The Federal Court informed that it has imposed a civil penalty of $1 million against Melbourne-based financial advice firm NSG Services Pty Ltd (currently named Golden Financial Group Pty Ltd) (NSG) for breaches of the best interests duty introduced under the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms. This is the first civil penalty imposed on…
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Mr Shane Thompson, of New Gisborne, Victoria, has pleaded guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court to two charges that he forged and submitted financial planning documents for his own personal gain, ASIC informed earlier today. The charges, brought by ASIC, allege that between 27 December 2012 and 1 March 2013, Mr Thompson completed 22 false…
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Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £34,524,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for failing to report 68.5 million exchange traded derivative transactions between 12 February 2014 and 6 February 2016. This is the first enforcement action against a firm for failing to report details of trading in exchange traded derivatives, under the European…
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ASX-listed company Adairs Limited (Adairs) has paid a penalty of $66,000 after ASIC issued an infringement notice alleging it had not complied with the continuous disclosure obligations. ASIC announced that it has found there are reasonable grounds to believe that Adairs was in breach of its continuous disclosure obligations between 23 September and 2 November…
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The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has announced that it has ordered units of Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC) - Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC - to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution to affected customers for unsuitable recommendations of volatility-linked exchange-traded products (ETPs) and related…
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has ordered Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution to affected customers for unsuitable recommendations of volatility-linked exchange-traded products (ETPs) and related supervisory failures. FINRA found that between July 1, 2010, and…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it has banned Mrs Colette Chiesa and Mr John Chiesa from working in financial services for integrity failings. Additionally, Mrs Chiesa has been fined £50,000 for attempting to mislead the FCA during an FCA interview. Mr and Mrs Chiesa were founding partners of Westwood Independent Financial Planners…
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ASX-listed company Bellamy's Australia Limited (Bellamy's) has paid a penalty of $66,000 after ASIC issued an infringement notice for an alleged failure by Bellamy's to comply with its continuous disclosure obligations. The infringement notice was issued following an investigation into matters arising from an announcement on 2 December 2016 by Bellamy's to the ASX stating…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Arab Global Commodities DMCC (AGC), a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Dubai with several trading offices in India, for engaging in the disruptive trading practice of “spoofing” in the copper futures contract traded on the Commodity Exchange, Inc. (COMEX) between March…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Final Judgment and Order against Grace Elizabeth Reisinger of Grand Island, Nebraska and her company ROF Consulting, LLC (ROF) for operating a fraudulent commodity pool scheme. The Order, entered on October…
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