Search Results for: Australian Securities and Investments Commission
ASIC warns investors about Titantrade.com
August 4th, 2016
ASIC is warning the public not to click on any advertising being marketed under the brand ‘Titantrade’, a website by which trading in binary options is being offered. A binary option is a financial product, in particular a derivative, ...
ASIC targets mid-tier brokers on how they are managing conflicts of interest
June 2nd, 2016
The financial regulator is worried about how mid-tier research and broking firms are managing conflicts of interest. Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft has told a large gathering of stockbrokers the regulator has concerns about how some research ...
Asia trades lower, as oil prices drop; Westpac shares down 3.7%
May 12th, 2016
Asian stocks fell modestly Thursday, taking cues from declines in U.S. stocks after a string of top-flight retail companies released disappointing earnings. The U.S. markets falls came despite gains in oil prices on better-than-expected inventories data. Shares of Disney had ...
Fintech regulation has been a key agenda item at recent meetings of peak financial regulators
April 11th, 2016
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is talking to the Monetary Authority of Singapore about an agreement to ensure that regulation does not hinder the progress of fintech start-ups looking to operate across the countries’ borders. Fintech regulation has been a key ...
Forex Broker Ironfx Australia Becomes Gvs Au, Trades As Fxgiants
March 8th, 2016
IronFX Global Australia, the Australian unit of forex brokerage IronFX Global, has been renamed GVS (AU) PTY, according to data published on the website of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The company now operates under the FXGiants trading brand, according to ...
ASIC sues ANZ for interest rate fixing
March 4th, 2016
ASIC has today commenced legal proceedings in the Federal Court in Melbourne against the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) for unconscionable conduct and market manipulation in relation to the ANZ’s involvement in setting the bank bill ...
Slater & Gordon bankers bring in investigative accountants
January 8th, 2016
Slater & Gordon faces further scrutiny after it emerged that the company’s lenders have appointed investigative accountants to take a closer look at its books. The move follows a shock abandonment of its earnings guidance in late 2015 that unnerved shareholders ...
ASIC bans two persons from providing financial services
October 6th, 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued today two announcements to inform public that the Commission decided to ban two persons in different cases from providing financial services. According the first announcement, ASIC informs that, it has ...
BFSC: Warning against Alpha Broker Ltd
April 8th, 2015
The Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) warns the public that company ALPHA BROKING LTD is not licensed by the FSC and hence is not eligible to provide investment services and activities under the Markets in Financial Instruments Act as ...
ASIC: Two men sentenced in Australia’s largest insider trading case
March 17th, 2015
Joint media release with The Hon Josh Frydenberg, Assistant Treasurer and The Hon Kelly O’Dwyer, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer Two men were sentenced to jail terms of 7 years and 3 months, and 3 years and 3 months ...
