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Adviser sentenced over accessing client accounts

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2023
... was convicted on one count of providing a financial service on behalf of a person who carries on a financial services business while unauthorised to do so and one count of engaging in dishonest conduct in relation to a financial service. At the time ...

ASIC bans Gold Coast businessman

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023
... over-the-counter contracts for difference (CFD) broker. Further, the regulator said Finerty carried on a financial services business without an Australian financial services licence and engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. ASIC said between January ...

Former planner pleads guilty to dishonest conduct

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2023
... financial planner has pleaded guilty to three counts of engaging in dishonest conduct whilst running a financial services business. ASIC found that between February and March 2015, Bradley Grimm engaged in dishonest conduct on five occasions and transferred ...

Diverger acquires cyber technology firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2023
Diverger has acquired Priority Networking, an outsourced managed technology service provider with a network of 130 accounting and financial advice firms. Priority Networking ensures the technology infrastructure of firms is operating efficiently, compliant ...

AAT upholds AFSL cancellation

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023
... superannuation rollover business. In March 2020, ASIC cancelled the AFS licence of the Gold Coast-based financial services business following concerns it had breached several of its legal obligations, including that its representatives were not adequately ...

Former adviser sees ban reduced

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... originally banned in June 2021 from providing financial services and performing any function in a financial services business for a period of six years. Instead, the AAT reduced the ban to five years, as well as reducing the scope of the banning to the ...

Federal Court finds against finfluencer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
The Federal Court determined Tyson Scholz, known as ASX Wolf, was running an unlicensed financial services business for over a year, including providing courses on share trading and recommending stocks on Instagram. The court handed its decision down ...

ASIC accepts EU firm from advice firm

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2022
... responsible manager Adam Smith. Lasarith, trading as Succession Matters, will cease operating its financial services business under its AFSL and commence the process to cancel it by next February. Smith has also agreed to undertake further professional ...

ASIC bans married duo from providing financial services

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2022
... removing money from a deceased client's account. An ASIC delegate found that the couple carried on a financial services business without holding an AFS licence from July 2015 until May 2021. Richard Marshall advised clients of his company, RT Marshall ...

Former Courtenay House director pleads guilty

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2022
... was put towards the scheme. Iervasi also pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying on an unlicensed financial services business, as neither of the Courtenay House companies held an AFSL. The liquidators of Courtenay House Capital Trading have distributed ...