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RBA opts to keep cash rate on hold

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
At its meeting yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) reached a monetary policy decision to keep the cash rate unchanged at 3.6%. In explaining why, the board warned of possible rate rises in 2026 as it takes a more cautious response to inflationary ...

ASIC takes action on Spice Capital Partners, founder

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
ASIC is taking further action against Spice Capital Partners and its founder Colin Oxlade for providing unlicensed financial services and financial product advice that ultimately raised nearly $2 million from investors. ASIC alleges that Oxlade, who ...

APRA consults on CPS 230 amendments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... not subject to a formal agreement. "These amendments aim to streamline processes for regulated entities and alleviate regulatory burden, while ensuring a practical prudential framework that enhances resilience across the financial system," McCarthy said. ...

Mulino taps super sector to help pay CSLR special levy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... CSLR shortfall by applying the special levy on all "retail facing" sub-sectors apportioned in accordance with ASIC regulatory effect. Under this approach the primary sub sectors contributing to the levy would be licensees that provide personal advice ...

Boman Group scores licence to expand China investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
... Melbourne-based Boman Group has been granted the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) licence by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, which will help it to expand its direct investments in China. The licence will allow its subsidiary ...

ASIC releases legal obligations for private credit funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2025
ASIC has released a catalogue summarising key legal obligations and regulatory guidance for private credit fund operators, as the regulator continues to keep an eye on the sector. ASIC said the catalogue should assist private credit fund operators in ...

VanEck launches fixed-rate subordinated debt ETF

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... Australia's largest banks. FSUB will be the sister fund of SUBD and will offer fixed-rate exposure within the same regulatory capital framework, enabling investors to access nominal yields and diversify their rate exposure. VanEck said that in the ...

Brookfield, GIC seal $4bn National Storage REIT acquisition

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2025
... favour of the acquisition, which is expected to be implemented in the second quarter of 2026, pending shareholder and regulatory approval. The meeting at which the NSR shareholders will vote on the transaction is expected to be held in April 2026. The ...

APAC investors push for 24-hour trading in US markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2025
... investors to trade 24 hours a day, five days a week. The paper said global demand, especially from APAC investors, and regulatory permissibility are key drivers for the move to 24x5 equity trading. The convergence of securities and crypto brokerages ...

Benchmark report reveals crucial blind spots in whistleblower protections

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2025
... the adoption of effective whistleblower policies and programs across corporate Australia, including the releasing of Regulatory Guide 270 Whistleblower policies (RG270) in November 2019, inform chief executives in 2021 to review their policies and publishing ...