ASIC

Policy & Regulation

Spaceship Capital chairman Paul Dortkamp has been banned by ASIC for a “fundamental oversight” related to his responsibilities, less than six months after its former CEO ...

Policy & Regulation

The corporate regulator has made its first conviction of an individual for using social media to co-ordinate a ‘pump and dump’ scheme of listed stocks. ...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has released its latest cost recovery implementation statement for 2021/22, providing an estimated levy for financial...

Policy & Regulation

Mark Thomas, former chief executive of van Eyk Research, has pleaded guilty to charges of dishonestly using his position to gain advantage for himself....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings against big four bank ANZ for allegedly misleading customers about the available funds and balances in their credit card acco...

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has cancelled the registration of 10 auditors of self-managed superannuation funds who failed to lodge their annual statements....

Financial planning

The financial advice profession has seen the second week of triple-digit adviser losses, with the industry shrinking by 129 to 16,783 advisers, according to Wealth Data....

Policy & Regulation

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of Perth-based Quattro Capital, the licensee of authorised representatives who were part of Mayfair 101....

People & Products

Former ASIC chair, James Shipton, has joined share trading and superannuation platform Superhero as a non-executive director....

Financial planning

ASIC chair, Joe Longo, has told advisers there is little the corporate regulator can do to improve the financial adviser exam, despite negative feedback from candidates....

Financial planning

Consumer group CHOICE says the timeshare industry is now on notice following the Federal Court’s first-ever decision against a timeshare provider for failing to ensure fi...

Policy & Regulation

Ezzat-Daniel Nesseim has been sentenced to a three-year intensive correctional order for engaging in dishonest conduct and providing falsified documents to ASIC....

Financial planning

A former financial adviser of Tasmania has been charged with 17 offences for falsifying documents to transfer shares. ...

Financial planning

Australian financial services licensees are no longer required to notify ASIC of a professional year arrangement between themselves and a new entrant....

Financial planning

RI Advice may have avoided a penalty for its breach of cybersecurity risks but future breaches could incur a penalty as high as $525 million, according to the regulator....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 3 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

1 week 6 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

5 days 15 hours ago

ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

6 days 18 hours ago