INVESTIGATION
Financial planning
The corporate regulator enacted a 50 per cent increase in the number of investigations and a 20 per cent increase in civil enforcement proceedings....
Financial planning
Compliance firm Cowell Clarke has shared information on how licensees should investigate a possible reportable situation at their firm and when to tell the regulator....
Funds management
Macquarie Group Limited has confirmed that German authorities dealing with a 2011 short-selling issue have designated as suspects around 60 of the company’s current and f...
Financial planning
The authority has increased the bank’s capital requirement to $1 billion and will focus on directors and senior managers that breached the Banking Act in relation to the ...
Funds management
The fund is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for an undisclosed issue, according to its responsible entity, Equity Trustees....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is seeking court backing to force law firm Clayton Utz to produce documents at the heart of fee for no service allega...
Policy & Regulation
The competition regulator said it expects the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions to lay criminal cartel charges against ANZ and the bank’s group treasurer Rick ...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted it does not have enough information to know about inappropriate payments attaching to direct life sales....
Financial planning
A senior Australian Securities and Investments Commission executive has confirmed the likelihood of the regulator examining financial advice provided by industry funds, b...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has admitted it has never specifically investigated advice provided by industry superannuation funds....
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought final orders in continued Federal Court proceedings against companies associated with binary trading....
Financial planning
An ASIC review of allegations against IOOF has substantially cleared it on insider trading allegations but has imposed a comprehensive review by an external compliance co...
Policy & Regulation
Litigation funders have backed moves to pursue legal action against failed stockbroking firm, BBY....
Financial planning
The corporate regulator has ordered people under investigation to pay its investigation costs and expenses if they are convicted of the offence, or face a penalty....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...