Search Results for: Australian Securities and Investments Commission
ASIC takes civil action against Astra Resources and its directors
May 21st, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has started legal action against Astra Resources PLC (Astra Resources) and its directors, alleging the company illegally raised more than $7.6 million from almost 300 Australian investors between September 2011 and September ...
Former Perth director jailed for providing false and misleading information
May 16th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued the following press release: Mr David Alan Zohar, a former director of Aluminex Resources Limited, was sentenced today to 14 months in jail. The sentence, handed down in the Perth ...
Two men arrested for insider trading and abuse of public office, $7 million restrained
May 9th, 2014
The Australian Federal Police and Australian Securities and Investments Commission have issued a joint press release as follows: Two men have been arrested by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) today for offences relating to insider trading, money laundering, corruption ...
Civil enforcement action filing in $4.75 Million Forex Ponzi Scheme
September 23rd, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a civil enforcement action in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against 10 defendants in a multi-level $4.75 million off-exchange foreign currency (forex) Ponzi ...
iSignthis released Shareholder Update
November 13th, 2019
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (“ASIC”) has confirmed in writing that it did not request the suspension of iSignthis securities (ASX: ISX | FRA: TA8) (“the Company”), and has referred ISX to the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) for ...
France introduces new ICO framework to become Europe’s ICO hub
September 20th, 2018
The French authorities have accepted the legal ICO framework drafted in early 2018. The framework is an important part of a push to turn the country into an ICO hub. Recently, Belgian think tank Bruegel released a report calling ...
Two men charged with fraud in fake trading accounts scheme
September 7th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Michigan men with fraud for their roles in a fake accounts scheme perpetrated by a phony day-trading firm, Nonko Trading. The SEC alleges that Jeffrey Goldman of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and ...
Beware: Supervisory authorities around the world issued investor protection warnings
July 25th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – Cnmv), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), France (Authorité des Marchés ...
Directors of Storm Financial penalised for breach of duties
March 22nd, 2018
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued an announcement to inform investors and public that the Federal Court has imposed civil penalties of $70,000 each on the directors of Storm Financial, Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, who were previously ...
ASIC reports on how large financial institutions manage conflicts of interest in financial advice
January 24th, 2018
An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) review of financial advice provided by the five biggest vertically integrated financial institutions has identified areas where improvements are needed to the management of conflicts of interest. The review looked at the ...
