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Finfluencers bridge financial advice gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... own AFS licence or obtaining status as an authorised rep or corporate authorised representative of an AFS licensee or Australian Credit Licensee." While this might seem like a small pool, their breadth and depth of influence is deep. James launched his ...

ASIC cans Binance AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... protections under financial services laws in Australia, including access to external dispute resolution through the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Our targeted review of these matters is ongoing, including focus on the extent of consumer ...

New Australian digital assets bill to regulate crypto

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023
... minimum reserve standards, requiring issuers to hold the full amount of their face value liabilities in accounts with an Australian ADI. Further, the Bill requires banks and financial institutions to disclose their use and management of foreign CBDCs ...

ASIC bans mortgage broker for eight years

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2023
... superannuation into self-managed superannuation funds. ASIC also found that Childs failed to follow through with an Australian Financial Complaints Authority determination following a complaint from a Think Money client. Childs played a "significant ...

ASIC bans Gold Coast businessman

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023
... 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, Finerty ...

FSC releases claims handling standard for super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2023
... public or extended public offer licence to operate a RSE under the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993. Australian Ethical Investment, BT Financial Group, Challenger, Clearview Wealth, Colonial First State Investments, Equity Trustees Superannuation ...

AAT overturns ban on former Spaceship chair

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2023
... Spaceship chief executive Paul Bennetts was also banned in 2022 after he was found to have dishonestly obtained his Australian Institute of Company Directors qualification by having a subordinate employee - a compliance officer - complete his assessments ...

Expand access to financial services: AUSTRAC

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2022
... this access." AUSTRAC developed this guidance in consultation with a broad range of industry groups, including the Australian Banking Association (ABA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. ABA chief executive Anna Bligh said it's ...

ASIC suspends, cancels AFSLs

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2022
... suspension of QFML follows the ban of its managing director Peter Gribble for failing to pay $2.5 million in Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) determinations. According to ASIC, QFML also didn't have the required professional indemnity ...

Colonial First State adds 17 new funds to FirstChoice platform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2022
... funds available through FirstChoice are, CFS Thrive+ Sustainable Growth, Janus Henderson Tactical Income, Western Asset Australian Bond, T.Rowe Price Dynamic Global Bond, FirstRate Cash on FirstChoice Wholesale Investments, AB Managed Volatility Equities ...