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ASIC slams licensees' lax offshoring governance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... offering outsourcing solutions to Australian licensees to understand the services and infrastructure they offered and their cyber security arrangements. The services typically outsourced to these providers are financial planning, including client data ...

ASIC reports 50% jump in investigations in FY25

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2025
... ASIC chair Joe Longo, said investments in the agency's operational capabilities, including in its digital technologies, cyber resilience and data analytics, had paid dividends. "ASIC is becoming the modern, confident and ambitious regulator that Australians ...

Liquidity, operational shocks major issues for super: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2025
... foreign exchange risk, which will require careful liquidity management," it said. The review also highlighted the April cyber attacks which saw criminals attempt to breach the systems of several super funds, and although most attacks were repelled, AustralianSuper ...

GROW recruits HESTA exec to lead product push

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... IPO-stage enterprises through to ASX-50 companies in communications, retail, medtech, fintech and cybersecurity. He joins from cyber-risk SaaS platform UpGuard, where as global vice president he led the people and culture function across 14 countries. ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
About three years ago, robo-advisers, one by one, began dropping like flies. The likes of Six Park, Upstreet and Advice Intelligence either folded or were acquired. Even Ellerston Capital's ethically based robo-adviser, which launched in early 2023 ...

FEATURE: Problem detected

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... targeted given the mounting honey pot of retirement savings they oversee. This highlights the urgency of strengthening "basic cyber hygiene" within their operational and management systems. According to the HLB Cybersecurity Report, 39% of businesses ...

Geopolitics, AI tests prudential regulation: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... to also be thinking about. "It plays into things you're already thinking about, like operational risk management and cyber, and this idea that cyber is a weapon of choice," she recently told a FINSIA event. "There are some other flavours that come ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... "The greatest benefit either comes from a small but significant, say 2-5% uplift, across an entire background process, like cyber systems etc.," he says. This includes AI potentially "radically changing" specific processes like claims adjusting or responding ...

Super funds test cybersecurity resilience

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2025
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief executive Mary Delahunty said: "The initiative is designed to strengthen collective cyber resilience, test coordination capabilities and reinforce preparedness for increasingly complex and sophisticated ...

Binance under microscope over loose controls

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) directed Binance Australia to appoint an external auditor after "serious concerns" were identified from its independent review. The concerns are in relation to the crypto exchange's ...