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Heightened cyber threats require greater accountability on governance

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... continues to scale, the business was outgrowing its legacy customer relationship management (CRM) system, which creates compliance risks in many ways. "We have many tools that the team had to use across sales and support, not necessarily having a unified ...

Scarcity Partners takes minority stake in Infocus

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... notes the deal reflects growing demand for strategic capital among advice businesses as advisers contend with rising compliance obligations, technology costs and increasingly complex client needs. Infocus said it currently has 270 advisers and nearly ...

Generation Life snags super fund's head of risk

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2026
... Brouwer is joining the annuity provider as chief risk officer, after spending over a year as head of business risk and compliance for enablement, transformation and performance at Aware Super. She brings close to 20 years of experience across risk and ...

MUFG scores administration mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
... members benefit from a secure, scalable service model underpinned by modern digital capability and strong risk and compliance disciplines. ElectricSuper, a South Australian exempt public sector superannuation fund, serves approximately 3300 members ...

ATO sounds alarm as Payday Super deadline nears

VINNY VUCAGO  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2026
... ATO's Small Business Superannuation Clearing House on June 30. The ATO said it would adopt a "reasonable and practical" compliance approach during the first year or implementation, focusing enforcement efforts on employers deliberately avoiding obligations ...

Macquarie shareholders question its climate change commitment

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... finances with the goal of net zero by 2050 and if so, how it plans to assess its fossil fuel financing activity for compliance. Shareholders have requested the resolution, coordinated by Market Forces, be included for consideration at Macquarie's ...

APRA sharpens oversight, flags tech and geopolitical risks

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... exemptions from certain contractual obligations for arrangements with non-traditional service providers where strict compliance is not practical, including government agencies, payment system operator's and financial market infrastructure providers. ...

ASIC launches action against Equity Trustees for $65m First Guardian failures

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026
... information before onboarding First Guardian such as its constitution, audited financial accounts or an audit of its compliance plan. Further, ASIC alleges that Equity Trustees allowed its members to invest 100% of their funds in First Guardian despite ...

Data, compliance key to successful technology-enabled advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... embracing artificial intelligence (AI), experts urge not to overlook two key areas before they go all in: data quality and compliance. Before considering anything else, a panel of technology and advice experts stressed the importance of starting at the ...

Government to fast track low-risk foreign investments

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... low-risk investors. The changes will eliminate approval requirements for some low-risk transactions, ensure more agile compliance and enforcement powers to better respond to non-compliance and increase screening requirements for targeted investments ...