A rental company providing long-term leases for household items has been slugged with a $7.4 million penalty after a court found its loan agreements did not comply with credit laws.
Former director of fintech iSignthis, John Karantzis, plans to appeal a ruling that slapped him with a $1 million penalty and disqualification orders for allegedly providing misleading information to shareholders.
The High Court will hear an appeal by Sunshine Loans, which centres on a judge’s recusal in the corporate regulator’s case over unauthorised fees.
A judge has handed iSignthis and its director $11 million in penalties for failing to give adequate disclosures and giving misleading information to the ASX, saying reliance on legal advice was no reason to reduce the fine.
Banks have agreed to refund low income customers a total of $93 million in excessive fees following an investigation by ASIC, but the Commonwealth Bank has refused to make $270 million in further repayments.
The Full Court has rejected ASIC’s appeal of a ruling that fintech Finder did not need a financial services licence to sell its defunct cryptocurrency product, saying the product did not involve a debt for money.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is taking a third swing at cyber enforcement proceedings, suing financial planner Fortnum Private Wealth after a breach saw the data of 9,000 clients published to the dark web.
Ord Minnett has resolved a suit by a former exec claiming he was sacked for complaining about a $110,000 pay cut imposed after ASIC slapped the wealth management firm with a $880,000 penalty for breaching market integrity rules.
Companies in the steel empire of billionaire Sanjeev Gupta have been ordered to lodge outstanding annual financial reports after the corporate regulator brought court action.
ASIC has won travel bans against two people who are being investigated over their links to Keystone and Falcon Capital funds, which are suspected of misusing investor money, after the regulator claimed losses could be “catastrophic”.