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Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2026
Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year. The financial services technology provider has updated its full year earnings ...

ASIC cancels Trive Financial's AFSL as review into CFDs continues

VINNY VUCAGO  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2026
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence (AFSL) of contracts for difference (CFD) issuer Trive Financial Services Australia, after determining the company was no longer carrying on a financial services business in Australia. The ...

FAAA urges insolvency crackdown to curb soaring CSLR costs

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2026
The Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) has called for tougher insolvency rules to prevent "phoenixing" activity. The FAAA said loopholes which shift costs of failed financial advice businesses onto the broader profession through the Compensation ...

SS&C to accept digital cash for tokenised investments

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2026
SS&C Technologies Holdings is planning to adopt digital cash such as stablecoins and tokenised commercial bank deposits during the transactions of tokenised investments. The planned capabilities are designed to support future atomic settlement, SS&C ...

ICS secures mandate for UK specialist fund manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2026
Investment Control Systems (ICS) has been selected to provide strategic investment data management and analytics solution for a UK specialist fund manager via its ATHENA platform. ICS will implement ATHENA to consolidate Impax Asset Management's core ...

June adviser exam registers 72% pass rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2026
ASIC reported a 71.7% pass rate in the latest round of financial adviser exam results. Some 209 people sat the exam, including 137 first-timers, in June. Of the first-timers, 75.9% or 104 passed the exam. To date, 22,748 individual candidates have sat ...

ASIC ceases a further 26 authorisations after review

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2026
ASIC has completed the review on the Financial Advisers Register (FAR) relating to compliance with the qualifications standard that took effect on 1 January 2026, as adviser numbers plummeted below 15,000 entering the new financial year. The review ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of Capital Guard over fake bond sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2026
ASIC has cancelled the Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) of Capital Guard after finding that it had engaged in dishonest conduct, including the selling of a fake bond and providing false documents to its auditor. ASIC said the licence was ...

ASIC makes first move since putting private credit on notice

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2026
The market watchdog has made interim stop orders against two products operated by Stratfund, suspecting deficiencies in the target market determinations (TMD) for both products. Offered under the Australian Fixed Income Fund, the products in question ...

Treasury publishes final report into the ERS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2026
The final report into the Enhanced Regulatory Sandbox (ERS) has been published by Treasury with six recommendations being made. Minister for financial services Daniel Mulino said the government would consider the recommendations and provide a response ...