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  • AML/CTF FAQs for current Reporting Entities

    15 Sep 2025

    I am already a reporting entity enrolled with AUSTRAC. Do I need to update my AML/CTF program? If so, when do I need to do it by? Yes. You will need to review and update your AML/CTF Program to ensur

  • All Over – the Business impact after COVID-19

    21 Oct 2020

    We are all ‘over COVID’, but are we ‘all over’ the business law issues likely to arise when COVID-19 is all over? Our objective with Commercial Corner is to address some of the legal issues

  • AI in Financial Services: Compliance Risks Firms Should Consider

    10 Aug 2026

    Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has shifted from being, until relatively recently, a theoretical possibility to now a practical reality that is deeply ingrained throughout almost every industry in

  • AI Governance in 2026 – new frontiers

    29 Jul 2026

    We are helping multiple organisations develop AI governance frameworks and review existing policies.   Clients are increasingly asking us how existing legal and regulatory obligations apply when

  • AFCA: A fair worry

    08 Oct 2019

    When I was in my second or third year of law school, I remember having to read some EDR scheme decisions to answer the following question: “What role do considerations of fairness play in the EDR de

  • AFCA receives its first report card

    02 Mar 2022

    The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (“AFCA”) has received its first report card since it commenced operations on 1 November 2018. The legislation establishing AFCA required the Minist

  • AFCA – so what is fair?

    20 May 2020

    As I write this in May 2020, we are facing difficult times.  We are grappling with a global pandemic caused by COVID-19.  And, as we experienced during the global financial crisis, complaints appear

  • Advice fees from super – important changes for advice licensees

    04 Dec 2024

    It pays to understand super trustees’ obligations as modified by the DBFO Act when it comes to advice fees.  For an advice licensee, this will be useful when it comes to understanding the obligatio

  • A new AFS licensing regime for Foreign Financial Service Providers

    31 Mar 2020

    Foreign financial service providers will be subject to a new regulatory regime from 1 April 2020, which will require a number of previously exempt foreign financial service providers (FFSPs) to hold a

  • 5 things to know about the FASEA Code of Conduct

    28 Feb 2020

    Those of you caught-up in the wonderful world of FASEA have likely spent more time than you care to count deliberating with colleagues, reading about and considering the impact of the FASEA Code of Et