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Bitcoin now 7th largest global asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
Bitcoin finished 2024 up 123.4%, ranking as the seventh largest global asset by market capitalisation, according to new research from Binance Australia. However, momentum stalled in late December when the US Federal Reserve scaled back its planned 2025 ...

ASX bleeds $41bn from delistings

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
The number of companies that delisted from the ASX in 2024 took $40.5 billion in market capitalisation with them. A total of 78 companies left the ASX in the 12 months to December, netting a total of 2116 entities that remained listed on the exchange. ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
Sanlam Private Wealth, the Australian arm of the South African Sanlam Group, has admitted to breaching licensee obligations by "failing to adequately supervise" its authorised representatives and corporate authorised representatives (CARs), following ...

Traders left scrambling over ASX settlement outage

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... additional volume of settlement and recognised that this may take longer than the usual end-of-day-processing time. As a regulator, ASIC advised that it will review a detailed incident report compiled by the ASX to fully understand the issue. "ASIC and ...

Court sentences Ponzi scheme promoter

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
The Federal Court has sentenced the promoter of Courtenay House for his involvement in one of the country's biggest Ponzi schemes. David Sipina was handed down three years' imprisonment to be served via an intensive correction order after pleading ...

Court finds CFD issuers engaged in 'unconscionable conduct'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
The Federal Court has found that collapsed contracts for difference (CFD) issuer, Union Standard International Group (USG) and two of its former corporate authorised representatives, BrightAU Capital (trading as TradeFred) and Maxi EFX Global AU (trading ...

Superhero Super assets to swell via fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Superhero Super's assets are about to double, as it prepares to merge with MYOB's Slate Super and Simple Choice Super. Members have now been informed that Slate Super and Simple Choice Super - both sub-plans of the Grosvenor Pirie Master Superannuation ...

New tool will streamline regulation: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
The government has released a new tool with the aim to streamline and coordinate regulation in the financial sector. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the tool will help build a more competitive, dynamic and productive economy. "We want to make it simpler ...

Grant Hackett named chief executive of Generation Development Group

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
Generation Development Group has appointed Grant Hackett as chief executive, while a new leader takes charge at Generation Life. Hackett, who will begin in his new role on 1 January 2025, has for the past five years served as Generation Life chief executive. ...

ASIC sues Binance over customer protection failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... Australian retail investors who were misclassified as wholesale clients, representing 83% of its Australian client base. The regulator said retail clients trading financial products - in this case, crypto derivative products - have important rights and ...