ASIC Enforcement Review: Strengthening Penalties for Corporate and Financial Sector Misconduct
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce (the taskforce) recently released a positions paper 'Strengthening Penalties for Corporate and Financial Sector Misconduct' (the positions paper) which it seeks public comment on. Today we summarise that report, setting out the positions that ASIC seeks feedback on. [caption id="attachment_2522" align="alignnone" width="640"] ASIC Corporate & Financial Misconduct[/caption] Background to ASIC Enforcement Concerns have been raised in a number of quarters that the penalties regime in legislation administered by ASIC is not fit-for-purpose, does not reflect the seriousness of some offending, and is inconsistent with the penalties for offending of similar seriousness in other financial contexts (such as penalties for insider trading). For further elaboration on these concerns see our previous piece Financial crime doesn’t pay – three ways in which…