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ASIC flags stronger fintech collaboration

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2026
... officer Mariana Paun said Zepto spent seven months approximately $1.5 million building foundational security and governance systems before launching products. "For us, a sandbox, for example would have been quite important because we have to make that ...

More advisers go self-licensed to avoid associative risks

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2026
... practices will not be the ones who do the most internally, they will be the ones who design the most intelligent operating systems." Meanwhile, Euvrard highlighted the industry is currently undergoing a "fundamental shift", with some 67 Australian financial ...

Westpac fined $26m for financial hardship neglect

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... contrary, Justice McEvoy said, "while the contraventions were not suggested to be deliberate and arose instead from inadequate systems and operational failures, I have accepted that they were grossly negligent." "A particularly serious aspect of Westpac's ...

MPC Markets partners with HeirWealth

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
... components. MPC Markets chief executive Mark Gardener said the firm selected Atlas after reviewing multiple reporting systems currently available in the market. "Atlas was the only one that handled the full picture: multi-broker, multi-currency, FX-attributed ...

AFCA appoints lead superannuation ombudsman

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
... vulnerable consumers when it should have ceased. AFCA said the findings highlighted growing importance of operational systems, oversight mechanisms and escalation processes in ensuring firms appropriately respond to vulnerable customers.

Financial services failing to provide consistent outcomes: AFCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... operational failures such as delays, administrative errors or rigid system processes may have amplified consequences where systems were not sufficiently responsive to individual circumstances." Based on the ombudsman's investigation, these matters occured ...

ASFA joins Finance Industry Council of Australia

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026
... and super funds play an increasingly influential role across capital markets, infrastructure investment and financial systems.

QIC Ventures helps raise $25m for defence tech company

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2026
... won contracts with the US Department of War following competitive evaluations against US incumbents. Arkeus' sensing systems is said to detect targets up to eight times further than existing optical systems in degraded visual conditions, when compared ...

InterPrac targets First Guardian victim, disputes AFCA ruling

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... said: "Victims are no longer just fighting to recover their retirement savings. We are now being forced to fight the very systems that was supposedly created to protect us." "What is the point of having a mandatory external dispute resolution scheme ...

UniSuper makes investment changes for High Growth option

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2026
... UniSuper's negative screens will allow the portion of reported revenue a company may derive from conventional weapons systems and components to be up to 5%, instead of up to 1% currently, for the Sustainable Balanced, Sustainable High Growth, and Global ...