Search Results for: Australian Securities and Investments Commission
ASIC: lender pays $30,600 penalty for misleading online advertisements
April 2nd, 2014
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has announced that “Paid International Ltd”, formerly known as First Stop Money Ltd, has paid $30,600 in penalties after ASIC issued three infringement notices for making misleading representations in its online advertisements. The ...
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February 4th, 2014
ASIC further regulates the selling of CFDs to Retail Investors
October 29th, 2020
The Australian Securities and investment commission has announced the restrictions on selling. They would like to protect investors, as they are saying. New rules will also mandate negative account protection. It will ensure customers do not lose more than ...
iSignthis announced the appointment of a new board member to iSignthis eMoney
May 21st, 2019
Highlights Appoints new board member to iSignthis eMoney Ltd board Dr George Theocharides experience includes o CySec Board (Cypriot Securities sector regulator) o Bank of Cyprus & Centre for Blockchain technologies o Associate Professor at Cyprus International Institute of ...
The AFS licence of the retail OTC derivative issuer AGM Markets cancelled
November 14th, 2018
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued an announcement to inform that ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of the retail OTC derivative issuer, AGM Markets. In accordance the announcement, an ASIC investigation found ...
Financial planner sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for fraud
November 14th, 2017
The former Principal of Sherwin Financial Planners Pty Ltd and Chairman of Wickham Securities Ltd, Bradley Thomas Sherwin, was sentenced in the Brisbane District Court to a total of 10 years imprisonment on 25 charges, brought by the Commonwealth ...
Supervisory authorities around the world warn for unauthorised financial services entities
September 18th, 2017
The supervisory authorities of Australia (Australian Securities and Investment Commission- ASIC), United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC), Belgium (Financial Services and Markets Authority – FSMA), Denmark (Danish Financial Supervisory Authority ...
ANZ, Westpac admit breaches in forex trading
March 16th, 2017
ANZ and Westpac have followed rivals and yielded to the corporate regulator’s investigation into banks’ foreign exchange businesses, agreeing to oversight and changes after traders shared confidential client information and traded to benefit themselves. A week after the banks’ ...
Forex broker fined for more than $35 Million
November 17th, 2016
Federal Court Orders IB Capital FX, LLC, Michel Geurkink, and Emad Echadi to Pay More than $35 Million in Restitution and a Civil Penalty for Soliciting at Least $50 Million from Members of the Public to Trade Forex, without ...
ASIC cancels licence of Pacific Millennium International Investment Group Pty Ltd
August 5th, 2016
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Pacific Millennium International Investment Group Pty Ltd (PMIIG) after it was found to have breached the obligations of a financial services licensee. PMIIG was authorised under its AFS licence ...
