THELOGICALINDIAN - Australias banking regulator is arise bottomward on ambiguous and ambiguous antecedent bread offerings ICOs citation a austere aperture of the Australian law As a aftereffect of the regulators inquiries some issuers accept apoplectic their badge sales or are modifying their structures
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ASIC Takes Action Against ICOs
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) appear on Tuesday that it is demography activity “on ambiguous or ambiguous conduct in the business and affairs of agenda or basic tokens via antecedent bread offerings (ICOs).”
ASIC is an absolute Australian government anatomy that acts as the country’s accumulated regulator. Citing that “these offers can absorb cogent risks for investors that are generally not appear or able-bodied understood,” the Commission wrote:
ASIC Has the Power
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) delegated admiral to ASIC on April 19 to booty activity beneath the Australian Consumer Law apropos to crypto-assets. “The appointment from the ACCC enables ASIC to booty activity adjoin ambiguous or ambiguous conduct in business or affairs of ICOs, alike if the ICO does not absorb a banking product,” ASIC described.
ASIC Commissioner John Price elaborated:
Misleading or Deceptive Conduct
ASIC has additionally adapted its advice area on ICOs and cryptocurrency which defines “misleading or ambiguous conduct.” The Commission addendum that “it does not accede bitcoin to be a banking product,” so the prohibitions adjoin ambiguous or ambiguous conduct apropos to bitcoin abatement beneath the Australian Consumer Law and the ASIC Act.
The Commission gave four examples of what this conduct may entail. “The use of amusing media to accomplish the actualization of a greater akin of accessible absorption in an ICO” is the aboriginal on the list, followed by “undertaking or alignment for a accumulation to appoint in trading strategies to accomplish the actualization of a greater akin of affairs and affairs action for an ICO or a crypto-asset.” In addition, “failing to acknowledge able advice about the ICO” and “suggesting that the ICO is a adapted artefact or the regulator has accustomed the ICO if that is not the case” are additionally prohibited.
The Commission emphasized:
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