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FMA: New Zealanders underestimate investment risk and prefer lower risk investment options

15/10/2014(0)
Research conducted for the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) shows Kiwis are switched-on about straightforward, low-risk investment options. But when responding to questions about investments with more risk, people are ... Read More
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FMA issues warning about General Equity

30/09/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a warning about General Equity (previously named General Equity Building Society), a New Zealand registered building society. The warning recommends that the ... Read More
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Directors fined for not filing financial statements

11/09/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has fined directors Hayden George Jones and Thomas Alexander George Jones with the amount of $35,000 each for breaches of the Financial Reporting Act ... Read More
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FMA files civil proceedings against trustee

20/08/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has filed civil proceedings against Prince and Partners Trustee Company Limited (Prince). Prince was the trustee for finance company Viaduct Capital Limited (Viaduct). Viaduct ... Read More
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Strategic Finance settlement proceeds to first distribution

12/08/2014(0)
In June this year PwC Partners John Fisk and Colin McCloy, as Receivers of Strategic, together with the Financial Markets Authority, announced they had finalised a $22 million settlement ... Read More
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FMA fined trader with $130,000

07/08/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) announced that trader Brian Peter Henry was fined by the regulator with the amount of $130,000 after he admitted the allegations he was charged. Brian ... Read More
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FMA and SFO sign MOU to improve agency cooperation

30/07/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority, has announced a cooperation with the Serious Fraud Office iby signing a Memorandum of Understanding. In this way, both regulators continue their efficient action against ... Read More
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FMA issues New Zealand’s first licence for peer-to-peer lending services

08/07/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued its first peer-to-peer lending service licence. Auckland-based Harmoney is the first provider of this new financial service, under the provisions of the ... Read More
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Consequences for failing to comply with financial statement filing obligations

03/07/2014(0)
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has filed charges against the directors of eight companies that raise funds from the public, for breaches of the Financial Reporting Act (FRA). “Filing ... Read More
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