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Former AFSL director banned

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of Olive Financial Markets following concerns that it had not complied with its obligations as an AFS licensee and that it was likely to contravene its obligations in the future. Olive Financial applied to the Australian ...

Foreign fund managers granted licensing relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... new regime take place over two years to ensure a smooth transition. New foreign providers may apply for a foreign AFS license from April 1.

Former licensee boss banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
ASIC has said the former chief executive of Spectrum Wealth Advisers had a poor understanding of his obligations and failed to ensure advisers complied with the law, banning him over his involvement in the licensee's numerous failures. Mark Schroeder ...

Half of all AFSL applications approved

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
ASIC revealed just 53% of AFSL applications received this year were approved. ASIC received approximately 2491 applications in 2018-2019 - 64% of AFS licences, 27% for credit licences and 9% relating to professional auditor registrations. In the report ...

ASIC suspends Melbourne-based AFSL

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
ASIC has suspended the AFSL of Melbourne-based financial services provider Australian Golden Securities until May 2020. ASIC said the licence has been suspended over concerns the company is not meeting its obligations as an AFS licensee. The regulator ...

New tool launches to help FASEA code compliance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
With less than 20 business days until the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority Code of Ethics comes into effect, some businesses are seeing opportunity. One such organisation is MyNextAdvice, which has launched a solution to help licensees ...

AFSLs show widespread non-compliance: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
AFS licensees are consistently failing to provide correct information about advice fees to clients and are potentially still charging fees long after ongoing fee arrangements have been terminated, ASIC has found. The report, Compliance with fee disclosure ...

FASEA chief to provide update

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
The chief executive of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority will address delegates at the FPA Congress, with an update expected. FASEA chief executive Stephen Glenfield will speak as part of a regulatory update, with Julie Berry from ...

ASIC outlines Code of Ethics expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has outlined what it expects of advice licensees in regards to enforcing the Code of Ethics, saying it will not monitor or enforce individual advisers' compliance. The regulator said under the Corporations ...

Registration deadline extended: ASIC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2019
ASIC has told Australian financial services licensees that they will not be in breach of the law because their financial advisers were not able to register with ASIC-approved compliances schemes. The original deadline for registering was 1 January 2020. ...