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Challenger-led consortium bids for Pepper Money

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2026
... in residential mortgages at the end of September 2025. Pepper Money signed a binding asset sale agreement to acquire the legal title to the loans and will be appointed as servicer of the portfolio.

Government consults on victim access to child sex abusers' super

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2026
After stagnating for several years, the government has released draft legislation to prevent convicted child sexual abusers from hiding their assets in superannuation to avoid compensating their victims. Identical to the January 2023 discussion paper ...

ASIC welcomes new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2026
... second five-term in 2018. Court also served as a senior executive lawyer for the Australian Government Solicitor, a central legal service that is part of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department. "Under her leadership, ASIC has delivered some ...

Palisade restructures leadership, creates partnership group

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... Additionally, Vicki Rigg was appointed as a partner responsible for governance and risk; Ben Malone will continue to lead Palisade's legal function as group general counsel; and finally, Will Clarke will remain responsible for operations and ESG as head ...

ASX to spend $264m to modernise tech, uplift risk management

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... inquiry panel's interim report and updated its view of FY26 costs associated with trading volumes and the timing of various legal actions. It reported a jump of 8.3% in profits after tax to $263.6 million in the first half of the financial year. Operating ...

Totality Wealth chief executive exits, replacement named

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2026
... Rasmus Korfits takes the role of chief executive within Totality Wealth after serving as executive director and head of legal since August of last year. Korfits has been with the Saxo Bank Group for nearly eight years, starting out as an associate director ...

AI, operational failures key regulatory risks for ASIC in 2026

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2026
... certain managed investment schemes," ASIC said. ASIC said it is closely working with government and consumer groups to address legal and regulatory gaps and deliver education campaigns to empower Australians to better identify risks to their retirement ...

New vertical integration model to sprout in 2026: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2026
... solutions all saw rapid growth. Solving the horrible job of doing file notes. Similar trends were seen in the medical and legal fields," the report said.

Danish pension fund dumps US bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A Danish pension fund is divesting all US government bonds from February 1, citing the country's growing debt crisis. Akademiker Pension, the $36 billion pension fund for academics, is selling off all its US government bond holdings, to the tune ...

HUB24 advances HTFS Nominees takeover, FUA hits $152bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2026
... two superannuation trustee entities. The other is Equity Trustees Superannuation Limited (ETSL), which is currently facing legal action from ASIC, accused of not doing enough to prevent superannuation members losing millions of dollars from the Shield ...