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SMC highlights long-term benefits of investing in private markets

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... Commission's (ASIC) discussion paper, outlining how superannuation investments in the private sector can drive long-term financial system stability and prosperity for Australians. SMC believes the nation's stable and sophisticated super system has strongly ...

UK watchdog to open Australian office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... global head of compliance for Westpac's institutional bank. In 2014, she was a principal advisor for Treasury's Financial System Inquiry, after which she made the leap to the UK to join the Central Bank of Ireland's policy and risk team. Her appointment ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
The government will introduce new measures to target perpetrators of financial abuse, as part of its gender equality plan Building Australia's Future: Labor's Commitment to Women, launched yesterday by Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social ...

Taxes and housing dominate election race

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... Australia's housing market by facilitating access to credit and home ownership, supporting the stability of the financial system, and underpinning competition in the lending market. ICA chief executive Andrew Hall said Labor's plan would effectively ...

Bullock hushes rate cut expectations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... seeing the same degree of impact as previous market events like in 2008 for example," she said. "The Australian financial system is strong and well placed to absorb shocks from abroad." Yesterday, NAB chief economist Sally Auld forecasted a 50bp rate ...

ASIC asks for input on reportable situations, IDR dashboards

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... regimes by enhancing transparency and accountability to encourage improved behaviour and increase confidence in the financial system, while also highlighting areas of concentration of significant breaches and complaints and enabling firms to target improvements ...

RBA flags 'policy changes' could derail super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... key financial markets means there is some risk to financial stability. "...liquidity challenges for the broader financial system could arise in the event of large shocks to the superannuation sector; for example, where an unexpected policy change allowing ...

Fink takes private markets to next level

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025
... verified with smartphones. "The takeaway is clear. If we're serious about building an efficient and accessible financial system, championing tokenisation alone won't suffice. We must solve digital verification, too."

RBA and ASIC slam the ASX: 'Deeply disappointed'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025
... actions today. But they are necessary. ASX operates critical infrastructure that plays a central role in the financial system," RBA governor Michele Bullock said. "ASX's management of operational risk has been a concern for RBA staff and the Payments ...

SQM places private credit sector on watch

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
... there may be implications for market integrity, investor outcomes and confident, informed participation in the financial system even at levels of activity that do not pose risks to financial stability," ASIC explained. Recent reporting around Metrics ...