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APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
Trustees' cyber-resilience is riding high on APRA's enforcement agenda over the next four years, but in the short term the regulator warned it will escalate action where necessary if they cannot prove to have basic measures in place. The prudential ...

ASIC warns of 'sharp rise' in financial misconduct

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
New data shows a significant rise in the number of misconduct reports made to ASIC, with more than half of the complaints impacting retail investors. ASIC's half-year reports of misconduct data shows that there were 7561 reports of misconduct from 1 ...

CEDA calls for 'seamless economy' reforms as Roundtable begins

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
A new report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has called on the government to kick off a new wave of seamless economy reforms and boost its National Productivity Fund. Towards a more seamless Australian economy called ...

ASIC turns spotlight on direct life sales

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2025
ASIC is warning life insurers to do better when it comes to their direct sales practices that have placed doubt on their compliance obligations and put consumer outcomes at risk. While some life insurance firms have improved since ASIC's 2018 review ...

Leaders push for overseas skills recognition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
Industry group leaders and politicians have come together to urge the government to prioritise reform of Australia's overseas skills recognition system at this week's Economic Reform Roundtable. In its submission to the Economic Reform Roundtable, the ...

Mercer Super sued over 'longstanding and systemic' failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
Mercer Super allegedly failed to report seven investigations it undertook into serious member services failures, including one into premiums charged to dead members being refunded incorrectly. Lodged with the Federal Court today, the proceedings allege ...

FICAP RockStar returns to The Beresford in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
... Research, and Thinktank. For sponsorship opportunities, please contact FICAP via email - [email protected]. Additionally, ISS Market Intelligence associate director, marketing Julian Clarkstone and IFM Investors associate director Matthew Leung ...

NAB fined over $15m for delaying hardship applications

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
The Federal Court has ordered National Australia Bank (NAB) and its subsidiary ASFH Nominees to pay a pecuniary penalty of $15.5 million for failing to respond to customers facing hardship. The court found that between 2018 and 2023, NAB and ASFH failed ...

ASIC calls out super 'leaders and laggards'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2025
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant has told super trustees more needs to be done to meet obligations under the Retirement Income Covenant. "We are three years into the Retirement Income Covenant now. Three years since trustees have been obliged by law ...

ASIC to review RG97 to boost property supply

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
ASIC is reviewing the need for superannuation funds to include stamp duty payments in fee disclosures in a bid to boost their investment in property. Super funds have long held concerns that obligations under Regulatory Guide 97: Disclosing fees and ...