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Avoiding a successful Unfair Dismissal claim – Some hints and tips
15 Dec 2020It is said that the most valuable asset of a business can be its employees. Whilst that is usually true, from time to time it becomes necessary, for the good of the business or the harmony of the wo
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Australia Provides Relief for GST Treatment of Digital Currencies
22 Nov 2017The recent changes to the law in Australia align the GST treatment of digital currency with the GST treatment of money (particularly foreign currency). However, it will be important for pu
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ASIC’s enforcement priorities in design and distribution: What we know from recent stop orders and Federal Court decisions
12 Nov 2024Receiving a stop order or Federal Court claim relating to a licensee’s product design is extremely stressful for licensees. We should know! We have helped numerous licensees lift interim stop orde
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ASIC’s 2026 Crackdown: What Licensees Need to Know Now
20 Jul 2026The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released its 2026 enforcement priorities in November last year. Some of the focus areas are continuing areas that ASIC has previously identi
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ASIC’s Product Intervention Power – How does it work?
01 Dec 2020Since 6 April 2019, ASIC has had the power to proactively intervene in relation to a financial or credit product (“product”) or class of products to reduce the risk of significant detriment to con
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ASIC’s Focus on Complex Trading Products Expands Beyond Contracts for Differences (CFDs)
02 Sep 2026ASIC's latest surveillance of online brokers offering short-dated exchange traded options (ETOs), futures and fractional share trading shows that the regulator's focus on high-risk and complex investm
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ASIC v Telstra Super: trustee accountable for internal dispute resolution
04 Aug 2026The Federal Court has found that Telstra Super contravened its obligations regarding its internal dispute resolution (‘IDR’) procedures. However, ASIC was not able to convince the Court that the
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ASIC v HSBC: Is “adequacy” enough to manage cybersecurity risk?
20 Dec 2024While Optus and Medibank come to mind when we think of cyber incidents, ASIC is increasingly enforcing its regulatory priority of licensee failures to have adequate cyber-security protections. Think R
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ASIC REP 828: The Risks of Running a Retail CFD Business
09 Feb 2026ASIC’s recent REP 828 – Risky Business: Driving change in CFD issuers’ distribution practices could, for CFD issuers, just as easily be called Risky Business: Running a retail CFD business in
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ASIC cracks down on financial advisers and licensees
09 Aug 2022Financial advisers and their licensees, take note! ASIC is following up on advisers who haven’t yet completed the financial adviser exam. For most advisers, the thought of the financi