Tag: Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions

July 25, 2024 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Australia’s Equity Markets Get Clean Bill Of Health

In its latest market cleanliness report, the financial watchdog emphasised that sound – or clean – financial markets are essential to the economy and empower companies to raise funds, navigate risks and boost investor confidence. The regulator’s chairperson, Joe Longo, stated: Protecting and enhancing the integrity of Australia’s equity markets continues to be a priority…

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October 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC successfully appeals sentence of former CBA financial planner

Australian regulator ASIC and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions have announced that they have successfully appealed the sentence of Ricky David Gillespie, a former senior financial planner of the Commonwealth Bank’s financial planning subsidiary, Commonwealth Financial Planning Limited. On 12 December 2017, Mr Gillespie was fined $3,000 with no conviction recorded, after pleading guilty…

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