ASIC cancels AFSL of Queensland group

Bristol Street Financial Services, based in Queensland, has had its licence cancelled after an ASIC investigation found it had widespread non-compliance with a number of laws.

Between July 2016 and October 2017, ASIC conducted a surveillance operation on the group and found it had failed to comply with the conditions on its licence and failed to comply with financial services law.

ASIC also found the group had failed to take reasonable steps to ensure its representatives complied with the law and had failed to manage conflicts of interest.

Bristol Street was also found to have failed to have adequate resources to provide services and had failed to properly monitor and supervise its representatives.

The terms of the cancellation allow Bristol Street to continue for the purposes of ensuring that its clients continue to have access to an external dispute resolution scheme and it will retain professional indemnity insurance until early December 2019.

Eliot Hastie

Eliot Hastie is a journalist at Momentum Media, writing primarily for its wealth and financial services platforms. 

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Eliot graduated from the University of Westminster, UK with a Bachelor of Arts (Journalism).

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