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ASIC reviews AFSLs over finfluencer concerns

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2026
ASIC has issued warning notices to four finfluencers suspected of providing unlicensed financial advice or engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct, as well as commencing a review of several licensees and their supervision of 15 finfluencers operating ...

Social media influencers charged for promoting shady investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
Reality TV stars from shows like Love Island, Geordie Shore, and The Only Way Is Essex are due to face Court for pushing unauthorised investment schemes on their followers. Love Island's Biggs Chris, Jamie Clayton, Rebecca Gormley and Eva Zapico ...

VanEck failed to disclose influencer's role in ETF launch: SEC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2024
VanEck will pay US$1.75 million ($2.7m) to settle a case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which alleged the investment manager failed to disclose the involvement of an influencer in the launch of an ETF in 2021. In the US, VanEck Associates ...

ACCC blitzes social media influencers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has targeted social media influencers who use misleading testimonials and endorsements. The ACCC said it's "sweeping" more than 100 social media influencers from over 150 consumer tip-offs for ...

Kim Kardashian launches PE firm with Carlyle veteran

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
... generation of consumer and media companies. In addition to leveraging Kardashian's global reach and social media influence, SKKY Partners has the expertise of Jay Sammons who was most recently Carlyle Group's global head of consumer, media and ...

ASIC issues warning to finfluencers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2022
The corporate regulator has issued information for social media influencers who discuss financial products and the licensees who use them, warning they face substantial penalties if their content contravenes financial services law. The information sheet ...

ASIC worried about finfluencers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
ASIC is concerned that Australians are turning to financial influencers for advice because professional financial advice is too expensive. New ASIC chair Joe Longo spoke at the Association of Financial Advisers' annual national conference. Longo said ...

Hollywood actor charged by SEC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... the investment so they could decide whether he may be biased. "Celebrities are not allowed to use their social media influence to tout securities without appropriately disclosing their compensation," Littman said. The SEC's order found Seagal violated ...

Global Merces launches managed funds regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
Asset manager and funds services provider Global Merces has launched a regtech solution that slashes the managed funds application process to five minutes. FUND.ID, a straight through processing system, on-boards new clients using an electronic signature ...

New guide teaches social media best practice

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... in 2015. The series has been curated from advisers' submissions to Financial Standard's annual SMILEYS (Social Media Influence, Leadership and Excellence Scholarship), which Zurich has partnered since 2012. The award recognises and supports advisers ...
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