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ASIC cracks down on CFDs, OTC derivatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
... issuers to comply with the design and distribution obligations. There are currently over 60 Australian financial services licensees that offer complex, high-risk OTC derivatives to retail clients in the form of CFDs, crypto derivatives, options, and ...

AMP fined $24m for charging deceased customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... Justice Hespe found that all four subsidiaries contravened their overarching obligations as Australian financial services licensees to act efficiently, honestly and fairly. It was during the 2018 Hayne Royal Commission that the egregious conduct came ...

ASIC issues warning over brokers' high-risk offers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... inappropriate offers of securities lending arrangements to retail clients," Press said. "Australian financial services licensees may be liable for substantial civil penalties if they do not do all things necessary to ensure the financial services covered ...

ASIC releases estimate cost recovery levies for 2021/22

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... ASIC stated the approximate budgeted cost recovery would be $24.01 million across 2759 Australian financial services licensees. This figure is down from $25.76 million in 2020/21. Constituting a much smaller cost recovery amount of $500,000, licensees ...

Breach reporting guidance released

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
... with the notify, investigate and remediate obligations sets out further guidance on how Australian financial services licensees can meet their obligations, set to commence on October 1. ASIC explains how advisers must notify affected clients of a reportable ...

AMP sued for charging dead clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... out. AMP and the aforementioned subsidiaries contravened their overarching obligations as Australian financial services licensees to act efficiently, honestly and fairly, the regulator said. "ASIC further alleges that the AMP companies' conduct demonstrated ...

Research reveals true value of advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... outweighs the costs," the report found. IOOF chief advice officer Darren Whereat said: "Australian financial services licensees must commit to supporting and helping advisers deliver advice to clients in an efficient way that not only makes advice practice ...

ASIC releases fee consent instrument

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... advice fees as part of an ongoing fee arrangement. The second means ASIC will require Australian financial services licensees or authorised representatives to provide clients with disclosures on lack of independence where they would breach section 923A ...

New MDA offering launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... market changes and in a RG179 compliant manner. Lifestyle said the pilot is one of the only Australian financial services licensees to offer this service to their authorised representatives. Lifestyle managing director Scott Heathwood said Lifestyle ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... obligations, focused on whether the fee disclosure documents, provided by 30 randomly selected Australian financial services licensees, provided to clients complies with the law. The regulator required the licensees to produce samples of fee disclosure ...
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