ASIC, despite finding it did not violate its responsible lending obligations....

Life/Risk

ASIC has forced One Big Switch to review its legal compliance after the group operated without a licence....

Financial planning

Banned Queensland-based planning principal, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, will face 34 charges relating to fraud following an ASIC investigation....

Funds management

Large scale asset managers have not added to financial instability but weathered the financial crisis well according to ASIC and IOSCO chair, Greg Medcraft....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has lost a legal action to penalise Mariner and past and current directors relating to a proposed takeover offer for Austock....

Life/Risk

ASIC signals that despite the industry’s position responding to Trowbridge, it is continuing to pursue enforcement over life/risk misconduct....

Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator has a $50 million war chest that he’s ready to use against banks, planners and other miscreants....

Financial planning

A New Zealand man who spent 60 months imprisoned in the US has been permanently banned from providing financial services by ASIC after offering unlicensed financial servi...

Policy & Regulation

The Auditor-General has given ASIC a pass mark on how it handles EUs, agreeing it does not favour the big end of town but urging more transparency around negotiated outco...

Financial planning

A banned former Westpac Bank Finance Manager will appear before Southport Magistrate Court next month to face fraud charges. ...

Funds management

Clients of suspended stockbrokers BBY Ltd will be transferred to other brokerages after the company entered voluntary administration last week....

Financial planning

ASIC has cancelled Melbourne-based advice group, TCI Capital Advisers’ AFSL over compliance concerns....

Financial planning

ASIC and the Federal Treasury have been told to get real about the time needed to implement significant legislative and regulatory change in financial services....

Financial planning

The corporate regulator has launched a money toolkit tailor-made for women, as part of its push for financial literacy....

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