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Labor questions Murray, calls for another inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The opposition has called for a further parliamentary inquiry into the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Commonwealth Bank and branded the government's plans to examine financial advice scandals as part of the Financial System ...

Government still mulling response on Senate report

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... review of the financial sector more generally and that will include the role of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and whether more needs to be done to insure that people are protected. "I don't want to overdo the reviews because in ...

APRA announces draft 2014-15 supervisory levies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... Super funds will also need to pay an additional $12 million in levies to cover Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) activities, $7 million for Tax Office activities and $5 million for Department of Human Services activities which look ...

Platform error forces NAB to pay further compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
A review of NAB Wealth's Navigator platform has revealed that the bank made a mistake when calculating compensation to 43,000 clients in 2012. NAB Wealth expects the compensation to be less than $200,000, which adds to the $1.9 million that the bank ...

Virgin Money cops fine for misleading direct insurance ads

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... payment of an infringement notice is not an admission of a contravention of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission Act 2001 consumer protection provisions. ASIC can issue an infringement notice where it has reasonable grounds to believe ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... frequency traders)? It's become big news that Australia's prudential regulator - the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) - has reportedly threatened to clamp down on hyper speed trades. Reuters reports that New York's Attorney General ...

ASIC takes legal action against Mariner over Austock takeover

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has started legal action against listed funds management company Mariner Corporation (Mariner) over its proposed 2012 takeover bid for financial services company Austock Group (Austock). ASIC ...

We did a "pretty good job" in CBA planning case: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) commissioner Greg Tanzer believes that the regulator "did a pretty good job" in dealing with the Commonwealth Financial Planning (CFP) case that prompted a Senate inquiry into the overall performance ...

ASIC bans former authorised representative

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Securities has been permanently banned from providing financial services by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). The regulator found that Phillip Gregory Spark had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. Spark, of Surfers ...

ASFA appoints first COO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... financial officer at Oasis Asset Management. He has also held positions at the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and Treasury. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said: "The new COO role is key to delivering ASFA's business and operational ...