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Westpac enters into court enforceable undertaking

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020
... Authority's (APRA) review into Westpac's risk governance, both parties have agreed to a court enforceable undertaking (CEU). The CEU requires Westpac to develop an integrated plan that incorporates all major risk governance remediation programs ...

ASIC takes SMSF accountant to court

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced legal proceedings in the Federal Court against a Gold Coast-based SMSF accountant for failing to comply with an enforceable undertaking. Jenan Oslem Thorne, otherwise known as ...

State Street cops $1.25m fine from AUSTRAC

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... to about $1.25 million. AUSTRAC has five main tools for enforcement action: getting civil penalty orders from the Federal Court, referring to the public prosecutor for possible criminal prosecution, enforceable undertakings, infringement notices and ...

APRA updates enforcement approach

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2019
... actions; acceptance of an enforceable undertaking; disqualifications of responsible officers under the BEAR regime; and court-based enforcement actions initiated by APRA. "Getting 'constructively tough'... also means setting public examples where it ...

Wealth management investigations spike

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... "negotiate" tack the regulator has traditionally taken. Hayne added that ASIC should make it a policy to agree to enforceable undertakings if the entity acknowledges its misconduct as opposed to just acknowledging ASIC's concerns about its conduct ...

Commonwealth FP completes EU compliance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
Commonwealth Financial Planning has complied with ASIC's court enforceable undertaking regarding fees for no service conduct and said it will transition to a new business model. At the end of May, ASIC received an attestation from Commonwealth Financial ...

ASIC finalises EU with HSBC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... undertaking with HSBC Bank Australia and is satisfied the bank met all requirements. HSBC entered the court enforceable undertaking with ASIC on 13 May 2016. The regulator was concerned HSBC provided "potentially deficient advice" on retail structured ...

Accountant banned for bad SMSF advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... accountant has been banned from providing financial services for three years, after agreeing to a court enforceable undertaking with ASIC. Jenan Oslem Thorne - who also goes by the names Cenan Thorne or Cenan Dikmen - was found by the corporate regulator ...

ASIC enforcement must get tough: Commissioner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
... unwillingness to accept that what they had done was wrong. Maintaining that kind of attitude would have been all the harder had a court decided the issue," he said.

OPINION: Post RC, where to now for retail super?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... being called out for weak-kneed enforcement and the recommendation that they be subject to more oversight. The push for more court prosecutions should also hopefully spell the end on those embarrassing Enforceable Undertakings. Pulling all this together ...