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ASIC is suing Finder Wallet for providing unlicensed financial services.
ASIC claims its Finder Earn product is much like a corporate bond.
Finder Wallet stopped serving customers last month.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced Thursday that it has sued Finder Wallet, a subsidiary of comparison site Finder.com, over cryptocurrency-linked yield products.
Australia’s financial watchdog has revealed that it has sued the platform for alleged unauthorized conduct and improper risk disclosure.
ASIC is suing Finder Wallet for offering Finder Earn products offered between February and November 10, 2022. In this product, Finder Wallet converted a user’s deposits in Australian dollars into an Australian dollar-linked stablecoin called TAUD. Finders will start using stablecoins as working capital.
Finder Wallet offered Australian users deposit interest rates of 4.01% and 6.01%. According to ASIC, Finder Earn is similar to a corporate bond and Finder Wallet must obtain the proper licenses before offering the product to Australians.
ASIC Vice-Chair Sarah Court said:
This is ASICs third recent lawsuit against a company offering crypto-related products that are considered financial instruments. Our message to the industry is clear the offer concerns crypto-related products. That does not guarantee that it will be outside the current regulatory regime.
ASIC is suing Finder Wallet even though the platform stopped offering the product on November 24th. Finder Wallet returned all funds to its customers after ASIC notified the company of its product concerns.
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The suspension follows the collapse of its parent company, the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
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