Payday lender Abaz Pty Ltd (Abaz), which offers loans nationally through the ‘ website, has paid a $42,500 penalty after ASIC issued it with an infringement notice for failing to obtain required ...

This report summarises the findings and recommendations from ASIC's review of the sale of direct life insurance products in Australia, including term life, accidental death, trauma, total and ...

Released 15 June 2026. Comments due 27 July 2026. This consultation paper seeks feedback on a draft regulatory guide for market participants on pre-hedging. The draft guide aligns with IOSCO’s ...

Released 29 July 2025. This report follows on from Report 785 Better Banking for Indigenous consumers. It provides an update on the banking sector’s progress on addressing fees charged to low-income ...

ASIC has today published regulatory guidance to assist in the application of the new best interests duty for mortgage brokers, which comes into effect in 2021. The new obligations were legislated by ...

This report is about Australian financial services (AFS) licensees in the funds management industry with multiple business divisions. It highlights the key issues that were identified in our review of ...

Calissa Aldridge, the current Senior Executive Leader for Markets Supervision, has been appointed Executive Director, Markets Group. Rhys Bollen, the current Senior Executive Leader for Credit, ...

You can wind up a solvent company that is no longer in business. You do this by declaring solvency and publishing notice of a special resolution.

RG 263 sets out the principles and processes relating to the Financial Services and Credit Panel (FSCP).

Key points: Business names, company names and trading names are different things. If you conduct business under a name other than your own, you must register a business name. You may also need to ...

Within online services for business name holders, you can: log in or sign up to ASIC's portals learn about ASIC's online services and processes access user guides read FAQs. Within online services for ...

RG 168 is a guide for persons responsible for Product Disclosure Statements (PDSs) and other disclosure obligations (i.e. Australian financial services licensees, authorised representatives and ...