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ASIC rubs out financial planner for two years

... with financial services law and having reason to believe he will not comply with these laws in the future. Rosewell's misconduct occurred when he was a representative of Financial Wisdom Limited between July 1992 and July 2004, operating under his own ...

Former financial adviser guilty of 18 criminal charges

... under the Corporations Act, in the Local Court of NSW. Higgins' plea comes after ASIC brought 21 charges of dishonest misconduct against him in May 2004, and after civil litigation by the regulator before that. Higgins was a director of Macquarie Towns ...

ASIC's annual report brings a message of confidence

... cornerstone of ASIC initiatives. Website visits were up 37 per cent, database searches up 23 per cent and reports of misconduct up 7 per cent.

APRA bans MD

... senior manager or agent of a foreign insurer, after the regulatory body found he had been responsible for the company's misconduct. The penalty was issued under the Insurance Act 1973. Specifically, Stephenson was deemed to be accountable for Rural and ...

NAB's Irish bank ordered to pay $110 mln in costs

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2004
... investigation into National Irish Bank (NIB), which is wholly owned by NAB. The report said there were clear findings of misconduct in the 1988 to 1998 period with respect to NIB\'s and NIBFS\'s (National Irish Bank Financial Services Ltd) participation ...

Former HIH executive pleads guilty to criminal charges

... Howard, a former senior executive of the collapsed HIH Insurance group has today pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal misconduct, brought to the Court by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Howard appeared before Justice ...

ACCC plans to approve mortgage industry rules

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2003
... disciplinary rules set standards for industry conduct and a process for an independent tribunal to hear allegations of misconduct against members. ACCC deputy chair Louise Sylvan said the rules would likely result in a benefit to the general public. ...

Jail, rather than fines, needed for corporate crime, says lawyer

... $9 billion business empire was a "one-off". "Alan Bond was one of the few business leaders who had been jailed for misconduct but his case tended to be regarded as a one-off' with a difference," Mr Barrett said. "It will not disappear until prominent ...

ASIC made record enforcements in 2003-4: report

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2003
... companies, and 39 people from offering financial services, and disciplined eight company auditors and liquidators for misconduct. ASIC chairman David Knott said the regulator responded strongly to Australia's corporate failures and market abuses, including ...

ASIC clears Australian investment banking analysts of serious misconduct

... regulatory requirements. "The review indicates that Australia is unlikely to have experienced the extent and seriousness of misconduct that occurred in the United States," Ian Johnston, ASIC's executive director of financial services regulation, said. ...