iSignthis and auditor Grant Thornton have each pointed the finger at each other in response to a shareholder class action over the delisted fintech’s 2018 financial statements.
A court has slapped a 14-year jail term on Perth businessman Chris Marco, after a jury found him guilty of 43 charges connected to a $34 million fraud on investors.
Court orders have been issued barring a director of cryptocurrency exchange operator Blockchain Global from travelling outside Australia while the corporate regulator investigates the collapse of the exchange.
WiseTech’s Sydney office has been raided by federal police and the corporate regulator as part of an investigation into share trading by its billionaire chairman and founder Richard White and three others.
Trial has kicked off in ASIC’s first-ever design and distribution suit over high-risk contracts for difference, after an in-principle agreement reached with investment company eToro fell through.
ASIC has secured an interim injunction against financial adviser Ferras Merhi, whose network of advisers is accused of leading thousands of clients to invest $526 million into two failed funds.
ASIC wants an injunction against a financial adviser whose “honey pot” marketing allegedly led to 6,000 clients pumping over $520 million into the collapsed Shield and First Guardian funds.
A second MWL Financial adviser has been banned this week by the corporate regulator as part of its probe into the costly collapse of Keystone’s failed Shield Master Fund.
The administrators of struggling regional airline Rex have entered into a sale agreement with NASDAQ-listed aviation holding company Air T, with the federal government stepping in to facilitate the sale.
A judge has raised concerns about whether an agreed-to $20 million penalty against Westpac’s defunct home loan subsidiary RAMS is enough to deter other lenders from breaking credit rules.