Penalties for financial planners who breach the law are not severe enough, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission believes....
ASIC chair Greg Medcraft emphasises regulator’s enforcement efforts and states does best it can with resources to hand....
The financial services industry will pay $30 million less to be regulated after the Federal Government released details of the levies that it will be charged to fund the ...
Two former Sydney brokers have been convicted of fraud following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has responded to its grilling at a Senate Committee by restating its compliance with the inquiry’s requests for more information. ...
The Senate Committee reviewing ASIC has lambasted ASIC and CommFP and signalled further quizzing of compensation arrangements....
The FPA has welcomed ASIC and dealer group support for moves to separate product sales and advice....
ASIC grants relief to super fund’s advisory arm to reduce advisor exposure to personal liability....
The ATO has confirmed the television advertising campaign launched to support Labor’s superannuation changes cost $16.56 million before it was terminated by the Abbott Go...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Victorian finance broker Kieu Thi-Thanh Huynh from carrying out credit activities after...
The FPA’s 10-point plan to separate advice from product sales urges that the terms ‘commission’ and ‘general advice’ be removed from the planning industry’s lexicon....
Sentry Financial Services to write to SMSF clients after ASIC surveillance of corporate authorised representative...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a trader employed at Westpac Institutional Bank for creating fictitious trading entries and a false...
An Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) review supports the rule changes affecting dark trading made last year....
The FPA signals a 10-point plan which would see product-related advice subject to regulation and salespeople precluded from being called financial planners/advisers....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...