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KPMG expands advice remediation team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... ongoing service fees after it failed to provide ASIC with an attestation and acceptable final report for an Enforceable Undertaking it entered in April last year for fees-for-no-service. The final report was set to determine whether the business had ...

ASIC finalises EU with HSBC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
ASIC has completed an enforceable undertaking with HSBC Bank Australia and is satisfied the bank met all requirements. HSBC entered the court enforceable undertaking with ASIC on 13 May 2016. The regulator was concerned HSBC provided "potentially deficient ...

Accountant banned for bad SMSF advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... accountant has been banned from providing financial services for three years, after agreeing to a court enforceable undertaking with ASIC. Jenan Oslem Thorne - who also goes by the names Cenan Thorne or Cenan Dikmen - was found by the corporate regulator ...

ASIC enforcement must get tough: Commissioner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2019
ASIC's enforcement arm must wrangle more muscle but it should be separated from the regulator's day-to-day dealings with its subjects, the Royal Commission final report said. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said when ASIC identifies misconduct, its starting ...

OPINION: Post RC, where to now for retail super?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
After a damning report card by the Royal Commission, the big question is where to now for retail superannuation and its advisory network ecosystem? At least we know what's not part of the answer: the status quo. Retail superannuation may not be ...

Hayne recommends new regulatory overseer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... recognise the relevance and importance of general and specific deterrence in deciding whether to accept an enforceable undertaking. Additionally, Hayne called on ASIC to separate enforcement staff from non-enforcement related contact with regulated entities. ...

Commonwealth FP fails to meet EU obligations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... failed to provide ASIC with an attestation and acceptable final report from Ernst & Young as part of the Enforceable Undertaking entered in April 2018 and in regards to fees for no service. As a result, CFPL is now required to immediately stop charging ...

ASIC suspends online broker AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... Halifax's risk management and compliance following six months of surveillance. The regulator accepted an enforceable undertaking from Halifax at the time, which required it to put in place a plan to rectify the deficiencies.

Royal Commission: ASIC rethinks negotiation tactics

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... was the Superannuation Consumers' Centre benefitting from a $1.25 million payment as a result of an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) ASIC entered into with CBA and ANZ following an investigation that found they missold super products. Shipton said the ...

Former adviser jailed, ASIC posts FY18 stats

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
A former Professional Investment Services financial adviser has been jailed for dishonesty following an ASIC investigation. The former PIS financial adviser and representative Satvir Singh Birk was sentenced to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment ...