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ASX to launch overnight repo funding rate

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2026
... complementing the long-relied upon Bank Bill Swap Rate (BBSW) and Australian Overnight Index Average (AONIA) as core reference rates for funding, lending, derivatives, and risk management, the exchange said. "Together, BBSW, SOFIA and AONIA provide market ...

ASIC zeroes in on recurring compliance breaches

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2026
ASIC has warned financial advice licensees to address lapses in reference checking, professional indemnity insurance and superannuation advice practices in an update released this week. The regulator has recently released new guidance for professional ...

JANA launches private credit trust

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2026
... Cliffwater Direct Lending Index, net of fees, unlevered and hedged into Australian dollars, providing a more relevant reference point for measuring private credit performance than traditional cash-style benchmarks. JANA Investment Trusts head of investments ...

Guardians farewells head of asset allocation

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2026
... recently finalised a series of important investment governance reviews, including the five-yearly review of the fund's reference portfolio," Dunstan added. "He leaves the Guardians with our best wishes and our thanks for the excellent contribution he ...

Former Berndale director jailed for $700k in misused funds

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2026
Former Berndale Capital Securities director Stavro D'Amore has been sentenced to almost four years' imprisonment after admitting to dishonestly misusing nearly $700,000 of company funds and authorising false statements to ASIC. The Federal Court sentence ...

Pengana threatens legal action against PIA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2026
... shareholders and is intended to provide investors with the option of exiting their investment at a price determined by reference to after-tax net tangible assets (NTA) or remaining invested in the company's future strategy. WAM successfully took ...

ASX to rejig corporate governance framework

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2026
... said. "They give investors a consistent basis on which to assess governance quality, while giving boards a structured reference for good governance arrangements that can evolve with the entity's size, maturity and circumstances." The revised principles ...

New 'high-risk' derivatives on the rise

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2026
... exclusively available to wholesale investors. "Equity perpetual contracts are synthetic perpetual derivative contracts that reference an OKX-calculated index, providing synthetic exposure to the price movements of selected equities and commodities. Clients ...

ICS secures mandate for UK specialist fund manager

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2026
... data domains into a centralised, auditable hub, to unify positions, transactions, sustainability data, pricing, and reference data across Impax's data provider landscape. The implementation will enable Impax to automate data management across custodians ...

Block Earner found to have offered an unlicensed financial product

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2026
... The court also accepted ASIC's argument that Earner was a derivative as the amount returned to investors varied by reference to the value of the digital asset and exchange rates, ASIC said. Block Earner does not have an AFSL but is an AUSTRAC-registered ...
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