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Westpac to pay $9.5m for Corps Act breaches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... During a trial in April 2019, Westpac admitted that, as Sinha's responsible licensee, it had contravened the Corporations Act but contested the exact number of contraventions and the penalty that should be applied. The court found Sinha failed to ...

18 misconceptions about FASEA code

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... confusion, Patterson suggested FASEA might consider limiting the relevant reading to just pertinent sections of the Corporations Act. Patterson refers to himself as "a lawyer with no dog in the race" and blames comments by advice industry bodies and ...

ASIC drags NAB to court for fees-for-no-service

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... Commission. The corporate regulator is seeking to find NAB made several thousand contraventions of the ASIC Act and the Corporations Act between December 2013 and February 2019 by engaging in fee-for-no-service conduct by not providing financial planning ...

ASIC takes action against TAL over RC case

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... Hayne. The corporate regulator has filed a civil case against TAL, alleging the insurance giant breached the ASIC Act, Corporations Act and Insurance Contracts Acts in avoiding an income protection claim in 2014. According to ASIC's allegations ...

Super sector to dominate by 2034

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... investment decisions as not all assets can be invested long-term," it said. The report forecasted changes to the Corporations Act and the financial advice sector in general. "The legislation is prescriptive and has not kept up with changes in technology ...

Pershing Securities breaches client money obligations

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... alleged that the company failed to comply with client money obligations between June 2016 and December 2018. Under the Corporations Act, client money is defined as "money paid to a financial services licensee in connection with a financial service that ...

APRA slaps extra conditions on Avanteos

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... assisting Michael Hodge told the Royal Commission Avanteos' may have engaged in misconduct that breached the Corporations and SIS Acts. APRA said it had identified "several other" RSE licensees that may have charged fees to the accounts of deceased ...

ASIC launches action against AFSL, director

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... Theta and Mr Marie for various alleged breaches of the responsible entity and director's duties provisions of the Corporations Act 2001, including that they failed to exercise appropriate care and diligence when issuing each of the relevant Product Disclosure ...

Bill to defer adviser education standards tabled

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2019
... was circulated by the authority of Michael Sukkar, minister for housing and Assistant Treasurer. It will amend the Corporations Act to defer the transitional timeframes for existing providers of financial advice to comply with the new education and training ...

ASIC bans direct life cold calling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... people into buying life insurance." The change has been brought to effect through ASIC's modification power in the Corporations Act, with a new legal instrument - ASIC Corporations (Hawking-Life Risk Insurance and Consumer Credit Insurance) Instrument ...