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Midway Limited hit with $33,000 fine for alleged continuous disclosure breach
Wood-fibre processor and exporter Midway Limited has been hit with a $33,000 penalty after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleged it failed to disclose a revenue downturn to shareholders.
Departing ASIC commissioner to head Vanguard’s in-house legal team
ASIC commissioner Sean Hughes will step down next month after taking a role with investment manager Vanguard – which paid a $40,000 fine to the corporate watchdog just last month.
Nuix says it didn’t have to disclose $17M post-IPO shortfall to investors
Hitting back at ASIC's claims it misled investors and breached disclosure rules, technology company Nuix says it had no knowledge it was failing to meet its FY21 forecast and didn’t need to disclose to investors draft documents showing missed internal targets.
Late judgment in ASIC case derails Quintis class action trial date
A judge has vacated an upcoming trial in shareholder class actions against former Quintis director Frank Wilson and Ernst & Young, after learning judgment in similar ASIC proceedings against Wilson will not be delivered before the class action hearing kicks off.
Harvey Norman, Latitude file ‘fine print’ defence to ASIC claims
Retail giant Harvey Norman and consumer credit provider Latitude Finance have hit back at ASIC claims that they ran misleading ads for interest-free finance, saying reasonable consumers would have known additional conditions were laid out in the ads' fine print.
Ex-Spaceship Capital director wins appeal of banning order
A former director of Spaceship Capital Limited has succeeded in overturning a banning order imposed by ASIC, with a tribunal finding he may have been kept in the dark about the software bug that led to the ban.
‘Spurious’ arguments cost James Mawhinney in successful appeal of 20-year ban
The founder of investment group Mayfair 101 must foot half his costs of a successful appeal of a 20-year ban on fund raising because of the many "spurious" grounds of appeal he pressed.
‘Disastrous’ GetSwift class action settlement revised down to $1M
A $1.5 million class action settlement against failed logistics provider GetSwift, which a judge termed a "disaster", has been revised down to $1 million and may face a liquidators' challenge that could see a group members recover nothing.
‘ASX Wolf’ trader’s Instagram account was unlicensed financial services biz, court rules
Gold Coast ‘finfluencer’ Tyson Scholz provided illegal financial services by giving tips on his Instagram account and to customers who paid for access to his seminars and ‘Black Wolf Pit’ chat room, a judge has found.
Despite pleading guilty, CBA dodges criminal case over consumer credit insurance
A precedential ruling on the statute of limitations in a separate case has forced the dismissal of criminal charges against the Commonwealth Bank -- after the bank pleaded guilty.