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ASIC to extend retail investor ban on binary options

James Eyers

The corporate regulator intends to extend a ban on sales of “binary options” to retail investors for the rest of the decade.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission used its product intervention power last year to ban the product – a leveraged, speculative derivative that provides an all-or-nothing payoff depending on the price of an asset at some date in the future – in the retail market.

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James Eyers writes on banking, finance, payments, regulation and emerging technologies. Based in Sydney, he is a former legal and investment banking editor at the AFR and has been a business journalist for more than 20 years. Email James at jeyers@afr.com.au

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