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Financial Conduct Authority cracks down on finfluencers, firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
... promotions. We've seen firms using influencers that may not be appropriate for the promotion of complex products such as CFDs. Firms should ensure the influencer understands the products or services they are promoting and how to be compliant in their ...

Financial services class actions surge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... earlier a class action was filed against IC Markets for consumer harm caused by offering retail investors the ability to trade CFDs. In October 2023, a class action was filed against BT Funds Management as trustee of BT Super, while IG Markets was the ...

Class action filed against IC Markets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... Now filed, the action alleges IC Markets has engaged in misleading, deceptive and unconscionable conduct in its supply of CFDs to retail investors, leading investors to suffer losses or damages by acquiring highly risky and unsuitable financial products. ...

More than $17m paid in CFD-related remediation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023
... 2023. The further $4.3 million was paid to more than 1500 retail clients across the other seven providers because of issuing CFDs that exceeded the permitted leverage ratio limits. Some clients received tens of thousands of dollars, while others received ...

Piper Alderman investigates second CFD class action

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2023
... Markets). The action is on behalf of retail investors who claim to have collectively lost hundreds of millions of dollars trading CFDs between September 2017 and March 2021. Funded by global ESF and litigation finance business Woodsford, the action alleges ...

ASIC cracks down on CFDs, OTC derivatives

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
... 60 Australian financial services licensees that offer complex, high-risk OTC derivatives to retail clients in the form of CFDs, crypto derivatives, options, and other derivative arrangements. To date, ASIC has issued 10 interim stop orders and commenced ...

Saxo APAC asset management lead exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
... as it was concerned its target market determinations were deficient, preventing from issuing new contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail clients.

Veteran adviser cops permanent ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... also made false and misleading representations regarding the level of risk involved in trading contracts for difference (CFDs) and promoted trading courses for CFDs when he was unlicensed in dealing in derivatives. ASIC determined that Cuthbertson "failed ...

ASIC looking to send message with eToro action

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
... DDO. "That, of course, will protect other investors from exposure to these high-risk derivatives," Court said. She labelled CFDs as "high-risk, complex and volatile investment products." "ASIC has long had concerns about these products, which were infamously ...

eToro sued by ASIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2023
... period 5 October 2021 to 29 July 2023. eToro AUS is now operating with a revised target market determination in place for CFDs." ASIC considers that eToro's conduct is likely to have resulted in a significant number of retail clients being exposed ...
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