ASIC
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has confirmed the number of breaches that were reported to it by another licensee following its exclusion from an earlier data report....
Funds management
The Federal Court has found NAB engaged in unconscionable conduct by continuing to charge customers over $350,000 in periodic payment fees even though it was aware of the...
Financial planning
Having already enacted 11 interim stop orders regarding target market determinations, the industry should not expect ASIC to slow down and using templates could be one ca...
Policy & Regulation
Assistant Treasurer and minister for financial services, Stephen Jones, has welcomed the Senate inquiry into ASIC investigation and enforcement....
Financial planning
The Government has delayed financial adviser registration from January until 1 July, 2023 with registration to open in Q2 2023....
Policy & Regulation
The Senate Economics References committee has published the terms of reference for its inquiry into ASIC enforcement and welcomed submissions....
People & Products
The former responsible manager of over the counter derivatives provider, Sirius Financial Markets, has been banned by ASIC for eight years....
Financial planning
Questions have been raised why reporting by other licensees was excluded from the regulator’s first breach publication and whether it is taking place....
Financial planning
There is over-reliance by licensees on ‘human error’ with over 5,000 reports stating that as a cause of a breach when the fault may lie in their systems and processes, ac...
Policy & Regulation
There were almost 900 breach reports made to ASIC regarding financial advice activities in the first nine months of its reportable situations regime. ...
Financial planning
ASIC has lodged an appeal against the Federal Court’s ruling in favour of Commonwealth Bank and Colonial First State. ...
Funds management
Big Four bank ANZ has been penalised $25 million for failing to provide certain benefits it had agreed to give to customers and over $211 million will be remediated to af...
Funds management
Big Four bank ANZ has been penalised $25 million for failing to provide certain benefits it had agreed to give to customers and over $211 million will be remediated to af...
Funds management
The largest-ever penalty for breaches of Market Integrity Rules has been handed down by the Federal Court to Commonwealth Securities and Australian Investment Exchange. ...
Funds management
ASIC has made an interim stop order preventing offering or distribution of Westlawn Income fund because of a non-compliant target market determination....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...