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25 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-324MR Financial firms yet to join Australian Financial Complaints Authority must act immediately

More than 35,000 financial firms required to join the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) have now joined the scheme.   There are more ...

25 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-323MR ASIC to cancel Austplan’s AFS licence

ASIC will cancel the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Austplan Pty Ltd (Austplan) effective from 25 November 2018 by agreement with the ...

24 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-322MR Queensland company director charged with fraud

Mr. John Edward Featherstone, of Norman Gardens, Queensland, has been charged with the fraudulent removal of property of a company. ASIC alleges ...

24 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-321MR Victorian company director disqualified for five years

ASIC has disqualified Charles Montgomery Clarke, of Glen Iris, Victoria, from managing companies for the maximum period of five years. Mr. Clarke is ...

24 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-320MR APRA and ASIC empower consumers with new reporting standard on life insurance claims

Consumers will soon have access to high-quality, comparable data on life insurance claims and disputes after the Australian Prudential Regulation ...

22 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-319MR Authorised Representative barred for five years for falsifying share applications

Sydney-based authorised representative Eli Ekman, of Dover Heights, NSW, has been prohibited from providing any financial services in any capacity ...

22 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-318MR Update on Commonwealth Bank Fees for No Service Court-enforceable undertaking

On 13 April 2018, ASIC announced that it had accepted a Court-enforceable undertaking (EU) from Commonwealth Financial Planning Limited (CFPL) ...

22 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-317MR Former financial services responsible manager charged

Mr Andrew Law, of Biggera Waters, Queensland, has been charged with three offences under the Corporations Act after allegedly making false or ...

22 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-316MR Former South Australia grain trader pleads guilty

Mr Brenton Jeffrey Strauss of Murray Bridge, South Australia has pleaded guilty to acting as an officer of a company while it was under external ...

18 October 2018 MEDIA RELEASE
18-315MR ASIC cancels AFS licence of retail OTC derivative issuer Direct FX Trading Pty Ltd* for serious compliance failures

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Direct FX Trading Pty Ltd (AFS licence 305539) (Direct FX) following serious ...

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