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The failed pursuit of Westpac over responsible lending has cost the Australian Securities and Investments Commission nearly $1.9 million before it even accounts for Westp...

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Government agencies, including the Australian Federal Police, have been alerting the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to rorts around early release supera...

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The Australia Financial Complaints Authority may have ‘paused’ processing complaints against insolvent financial firms, but the Australian Securities and Investments Comm...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has confirmed that AMP Limited is facing multiple legal/regulatory issues – citing between “5 and 50”....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has been challenged to hold itself to the same standards it imposes on financial service companies by key members of ...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has broken new ground by successfully pursuing a criminal conviction against Pershing Securities over client money of...

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The chair of a key Parliamentary Committee has raised the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s errors within its controversial SMSF factsheet among errors t...

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The Federal Court has delivered two judgements against Kent Hacker and his business One Stop Global Staffing for contravening the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 and were in ...

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The law, as it stands, around financial services licensing and managed investment schemes was not designed or intended to handle class action litigation funding, accordin...

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IOOF has confirmed the final settlement of a class action brought against it related to a failed prosecution by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority with no cos...

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New regulations, which bizarrely define class actions as ‘managed investment schemes,’ could stymie the compensation payouts of millions of Australians who have been robb...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will not escalate its responsible lending case against Westpac to the High Court, citing the current “challenging eco...

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