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Investors want regulatory clarity on digital assets: Binance

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... Zealand Matt Poblocki said providing seamless access to the digital asset ecosystem should be at the forefront of the regulator's agenda. "De-banking adds significant friction to the buying and selling of digital assets, discouraging many, or worse still ...

ASIC culls red tape, sets sights on more

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... accessible and easier to navigate, while still maintaining strong consumer protections. ASIC chair Joe Longo said the regulator had heard feedback about its guidance, its website, and its legal instruments. "Regulatory complexity raises costs, stifles ...

Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
Still reeling from the coordinated cyberattack in April, superannuation funds will test their cybersecurity resilience and see what lessons they have learned under a drill provided by the Gateway Network Governance Body (GNGB). Taking place on Thursday ...

FAAA calls for other sectors to help pay $67m CSLR bill

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
In its submission to the Treasury consultation on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) Special Levy for 2025/26, the Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) said financial advisers should not be expected to pay more than the $20 million ...

ASIC permanently bans convicted investment manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
ASIC has permanently banned former investment manager and director Brett Paul Trevillian for fabricating investment reports of his trading strategy 'The Gold Method'. Trevillian, who has been serving a three-year sentence by way of an intensive ...

Societe Generale fined $3.88m

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
Societe Generale (SocGen) has been fined $3.88 million by the Market Disciplinary Panel (MDP), following an ASIC investigation, for failing to prevent suspicious orders from being placed on the electricity and wheat futures market. ASIC said SocGen ...

Chalmers opens Investor Front Door pilot

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2025
The government has launched the pilot program for the Investor Front Door, which aims to make it quicker and easier for investors to back major projects. Treasurer Jim Chalmers said it is designed to improve the investment environment by streamlining ...

Former United Global Capital adviser banned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... Petrovic provided Statements of Advice that were defective and therefore engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct. The regulator said Petrovic did not act in clients' best interests; did not provide appropriate advice; failed to prioritise clients' ...

ASIC piles more charges on Merhi

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2025
... clients, gave conflicted advice, and provided defective statements of advice whilst receiving millions of dollars". The regulator alleged he used marketing companies to push potential clients to his financial advice businesses, Venture Egg and Financial ...

Government scraps inquiry into advice firm failures, Dixon Advisory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2025
The government has dumped the inquiry into wealth management companies that would have dissected the collapse of firms like Dixon Advisory and the impact on the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR). In September 2024, the government referred the ...