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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent commission of the Australian Government tasked as the national corporate regulator. ASIC's role is to regulate company and financial services and enforce laws to protect Australian consumers, investors and creditors. [ 2 ]
The legal status of cryptocurrencies varies substantially from one jurisdiction to another, and is still undefined or changing in many of them. [1] Whereas, in the majority of countries the usage of cryptocurrency isn't in itself illegal, its status and usability as a means of payment (or a commodity) varies, with differing regulatory implications.
Coinbase was the most complained-about crypto digital wallet in the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s complaint database, with the volume of filings accelerating this year.
The SEC's complaint stated that Garza, through his companies, had fraudulently sold "investment contracts representing shares in the profits they claimed would be generated" from mining. [122] Garza was later found guilty of fraud and ordered to pay US$9 million and begin serving a 21-month sentence commencing January 2019 by the U.S. Attorney ...
Although ICOs can be used for fraud, they are also used for legal activities such as corporate finance and charitable fundraising. [28] The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned investors to beware of scammers using ICOs to execute "pump and dump" schemes, in which the scammer talks up the value of an ICO in order to generate interest and drive up the value of the coins, and then ...
The Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir may be the oldest known written customer complaint. [1] A consumer complaint or customer complaint is "an expression of dissatisfaction on a consumer's behalf to a responsible party" (London, 1980). It can also be described in a positive sense as a report from a consumer providing documentation about a ...
In 2008, a whistleblower went to ASIC to report a coverup in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia for a former financial planner. [8]Michelle Grattan characterised the then-incoming Abbott Liberal-National government as being "determined to weaken protections" that Labor had introduced, although she noted these attempts were defeated by the Senate crossbench.
ASIC v GetSwift Ltd is a 2023 decision of the Federal Court of Australia brought by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) against technology company GetSwift Ltd which resulted in the largest ever penalty awarded for corporate misconduct [1] and resulted in reforms to listing rules on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).