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Some of the apps “make outrageous claims” said Greg Yanco, head of market integrity at ASIC. “There is an issue globally with these products.”
An Australia-based spokeswoman for Apple pointed to its recently updated developer guidelines, which explicitly prohibit all new apps that facilitate binary options trading, but declined to comment further on its discussions with the Australian authorities.
“We remove applications that violate our policies. We don’t comment on individual applications,” said an Australia-based spokesman for Google.
ASIC cited cases where consumers are unable to withdraw cash from their accounts or make winning trades 9 times out of 10 in the demonstration app, before losing everything once they switch to the live product. It said Apple has removed the apps from their online stores globally, though it didn’t specify if Google’s removal applies to just Australia or to its app stores around the world.
Of the 330 apps that have now been removed, 80 per cent had no warnings about the risks inherent in trading, ASIC said.
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