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ASIC seeks relief extension for securitisation entities

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
ASIC is seeking to extend a relief for securitisation entities from holding an AFSL for five more years. The regulator is seeking stakeholder feedback on its plans to remake a relief instrument by extending the exemption for securitisation entities ...

Oxfam calls for net wealth tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... have raised $17.4 billion, which it said could have helped deliver cheap childcare for all families, extend energy bill relief for another two years and increase the humanitarian budget almost seven times over. The anti-poverty organisation also called ...

ASIC seeks feedback on updating financial reports relief guidance

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2026
ASIC has commenced a consultation on updating the Regulatory Guide 43 Financial reports and audit relief (RG 43), to ensure clarity in granting relief from the financial record-keeping, financial reporting, and audit requirements. The update aims to ...

ASX-listed companies at breaking point: Alvarez & Marsal

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2025
... pressure continues to mount, as many are looking at alternative methods to keep up with interest payments; interest rate relief is too shallow and has come too late for them. Economic headwinds continue to challenge Australian corporates, and the rate ...

BlackRock loses $8.9bn pension fund mandate

MATT TOLEDO  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2025
... in the US, retreating from climate stewardship may once have felt like the path of least resistance, offering short-term relief from political and commercial pressure. Increasingly, that looks less like pragmatism and more like a strategic miscalcula ...

ASIC class relief for digital assets now effective

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2025
... in the latest update of Information Sheet 225 (INFO 225) in October. The ASIC Corporations (Stablecoin and Wrapped Token Relief) Instrument 2025/867 will provide class relief to distributors of eligible stablecoins and wrapped tokens, and was registered ...

ASIC invites feedback on disclosure requirements

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2025
... Additionally, ASIC is looking to get greater transparency over private debt. As a result, the regulator is considering class order relief for superannuation trustees, aligning portfolio holdings disclosure obligations for internally managed private debt ...

ASIC to monitor union redundancy funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
... approach to the regulation of employee redundancy funds under the Corporations Act 2001 (Corporations Act), once the current relief expires on 1 April 2026. Operators of employee redundancy funds and long service leave funds - or employee entitlement ...

Inflation hits 3.8% in October

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2025
... state government rebates being used up by households, as well as the timing of the rollout of the Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief Fund (EBRF) rebates. "In October last year, State Government electricity rebates were in place for Queensland and Western ...

ASIC labels digital assets as financial products

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2025
... and failure to act in a client's best interest. Additionally, in the same announcement, ASIC has proposed regulatory relief for distributors of certain stablecoins and wrapped tokens, as well as relief for custodians of digital assets that are financial ...