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AAT upholds ASIC adviser ban

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld a decision to permanently ban a Sydney finance broker. Shiv Sahay of Lidcombe NSW, was permanently banned from providing financial services and engaging in credit activity following an ASIC investigation ...

Synchron announces LIF tech and referral arrangements

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... appropriate that Synchron advisers be afforded the opportunity to satisfy that need by referring clients on to a licensed finance broker and be remunerated for it. The arrangement with Advantedge Financial Solutions will facilitate that."

ASIC permanently bans former finance broker

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned former Victorian finance broker Rudy Frugtniet after he provided misleading information and lacked full disclosure on a credit licence application. Frugtniet is a former ...

Former finance broker convicted for fraud

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
A former finance broker has been convicted of two fraud charges, following an investigation from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Riyanka Puteri Shiraz, of Canterbury, New South Wales, admitted to using the identities of ...

ASIC cancels two more AFSL licences

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of a Parramatta insurance broker and of Banksia Mortgages. The Parramatta-based WD Gelle Insurance & Finance Brokers' licence ...

Finance broker pleads guilty to car scam identity theft

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
A former finance broker has admitted to stealing the identities of former clients so she could buy two cars, sell them to acquaintances and keep the cash from the sale. Riyanka Puteri Shiraz, of Canterbury, New South Wales, appeared before Sydney's ...

Finance broker gets 6 month ban

STAFF WRITERS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
ASIC has banned finance broker Alexander Dryden of West Croydon, South Australia, from engaging in credit activities and suspended his Australian credit license for six months. ASIC surveillance found Mr Dryden, who had been trading as 'Gryphon Financial' ...

Perth broker gets 3 year ban for falsifying documents

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
A Perth-based finance broker has been banned from financial services for three years after an investigation found he falsified documents to support the loan applications of his clients without their knowledge. Mathew David Schmelzkopf, of Kelmscott ...

Count enters asset finance market

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
Count Financial's 350-firm network can now offer expanded asset finance services to small business clients after forming an alliance with Centrepoint Finance. Starting from 3 April, Count members will have access a higher number of asset finance lenders ...

Count buys stakes in Victorian and NSW practices

PRESS RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
Count Financial subsidiary, Countplus, has bought stakes in two more businesses for just under $1 million in cash and shares. Countplus bought a 25 per cent share in Melbourne-based Kidmans Partners, an accounting and financial services firm with a ...