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Advisory firm directors may challenge ASIC ban

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... Capital. The clients have now been compensated. The financial services regulator has also extracted an enforceable undertaking from financial planner Kilara Financial Solutions, who recommended retail investors switch their superannuation holding into ...

Trio director offers EU to APRA

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... Limited (Trio) director, Natasha Beck, has acknowledge her part in the firm's collapse and offered an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), which it has accepted. Faced with a possible disqualification for ...

Rogue trader banned for four years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... through a pooled fund. Andrew Mark Perkin must not provide any financial products or services under the enforceable undertaking signed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Perkin, 51, traded foreign currencies from a pooled ...

UBS wealth mgmt to review compliance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
ASIC has signed an enforceable undertaking (EU) from UBS Wealth Management Australia Ltd to review its compliance culture and frameworks and fix past compliance failures. The fund manager didn't provide statements of advice to 764 retail clients invested ...

Treasury proposes mandatory governance principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2010
Treasury is examining whether the ASX's corporate governance principles should extend to all 500 companies in the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index instead of the top 300 companies as part of a broader review of the audit industry. The Commonwealth Treasury's ...

Westpoint auditors get just desserts

ASIC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
Three KPMG partners have been banned as registered auditors for periods ranging from nine to 24 months following ASIC's crackdown on their roles in the Westpoint collapse. ASIC has accepted enforceable undertakings (EUs) from three partners of KPMG's ...

ASIC approves Opes Prime settlement

ASIC RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... the directors of Opes Prime, and the ANZ bank. ASIC announced in March 2009 that it has put in place an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) from the ANZ in relation to ASIC's investigation, arising from the Opes Prime collapse, into ANZ Custodial Services ...

AUSTRAC to probe anti-money laundering breaches

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
... result, the Barclays Bank PLC's Australian office located on George street Sydney, voluntarily agreed to an enforceable undertaking by AUSTRAC and continues to work with the government body by releasing relevant facts and material to the AUSTRAC chief ...

ASIC catches short sale bungle

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... buy one million Finders Mines share once he realised the firm did not own any. The regulator accepted an enforceable undertaking from Droga Capital and the firm's sole director which require the investment business to implement policies and procedures ...

APRA audit adds to bottomline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... be formalised and documented. If an institution fails an audit, Alexandratos said, APRA could impose an enforceable undertaking on the business, which costs a lot of time and money to rectify. "APRA is getting better at identifying areas of concern ...