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Hayne recommends new regulatory overseer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... enforcement responsibility has occurred. The report also noted ASIC should approach enforcement by starting with whether or not a court should determine the consequences of a contravention of the law. Hayne also said the corporate regulator should recognise ...

Royal Commission: ASIC rethinks negotiation tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... entering into an enforceable undertaking. A negotiated resolution would be appropriate if there wasn't a need to pursue court-based enforcement outcomes, he said. But this approach has changed as of late. "We now, as of today, have a process that ...

Former adviser jailed, ASIC posts FY18 stats

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... penalties for misconduct, which it said are more time consuming. In FY18, ASIC said the average time taken to receive a court decision for civil matters has decreased from 27 months to eight months. "This decrease was mainly due to the amount of time ...

Enforceable undertakings are effective: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... a bad rap for being ineffective during the financial services Royal Commission, new research finds the majority of enforceable undertakings deter future misconduct. This is according to a joint study conducted by ASIC and the University of NSW, which ...

Bank-owned advice firm requests ASIC extension

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... of the final report and senior executive attestation," ASIC said. On 13 April 2018, ASIC announced that it had accepted a court-enforceable undertaking from CFPL arising from its fees for no service conduct. As part of undertaking, EY was required to ...

Royal Commission challenges super regulators

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... superannuation entities is sufficient to achieve specific or general deterrence of misconduct. The fact APRA is reluctant to commence court proceedings and take public enforcement action or deal with the "intransigence" of IOOF was not considered effective ...

ASIC defends enforceable undertakings at Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... 2018 and as of today, the judgement is reserved. Going by this 20-month resolution timeline - if ASIC had dragged ANZ to court, the trial would have only started in July. And the case would have been still awaiting resolution as of January 2019. Whereas ...

APRA banned one person in 10 years: Royal Commission

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... has banned one person for not being fit and proper since 2008 - after the law changed requiring APRA take the matter to court. Under examination from counsel assisting Michael Hodge, APRA deputy chair Helen Rowell confirmed the prudential regulator has ...

CBA should have done more: Federal Court

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... its staff. Justice Beach of the Federal Court delivered the assessment in noting the terms of a court enforceable undertaking entered into by the bank and ASIC, after an in-principle agreement was reached between the two in May. The bank entered into ...

Dover advisers turn orphans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... week ASIC formally announced the cancellation of Dover's AFSL, with the regulator accepting a court enforceable undertaking from Dover. It was also announced that Dover founder Terry McMaster will exit the advice industry. ASIC confirmed an investigation ...