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20 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-148MR Former Queensland financial adviser convicted for breaching ASIC banning order

Former Queensland financial adviser Lawrence Toledo has been convicted and fined $1500 after pleading guilty to three charges of breaching an ASIC ...

17 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-147MR Court of Appeal orders a retrial for Ben Jayaweera

On 10 June 2022, the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland delivered its decision regarding an appeal against conviction and sentence ...

17 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-146MR ASIC reduces administrative burden for authorised representatives appointing claims handling staff

ASIC has issued relief to reduce the administrative burden on general insurance industry participants of notifying ASIC of large numbers of employees ...

16 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-145MR ASIC charges three former Remedy Housing personnel for involvement in alleged mortgage scam

On 16 June 2022, Brent Lindsay Smith and Fue Hiedi Mano of St Albans, Victoria, and Mahmoud Khodr of Melbourne, Victoria, appeared in the Melbourne ...

15 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-144MR Allianz and AWP plead guilty to charges for making false statements about travel insurance

Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz) has pleaded guilty to six criminal charges, and AWP Australia Pty Ltd (AWP) to one criminal charge, of ...

15 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-143MR Avanteos Investments penalised $1.7 million for defective disclosure statements

Avanteos Investments Limited, a former subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank, has been convicted and penalised a total of $1,710,000 by the County ...

14 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-142MR ASIC remakes relief on PDSs, superannuation dashboards and FSGs

ASIC has remade and combined seven legislative instruments relating to specific financial services disclosure requirements. These instruments were ...

14 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-141MR How to avoid ‘greenwashing’ for superannuation and managed funds

ASIC has released an information sheet to help issuers avoid ‘greenwashing’ when offering or promoting sustainability-related products. The ...

10 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-140MR Benjamin Heath Cooper pleads guilty to market manipulation

Benjamin Heath Cooper of Brighton-Le-Sands, New South Wales, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to manipulate the price of shares in Quantum Resources ...

9 June 2022 MEDIA RELEASE
22-139MR ASIC releases Information Sheet on warnings and reprimands given to financial advisers

The requirement for ASIC to give warnings and reprimands to financial advisers in specified circumstances was introduced by the Financial Sector ...

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