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  1. ASIC scam-buster tech blitzes thousands of dodgy websites

    better awareness, and less financial losses.” He said the NASC had reported a decline in losses to investment scams over the last quarter and ASIC said most of the 2,100 investment scam websites disrupted had been fake investment platforms appearing to...

  2. ASIC reveals registration data, lashes out at accountants

    the end of the three-year limited licence transition arrangements. Approximately 40 per cent of applicants left it to the last month of that 36-month transition to apply, according to the REP 503, resulting in significant delays in licence assessments...

  3. ASIC reveals reasons behind insolvencies in FY17-18

    Inadequate cash flow and poor strategic management of business were the biggest causes of failed businesses in the last financial year, with over 5,000 reports alleging insolvent trading. Small to medium size corporate insolvencies dominate external...

  4. ASIC reveals latest licensing figures

    beyond 1 July this year, with the number of approved applications still limited. An ASIC spokesperson told SMSF Adviser late last week that it has, to date, approved 149 applications for a limited licence, up from 100 in early April. A further 308...

  5. ASIC reveals $115m rise in civil penalties 

    as well. Corporate governance enforced outcomes are one of the few outcomes that have increased this year when compared to last. This year ASIC has already had outcomes of 36 corporate government issues with auditor misconduct being the most frequent...

  6. ASIC releases professional standards information for licensed accountants

    requirements, set the exam and CPD requirements, and develop the code of ethics. FASEA’s education guidance released last December proposes that an AQF7 qualification, which is equivalent to a three-year full-time university degree, or an AQF8...

  7. ASIC releases annual audit report

    financial reports were free from material misstatement. The overall results for the six largest firms were consistent with last year, ASIC noted. ASIC noted that in the 23 per cent of the 115 key audit areas reviewed across 35 audit files of the six...

  8. ASIC ramps up SME focus amid backlash to weak big biz monitoring

    obligations of small businesses, having dealt with over 700 offences relating to failure to keep books and records last year. The corporate regulator has announced that it will continue its small business focus for the 2018–19 financial year, as part of...

  9. ASIC ramps up focus on accounting standards

    should be particularly careful with as the new standards come into effect, and having released its focus area late last year. [email protected]

  10. ASIC prosecutes 100 for failing to assist liquidators

    numbers. “After a period of low corporate insolvencies in recent years, insolvency numbers have continued to rise over the last six months," she said. Ms Court said the individuals were located throughout Australia and were prosecuted summarily in local...

  11. ASIC predicts practitioners will exit SMSF advice

    this year has increased by 47, and the number of applications it has approved has increased by seven. In a podcast released last week, Mr Tanzer said he is confident accountants are well aware of their obligations after 30 June if they wish to continue...

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    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Super
  12. ASIC pledges to continue online scam blitz

    accountable for their scam detection and response practices.” ASIC also outlined in its recent report that in the last six months of 2024, investigations had been increased by 31 per cent to 109 new investigations, commenced 15 new court actions and...

  13. ASIC pledges regulatory simplification for small businesses

    regulatory simplification program. At the Small Business Association of Australia (SBAA) International Small Business Summit last week (5 December), ASIC commissioner Kate O’Rourke shared the regulator’s plans to bolster the small business community....

  14. ASIC pinpoints accountants, auditors, liquidators in FY17/18 plans

    of clients over quality of work. Consistent with its surveillance work since the phase-out of the accountants’ exemption last year, the corporate regulator will be targeting those accountants who are new to the AFSL regime. Enforcement activity will be...

  15. ASIC outlines key strategies for crypto regulation

    trillion in the value of their holdings during the course of this year.” “Sadly, many of those investors whom ASIC surveyed last year — at what turned out to be the peak of crypto prices — have probably shared in these very significant losses.” Mr...

  16. ASIC on the home stretch with accountants’ licences

    After a significant bottleneck last year, the corporate regulator has distributed a number of draft limited licences to accounting firms and is currently working through outstanding requirements with the remaining applicants. An ASIC spokesperson...

  17. ASIC launches greenwashing court action against Mercer

    The first legal case comes after the regulator issued over $140,000 infringement notices for greenwashing last year. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched proceedings in the Federal Court against Mercer Superannuation...

  18. ASIC issues new JobKeeper guidance

    their obligations. On Friday (15 October), ASIC issued guidance off the back of new reporting obligations implemented last month. The new obligations, which commenced on 14 September, require all listed entities that received JobKeeper payments to...

  19. ASIC issues infringement notices to energy company for greenwashing

    has come under fire from the Australian Security and Investments Commission for allegedly greenwashing its claims. In March last year the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said it would be cracking down on ‘greenwashing’ by closely...

  20. ASIC imposes licence conditions on NTAA’s AFSL

    that the SMSF Advisers Network had total of 1,087 professionals under its licence. It saw a spike in adviser numbers last year when a total of 412 advisers joined its licence, doubling the number of advisers that joined in 2017. A number of the...