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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission made global trading firm Select Vantage "vanish overnight" from the Australian market using slanderous statements based on a lack of evidence, the NSW Supreme Court has heard.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is facing claims by the lead applicants in two class actions against failed retail giant Dick Smith alleging its poor accounting practices contributed to the retailer's collapse.
Wealth manager IOOF is facing a shareholder class action alleging it failed to tell investors that misconduct aired at the Banking Royal Commission would put it in the crosshairs of Australia's financial regulator.
A former financial advised has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for doing 'as he pleased' with $5 million in client funds that were earmarked for superannuation investments.
ANZ has reached a settlement in long-running class action proceedings alleging it hit customers with illegal fees, but the $1.5 million payout falls far short of the many millions IMF Bentham spent in funding the matter.
The Morrison government has backed down from a plan to end trailing commissions for mortgage brokers, a month after embracing the recommendation from the Banking Royal Commission.
An appeals court has dismissed a challenge by Veritas Advisory principal liquidator David Iannuzzi to the admissibility of evidence submitted by the Australian Taxation Office in the agency's case seeking compensation and a 10-year ban.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched a bid to stay a shareholder class action brought by boutique law firm Phi Finney McDonald after the firm retreated from a plan to consolidate its case with a competing class action run by rival Maurice Blackburn.
Most of the country's major financial institutions have still not conducted a systemic review of their fees-for-no-service failures, according to ASIC, which called the delays "unreasonable".
Legal action brought by the corporate regulator over withheld documents at the centre of an investigation into AMP's fees for no service conduct has settled, with law firm Clayton Utz producing the evidence on Thursday.