Industries

A former director of defunct Falcon Capital has won a fight with ASIC over a proposed travel ban extension, following an emotional plea to a court in which he claimed to be a whistleblower. 

Auditing firm Auditeo is accused of serious failures in the latest action by the corporate regulator over the collapse of the First Guardian investment fund. 

Seymour Whyte has failed to recover millions in asbestos remediation costs from insurer Liberty, with an appeals court finding the costs related to the presence of asbestos at the site of a Melbourne road project and not its release.

A banned financial advisor who is suing former employer AMP Financial Planning for alleged unconscionable conduct is seeking to join AMP Bank to the case, claiming it made fraudulent misrepresentations.

Heidelberg Materials' $1.7 billion acquisition of Maas Group Holdings' construction material unit has been approved by the ACCC provided it sheds three concrete plants and a quarry -- the regulator's first phase 1 review with conditions. 

As Telstra faces scrutiny over this month's nationwide Triple Zero outage, the communications regulator said Thursday it had brought action against Optus over last year's emergency call blackout.

The internet safety watchdog has taken messaging service Telegram to court for allegedly failing to detect and remove pro-terror material from its platform.

A self-represented former director of the defunct Falcon Capital has told a court he has emails that clear him of claims by ASIC, but the corporate regulator said the documents may contain privileged information. 

Testing lab ALS must hand over almost all of a McGrathNicol report into allegedly exaggerated coal testing results, after a judge found last year the company had waived privileged over parts of the report by referring to its findings in an ASX statement.

ASIC will press on with its case against defunct lender Oak Capital alleging the company's business model was designed to avoid consumer protections under the National Credit Code.