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ASIC bans Gold Coast businessman

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023
... 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 2020 to roughly the end of December 2021 ...

ASIC FAR to display adviser QTRP status

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... generally display that these financial advisers can provide tax (financial) advice services, it said. "Australian Financial Services (AFS) licensees who authorise financial advisers who are not taken to be QTRPs will need to update the FAR to record ...

ASIC case against Commonwealth Bank dismissed

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... deceptive conduct, made false or misleading representations and contravened its obligations as an Australian financial services licensee by incorrectly charging monthly access fees to customers. The regulator alleged that, between June 2010 and September ...

ASIC suspends FTX Australia's licence

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2022
ASIC has suspended the Australian financial services licence of embattled crypto company FTX. FTX entered voluntary administration on November 11, and the AFSL is suspended until 15 May 2023. However, for the time being, FTX can continue to provide ...

Another ban for Sirius Financial

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2022
... According to ASIC, Sirius Financial (trading as 'Trade360') acted unconscionably and breached its Australian financial services licence obligations when it failed to address the conduct of Toyga Media (Toyga), an off-shore call centre it hired to source ...

Susan Buckley to leave QIC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2022
... and career success throughout her tenure with us and is highly regarded and respected across the Australian financial services industry. We wish her all the best as she embarks on this next chapter." Rampa said Buckley will work with Morris on a comprehensive ...

GSFM names key account manager

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2022
... as well as looking for new growth opportunities. Koolman has over 15 years of experience in the Australian financial services sector, he joins from Arnott Capital, where he held the position of investment specialist. Before that, he was an institutional ...

ASIC issues warning over brokers' high-risk offers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2022
... unfair or inappropriate offers of securities lending arrangements to retail clients," Press said. "Australian financial services licensees may be liable for substantial civil penalties if they do not do all things necessary to ensure the financial services ...

FSC analyses super, advice developments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2022
... advice and general advice). Moreover, the retention of the Life Insurance Framework, retention of the Australian Financial Services Licence and support for principles-based regulation were also other areas of alignment. Meanwhile, the FSC took aim at ...

Victorian AR charged with providing unlicensed advice

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2022
... Between November 2017 and December 2020, Bhandari was an AR of The Australian Dealer Group Pty Ltd, an Australian financial services (AFS) licensee that helped consumers find lost superannuation and consolidate their superannuation accounts. For the ...