The FMA is expecting a wave of appeals after deregistering 100 companies from the Financial Service Providers register, as it awaits a High Court ruling on Vivier & Co's appeal.

Vivier & Co, which has one-time political operator Luigi Wewege as a director, says the FMA used an 'inflammatory article' to strip it of registration.

A firm directed by Luigi Wewege will today appeal being kicked off the Financial Service Providers Register by the FMA.

The directors of OPI Pacific Finance, which collapsed owing $247m, have pleaded guilty to making untrue statements.

Ring belongs to a woman linked to a currency and commodity trading firm whose assets are frozen.

The Financial Markets Authority is hammering home the message that it means business on issues such as market manipulation and insider trading.

ASB, which reported a record annual profit yesterday, is increasing rural provisioning as a slump in dairy prices puts increasing financial pressure on farmers.

The FMA is suing former Milford portfolio manager Mark Warminger over alleged market manipulation.

The parked civil action against convicted directors of Capital+Merchant Finance has been dropped.

A firm directed by Luigi Wewege is back on the Financial Service Providers Register while it appeals being kicked off.

New Zealand's financial regulator is refusing to reveal exactly what it spent investigating Milford Asset Management.

All 74 authorised financial advisers and all who applied for a licence in the past year received a regulatory rubber stamp.

5500 Hanover investors are finally going to get back some of their money. What they won't get is their day in court. Hamish Fletcher reports.

NZX says a lack of basic shareholder protections could tarnish the reputation of the country's capital markets.

As investors digest the implications of FMA's Hanover deal, it is still unclear if Guardian Trust will have to pay any of the $18m settlement amount.

The FMA's $18 million Hanover settlement leaves the public none the wiser on whether the six defendants breached disclosure obligations or not.

Milford Asset Management has lost five wholesale clients, including financial services provider Mercer, since its $1.5 million settlement with the FMA last month.

The $18m settlement between Hanover Finance's directors and promoters and the Financial Markets Authority should be of some comfort to investors, says John Key

Civil claim against directors and promoters of failed finance company settled just two weeks before court date.

Hamish Fletcher says he FMA, after some law changes, now has the tools that allow it to proactively stamp out misleading conduct in the market.

Financial Markets Authority chief executive Rob Everett says the settlement with Milford Asset Management over market manipulation issues has been an uncomfortable wake-up call.

A firm directed by Luigi Wewege, one of the central protagonists in the Len Brown infidelity scandal, has been kicked off the Financial Service Providers Register.

An investor in the David Ross ponzi scheme - who has been named for the first time - has been ordered to pay back $454,000 of fictitious profits in a clawback test case.

The way ASB sells its term funds and interest rate swaps will be independently reviewed after the bank reached a settlement with the Financial Markets Authority.

Milford has dropped portfolio manager Mark Warminger from its investment team and Brian Gaynor is its new NZ equity head.

Question marks remain over whether Milford Asset Management will reclaim its $281 million active equities mandate with the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.

The Milford Asset worker who allegedly carried out manipulative trading activities has gone on extended leave, effective today.

The FMA says it's reached the final stages of its investigation into alleged market manipulation at Milford Asset Management.

North South Finance investors will get a better deal in the $10.24 million settlement with its board and the directors of Dominion Finance.