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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned a Perth-based financial services director for six years after the regulator found she demonstrated a lack ...

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A Government review will look into streamlining the education requirements for financial advisers, a ministerial announcement reveals....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it will focus on improving the operation of the breach reporting regime as part of its 2022-23 priorities....

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A former New South Wales financial adviser has been permanently banned by the regulator for engaging in dishonest conduct....

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The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised rates for the fourth time this year....

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ASIC has banned Albert Christen Walters, known as Chris Walters, a former director of a financial services licensee, from performing the functions of an officer and a res...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has imposed its first design and distribution stop orders on three financial firms in response to deficiencies in the...

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has launched a review of the Reserve Bank of Australia to ensure it is the “world’s best central bank”. ...

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A former Sydney financial adviser has been sentenced to three years and two months imprisonment and fined $9,500 for acting dishonestly as a company director and stealing...

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A Victorian authorised representative has been charged with engaging in dishonest conduct in the course of carrying on a financial services business and providing unlicen...

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The Federal Court has found Select AFSL, the subject of a Royal Commission case study, engaged in unconscionable conduct when selling insurance products and provided conf...

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ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against ‘licensee for hire’ company Lanterne Fund Services, as its systems and processes were “wholly de...

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