Australian regulator ASIC has earlier today released its guidance for Australian financial service (AFS) licensees about how they can mitigate the risks to their clients and business of share sale fraud. Share sale fraud is the fraudulent activity of a person who is not who they claim to be, selling shares that do not belong…
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Australian regulator ASIC announced earlier today that 58 Australian finance services (AFS) licensees have now had their authorisation revoked. The reason is that the companies were in breach of the law because they were also authorised representatives of other AFS licensees. According to section 916D of the Corporations Act 2001 (the Act), an AFS licensee…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has reminded financial advisers, who are currently authorised, to make sure that they are on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register no later than 31 December 2018, before new professional standards requirements take effect. Professional standards reforms for financial advisers were introduced in March 2017 to raise the education, training…
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