Search Results for: Macquarie
ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from Macquarie Bank to address inadequacies within their wholesale FX businesses
May 19th, 2017
ASIC has today accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Macquarie Bank Limited in relation to the bank’s wholesale foreign exchange (FX) businesses, following an ASIC investigation. ASIC is concerned that the bank failed to ensure that its systems and ...
ASIC bans former director and responsible manager of Macquarie subsidiary
February 16th, 2016
ASIC has banned Mr Timothy Hornibrook of Clovelly, New South Wales, from providing financial services for a period of six years. Mr Hornibrook, formerly a director and responsible manager of Australian financial services licensee, Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management Ltd ...
ASIC bans former representative of Macquarie Equities Limited
August 10th, 2015
ASIC has banned Mr Shawn Hickman, of Middle Cove, New South Wales, from providing financial services for six years after he engaged in unauthorised discretionary trading on his clients’ accounts and created false records. Mr Hickman was a representative ...
Macquarie Investment Management to refund clients after review of system errors
June 17th, 2015
Macquarie Investment Management Limited (Macquarie) is due to refund over $5.5 million to around 2,300 clients affected by system errors. The errors occurred between 2001 and 2014, on a number of products using the Macquarie Wrap Platform. ASIC has ...
Baker & McKenzie Advises J.P. Morgan And Macquarie On Steadfast Group Limited’s $300 Million Equity Raising
February 17th, 2015
Baker & McKenzie has advised J.P. Morgan and Macquarie as joint lead managers of Steadfast Group Limited’s $300 million placement and accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer to fund the acquisition of two underwriting and two broking businesses from ...
Macquarie drawn into Commonwealth Bank financial planning row; ASIC undertaking
July 8th, 2014
Macquarie Group’s private wealth unit has been accused of not co-operating with the Senate committee that delved into unethical financial planning practices at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Inquiry chairman Labor senator Mark Bishop said Macquarie had similar “systematic ...
German police raids the offices of multinational law firm
November 26th, 2018
For the second time in a year, prosecutors raided the Frankfurt offices of the prestigious law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The raid marked an extension of the investigation of Freshfields’ involvement in dividend stripping, Frankfurt state prosecutors confirmed to ...
Strategic partnership between Worldline and SIX consolidating European payments
May 24th, 2018
Worldline’s $2.75 billion deal to buy the payments unit of Swiss exchange operator SIX Group, announced on Tuesday, could herald more consolidation in the industry, SIX’s chairman told Reuters. France’s Worldline beat competition from U.S. bidders to land the ...
Directors of Storm Financial penalised for breach of duties
March 22nd, 2018
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued an announcement to inform investors and public that the Federal Court has imposed civil penalties of $70,000 each on the directors of Storm Financial, Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, who were previously ...
Former financial planner of Westpac banned for five year
June 8th, 2017
ASIC has banned Mr Sudhir Kumar Sinha, a financial planner from Western Australia, from providing financial services until 2 June 2022. Mr Sinha was an employed representative of Westpac Banking Corporation from 2001 to 10 November 2014. ASIC’s investigation ...
