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Court finds CFD issuers engaged in 'unconscionable conduct'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... Global AU (trading as EuropeFX), engaged in systemic unconscionable conduct as well as a raft of other contraventions of the law between 2018 and 2020. The court heard customers of EuropeFX and TradeFred lost over $83 million during the period of the ...

M&A and IPO the 'gamechangers' for 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Providing an outlook for the new year, Fidelity International portfolio manager Casey McLean said M&A and IPO activities will likely increase, noting there are a list of companies anticipated to make the foray into the public markets across the US and ...

Government bolsters funding for payday super reforms

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... consequences for deliberate and repeated failures. SMC deputy chief executive Georgia Brumby said passing payday super into law is crucial to ensuring the millions of Australis who are short-changed get every dollar of super they're owed. "Unpaid super ...

ASIC sues Binance over customer protection failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... were adequately trained and competent. "Many digital assets and related products are financial products under the current law," Court said. "We are consulting with the sector to improve regulatory clarity, and ASIC will continue to use the full range ...

TPG co-founder David Bonderman dies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... decision'." Bonderman graduated from the University of Washington in 1963 with a major in Russian studies and went on to Harvard Law School where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1966. While at Harvard, he won a fellowship that took him to Egypt and the ...

Crypto operator to fork out millions after court ruling

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... that Bit Trade continued offering the product, despite knowing or having ought to have known, it was likely in breach of the law. "... Bit Trade's contraventions were serious and motivated by a desire to maximise revenue," he said. ASIC chair Joe ...

Engage Financial launches practice management firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... Engage Financial said the new partner firm is designed specifically for financial advisory, accounting, mortgage brokerage, and law firms. The company aims to transform leadership teams and business operations, enabling clients to achieve measurable ...

Settlement reached in Caddick class action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... action filed in the Federal Court against auditors for SMSFs run by Melissa Caddick. The class action - led by Melbourne-based law firm Mackay Chapman - was filed on behalf of 21 original group members. Just prior to settlement another 10 joined the ...

Treasury reappoints 24 members to FSCP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024
... across the fields of business, administration of companies, financial markets, financial products and financial services, law, economics, accounting, taxation and credit activities and credit services. The reappointed members are Shabnam Amirbeaggi ...

Super framework, SMSFs conducive to financial abuse: Inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... perpetrators in no way should financially benefit from the death of victim-survivors. It went on to suggest amending the Family Law Act 1975 as the division of superannuation falls in property settlements under this remit. The committee urged lawmakers ...