The Financial Markets Authority has issued a direction order to foreign exchange education firm Cambrian Corp to change the way it markets itself, which the market watchdog said was either misleading or deceptive and made unsubstantiated claims about its services...
...The order said the FMA was concerned Cambrian didn't seem to accept the misleading nature of the marketing, and that when asked to substantiate claims there wasn't enough evidence to back them up. The regulator was also concerned that testimonials were from family and friends of the company's director, who been some way through the process but hadn't traded using the strategy...
"From the clients we interviewed and trades we analysed, the FMA did not find any evidence that Cambrian's strategy resulted in the claimed returns,"