ASIC
Government open to ASIC's call to toughen up disclosure penalties
Clancy Yeates The corporate regulator wants to hit transgressors hard, and Canberra is listening, writes Clancy Yeates.
ASIC seeks to rein in liquidators
Leonie Wood Corporate regulator finally provides some statistical evidence of how it monitors and disciplines the insolvency industry.
ASIC defends oversight record on liquidators
Leonie Wood The corporate regulator launched eight formal investigations into liquidators last year after fielding 426 complaints of possible misconduct.
ASIC hunts webscam spinners
Ian McIlwraith Quick action by regulators appears to have saved some investors from losing thousands of dollars in yet another online trading scam.
ASIC seeks to bar insolvency specialist
Leonie Wood The corporate regulator has moved to bar Andrew Dunner, a Melbourne-based insolvency specialist, from practice.
Stop the presses, new ASIC website falls short
Ian McIlwraith In a sign of the times, Australia's corporate watchdog is starting up a new website.
ASIC's death by a thousand cuts
Michael West Over the past nine years, 800 million people have been born into the world, YouTube and Facebook were invented and the Iraq War passed into history, but Will Matthews, an actuary from East Brighton...
No accounts, no worries: companies thumb nose at ASIC
Michael West A raft of multinational companies with large government contracts have failed to file their financial reports, raising questions about the regulator and leaving creditors exposed.
A glimpse through ASIC's window of transparency leaves a blurred image
Malcolm Maiden If Greg Medcraft's new ideologies of transparent policies are to stay, maybe the old is better.
That's the limit, ASIC warns CBA
Eric Johnston Commonwealth Bank has been forced to pull offers to increase credit card limits.
Sigalla to continue the fight with ASIC
CBD The former chairman of the technology firm TZ Limited, who was replaced by the celebrity entrepreneur Mark Bouris, has vowed not to let his dispute with the corporate regulator rest following a...
ASIC argument Orwellian: judge
Elisabeth Sexton In March 2005, the share price of Fortescue Metals Group fell 25 per cent in a single day.
Former ASIC boss gets top wine job
Eli Greenblat Former ASIC chairman Tony D'Aloisio has been appointed the next president of the Winemakers' Federation of Australia.
ASIC in warning on duties
Ruth Williams Corporate regulator cautions directors they will be held responsible for accuracy of company reports.
Companies failing on pay: ASIC
Ben Butler Companies still failing to properly explain how they pay their executives, despite a fall in the number of votes against remuneration reports
ASIC nails Sigalla but pays a price
CBD The former chairman of the technology company TZ Limited Andrew Sigalla has had one of the more awkward chapters of his life finally closed, after being found guilty of being in contempt of court as...
ASIC 'Orwellian' in pursuit of Forrest: judge
Elisabeth Sexton There was something Orwellian about the way the corporate regulator pursued its case against Andrew Forrest and Fortescue, a High Court judge said this morning.
Judge labels ASIC's Forrest case 'embarrassing'
A High Court judge has labelled elements of the ASIC case against Fortescue Metals founder Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest as embarrassing.
ASIC on spot over Fortescue
Clancy Yeates A High Court judge has queried whether ASIC should have 'nailed its colours to a mast'.
ASIC spikes $35m share offer by Fortis
Ben Butler Investors in Fortis Mining should have been told what interest Fortis had in Kazakh projects.
