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M&A makes rebound, creating higher-value deals: Deloitte

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2025
... relative pause, Deloitte's The Deal in Focus: Heads of M&A report said, based on conversations with 100 Australian M&A corporations. Three in four (75%) believe economic conditions support M&A activity, yet nearly half (47%) said international uncertainty ...

Former Statewide Super executives acquitted

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2025
... respectively of using their positions dishonestly for the benefit of another, contrary to s184(2)(a) and (b) of the Corporations Act. This month, both Netting and Eastwood were acquitted of all charges following a trial in the District Court of South ...

Feature: Compliance | Passing the buck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2025
... registered managed investment schemes, and I would be interested to know what powers he thinks they lack, because the Corporations Act gives them a lot of powers," Walker says. Section 601FF of the Corporations Act states: "ASIC may, from time to time ...

QIC to lead investor gateway for energy sector

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... (QIC) to lead new investor gateway to attract and coordinate private capital. In partnership with Government Owned Corporations (GOCs), the gateway will boost investment into the state's energy sector. The state government said it has asked QIC to leverage ...

ASIC seeks compensation for Shield victims from EQT

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025
... ETSL's actions. "ETSL maintains that it has acted in accordance with its fiduciary duties and obligations under the Corporations Act and the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act," O'Brien said. "ETSL therefore intends to continue to defend the proceeding ...

ASIC raises alarm on auditor independence, conflicts of interest

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2025
... multiple auditor rotation breaches from Hall Chadwick (NSW). While independence requirements are prescriptive under the Corporations Act 2001, ASIC said the legal framework "requires that auditors ensure that they are unaffected, and are seen to be unaffected ...

ASIC permanently bans jailed adviser

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... disqualified register, and he has the right to appeal to the Administrative Review Tribunal for a review. Under the Corporations Act, ASIC may permanently ban a person from providing financial services if they are convicted of fraud.

Crypto providers to hold AFSL under proposed laws

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2025
... regulate platforms that hold digital assets. The draft legislation introduces two new financial products within the Corporations Act - digital asset platform and tokenised custody platform. This means the existing consumer protections and licensing rules ...

Federal court slams director for 'fanciful' asset valuation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
The Federal Court has disqualified Queensland-based director David Hodgson from managing corporations for five years and permanently restrained him from engaging in financial services without an Australian financial services licence (AFSL). This comes ...

ASIC makes 'first-of-its-kind' exemption to broaden digital asset access

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... granted an AFSL about two months ago when it launched the Australian dollar-denominated stablecoin. According to ASIC Corporations (Stablecoin Distribution Exemption) Instrument 2025/631, the instrument provides an exemption to intermediaries to hold ...