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ASIC takes Wiluna Mining to court over $57M capital raising announcement
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-04-14 11:52 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The corporate regulator has brought enforcement action against Wiluna Mining, accusing the gold mining operation of misleading conduct over a capital raising a month before it went under.

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ASIC sues Hollard Insurance over 3-year delay in resolving claim
Insurance 2025-04-11 11:10 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The corporate regulator has taken Holland Insurance to court, alleging it breached its duty of utmost good faith by taking over three years to resolve an insurance claim.

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Debt management firm to face trial after negotiations with ASIC ‘derail’
Financial Services 2025-04-08 2:34 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Debt management firm Solve My Debt Now will face trial over claims by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission that it left vulnerable customers worse off, despite indicating last year it would admit liability.

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Court tosses Clive Palmer’s suits against ex-ASIC chair James Shipton
ASIC 2025-03-31 12:48 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A judge has thrown out Clive Palmer’s lawsuits against former Australian Securities and Investments Commission chair James Shipton after finding the claims had no reasonable prospects of success.

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ASIC, Reserve Bank have ‘deep concerns’ about ASX after CHESS outage
Securities 2025-03-31 11:24 pm By Christine Caulfield

ASX’s management of operational risk that led to December’s CHESS settlement outage has the corporate regulator and the Reserve Bank “increasingly concerned” and “deeply disappointed”.

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Super funds slammed for ‘unacceptable’ handling of death benefit claims
Financial Services 2025-03-31 11:22 pm By Christine Caulfield

The corporate regulator has caned the super fund industry for its poor handling of death benefit claims it said had “devastating impacts” on members’ grieving relatives.

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‘Egregious failure’ by lender’s counsel in appeal against ASIC win: court
Appeals 2025-03-24 4:44 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Payday lender Sunshine Loans has lost an appeal after it was ruled liable for “wrongheaded” conduct, with an appeals court finding that counsel showed an “egregious failure” to confine the case to the real issues. 

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CDPP drops charges against ex-G8 Education director
White Collar 2025-03-20 5:08 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The CDPP has dropped charges against former G8 Education director Jennifer Hutson related to the ASX-listed childcare company’s 2015 takeover bid for Affinity Education Group.

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Judge asks ex-Star GC if she made mistake in not advising board on Suncity
Trials 2025-03-18 11:51 pm By Cindy Cameronne

On questioning by a judge, Star’s former top lawyer has denied making a mistake by failing to tell the board about issues with junket Suncity in May 2018, but said her view was different now with hindsight. 

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Active Super ordered to pay $10.5M penalty for greenwashing
Greenwashing 2025-03-18 12:16 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The trustee for Active Super has been ordered to pay a $10.5 million penalty for misleading members about its investments in gambling, oil tar sands and Russian companies.

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