The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has drawn on the principles governing the fit and proper requirements for legal practitioners in setting aside the debarment of a bank’s representative on the grounds of dishonesty. […]
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has set aside and remitted the debarment of a Sanlam representative in a case that followed a pattern similar to many debarment reconsideration applications: a client produces an […]
The FSCA cannot debar someone indefinitely – the FAIS Act requires a time limit, the Financial Services Tribunal (FST) said when it set aside this aspect of a debarment order and told the […]
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has set aside the debarment of a representative who shared confidential proprietary information with his wife and who signed up with a competing FSP while still employed by […]
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) has upheld Discovery Life’s decision to debar a financial adviser who advised clients to invest in Ecsponent preference shares although he was not authorised or licensed to advise […]
The FSCA has fined Brite Advisors South Africa (Pty) Ltd and a former director of the group, Nigel James Green, a total of R12.5 million. The Authority said an investigation found that Brite, […]
The FSCA’s assumption that an FSP had not responded to one of its questions contributed to its decision to debar him. But a pack of documents the FSP sent the FSCA landed up […]
The Financial Services Tribunal (FST) as upheld the FSCA’s decision to debar a life insurance representative who admitted that she submitted unauthorised policy applications but subsequently sought to qualify her admission. What is […]
The case for debarring a representative must be established on a balance of probability, not prima facie findings, the Financial Services Tribunal (FST) said when it upheld a representative’s application for his debarment […]
A representative conspired with a client in an attempt to have the complaint against him withdrawn, the Financial Services Tribunal said in its decision to uphold his debarment. Sanlam Developing Markets (SDM) debarred […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has set aside the debarment of a representative and declined to refer the matter back to the FSP for reconsideration, because the tribunal had no confidence that the FSP […]
The Financial Services Tribunal’s decision in January to set aside the debarment of a financial planner highlights the importance of FSPs adhering to the requirements of section 14 of the FAIS Act and […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has expressed its disapproval of the way in which FNB debarred a representative – and it set aside the employee’s debarment for a second time. FNB dismissed and debarred […]
The Financial Services Tribunal has expressed its disapproval of the way in which FNB debarred a representative – and it set aside the employee’s debarment for a second time. FNB dismissed and debarred […]
An FSP can institute debarment proceedings against a representative for breaches of contract as long as the contractual breaches also result in a failure to meet the Fit and Proper Requirements or are […]
From a number of recent tribunal decisions, it seems that some intermediaries do not understand the purpose of the Financial Services Tribunal – in particular, that it functions as an appeal mechanism only. […]
Misconduct in terms of an employer’s code of conduct and governance framework are not necessarily grounds for debarring a representative, the Financial Sector Tribunal ruled this month. In the matter that came before […]
