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The former company director and CEO of gold exploration company Quantum Resources has been charged with insider trading.
In a defeat to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, a judge has found a key witness in the trial against former Quintis director Frank Wilson must give evidence in person, delaying the hearing indefinitely until coronavirus-related travel restrictions are lifted.
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has launched proceedings against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and its subsidiary Colonial First State Investments over the alleged payment of conflicted remuneration for a superannuation product jointly developed by the financial giants.
A judge has dismissed a defensive bid by ASIC to amend its case against GetSwift mid-trial, instead calling on "common sense" to be injected into the proceeding as the hearing enters its second week.
A Marshall Islands-based binary options trader has been hit with a $1.8 million penalty after a judge found it engaged in the "deliberate deception of vulnerable people".
More law firms may soon be targeted in a lawsuit brought by defunct financial advisor Dover Financial alleging three law firms provided negligent advice concerning an inaptly titled 'client protection policy', which a judge recently found was "highly misleading" and "an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak".
GetSwift "sat on" an announcement about a lucrative deal with US-based automotive sales and marketing firm N.A. Williams for more than three weeks, then leaked the news to the media before announcing it on the Australian Stock Exchange, ASIC has told the Federal Court on day two of a trial in the corporate regulator's case against the logistics tech company.
Investment group Mayfair 101 has denied claims by ASIC that it has engaged in misleading or deceptive advertising of its Platinum products, saying in a response to the regulator's case the products were aimed at sophisticated investors who were told of the risks.
Émails show the directors of logistics company GetSwift took a "deliberate approach" to inflating the company's share price through a constant supply of positive ASX announcements about new multimillion-dollar contracts, ASIC said on the first day of a highly anticipated five-week trial.
ASIC has slapped an Australian unit of French investment bank Société Générale with additional licence conditions for failing to comply with its obligations for handling client money over a near four-year period.