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Former Big Un executive smacked with insider trading charge

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2023
... its crackdown on financial misconduct related to Big Un, last year, ASIC convicted Graham Swan, the company's former auditor. He was found guilty of failing to comply with auditing standards during his examination of Big Un.

Super funds consider future of PwC contracts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2023
... first superannuation fund to freeze any new contracts with PwC, a spokesman said. PwC is AustralianSuper's independent auditor, according to the fund's 2022 annual report. "AustralianSuper is concerned with the ongoing revelations around PwC ...

Collapsed trading house hit with charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2023
... D'Amore and Kirby are also alleged to have made a false statement or submitted false or misleading documents to ASIC and an auditor of Berndale about overseas bank accounts containing Berndale funds. Berndale's Australian financial services licence ...

Bank of Queensland slapped with EU

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... to ensure it is completed within agreed timeframes. As part of the enforceable undertaking, BOQ will engage an external auditor who will report back to AUSTRAC, it added. AUSTRAC acknowledged that the action coincides with separate regulatory activity ...

Former fund manager director convicted

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... been convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment for falsifying documents and providing false information to an auditor. Grofski, whose financial services licence was cancelled by ASIC in 2020, was first charged for dishonest conduct in May 2021. ...

ASIC grants MSC Trustees new powers

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
The corporate watchdog has bestowed MSC Trustees new powers to act as a trustee for debt instruments such as debentures, notes and bonds issued by public companies, a first for an Australian corporate trustee. MSC Trustees is the first trustee firm ...

Former Big Un chief charged with insider trading

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2023
... prosecuted by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions following a referral from ASIC. Last year, Big Un former auditor Graham Rothesay Swan also came under ASIC attention. Swan was convicted for failing to conduct the 2017 company audit in compliance ...

Government acts to regulate crypto assets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2023
Crypto asset licensing and custody reforms by the government are targeting subsets outside the financial services framework. In a joint statement, treasurer Jim Chalmers and assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones said ...

SMSF auditors in hot water

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2022
... disqualified three SMSF auditors from being registered, imposed additional conditions on the registration of one SMSF auditor, and cancelled the registration of two SMSF auditors. Five of these SMSF auditors were referred to ASIC by the ATO. Of the five ...

Hostplus defies inflation fears

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2022
One of Sam Sicilia's pet themes is that the forces of technology are deflationary, and they will inevitably kick in to be a dominant influence. The Hostplus investment chief has been on this tear for some time and hasn't changed his mind despite ...