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ASIC enhances whistleblower communication

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... Medcraft said that changes include establishing whistleblower liaison officers within all relevant ASIC teams. The misconduct and breach reporting team and whistleblower liaison officers will soon receive new training on awareness of whistleblower protections ...

BNP Paribas enters EU with ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... an enforceable undertaking with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to potential misconduct involving the Australian Bank Bill Swap Rate (BBSW). In November 2012, BNP reported to ASIC that it had found conduct indicative ...

Banned adviser spent client savings on sports car business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... investors placed in him," ASIC Deputy Chairman Peter Kell said. "This EU also emphasises ASIC's recent focus on targeting misconduct within the SMSF sector. "Setting up an SMSF is one of the most significant steps an investor can take, and where an individual ...

CBA follows ASIC's lead in Senate submission

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2013
... to appropriate standards of advice enter the industry, or move within it between AFSL holders, and for professional misconduct not to be taken fully into account." It states that the "regrettable events" that prompted the inquiry into ASIC's performance ...

ASIC's whistleblowing demands too extreme: ACSA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013

Problem is weak credit law, not us: ASIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... performance on a number of matters after whistleblowers revealed it took the regulator months to act on information about misconduct in the financial planning unit of Commonwealth Bank.

ASIC, "twin peaks" model faces review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
Evidence that it took at least 16 months for ASIC to act on whistleblowers' information about misconduct within the Financial Planning division of Commonwealth Bank became a turning point in the long-running debate around the effectiveness of the current ...

Hybrids must better convey risk: ASIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
... ensure selling messages are not misleading. "But there is more work to be done and we will investigate any reports of misconduct (e.g., misleading promotion or inappropriate comparisons with other products), crackdown on misleading ads, and consider ...

First submissions to ASIC inquiry made public

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... Senate inquiry into ASIC after media reported that it had acted slowly on whistleblower information about cases of misconduct in the financial planning unit of Commonwealth Bank. "We will be looking at any other terms that matter, not only at ASIC's ...

ASIC highlights higher enforcement rate ahead of Senate inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... Services (PIS) dealer group to be independently monitored or releasing new information sheets on dispute resolution and misconduct. ASIC is even looking at wider issues aside from those concerning financial services and is consulting on regulatory relief ...