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For Most Organisations, It Would Take A Cyber-attack To Meaningfully Improve Focus On Data Risk: HSF Kramer Cyber Risk Survey 2025

While third-party vulnerabilities remain the number one cyber risk for Australian organisations, this risk ranks low in terms of cyber investment priorities in the past 12 months...

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

AML/CTF FAQs for current Reporting Entities

You will need to review and update your AML/CTF Program to ensure that you comply with your amended obligations under the reformed AML/CTF Act and AML/CTF Rules.

Australia Finance

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Holley Nethercote

Digging Deeper with Derivatives: What do mining giants and financial derivatives have in common?

Behind every truckload of iron ore, copper, or lithium, is a complex business model managing global risk – and derivatives are a key part of it.

Australia Finance

TRAction

Regulation Driving Uplift

While there has been significant reform of Australia's cyber-related laws over the last several years – as well as increased signalling from regulators that action...

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Preparing for your AFSL audit: 2025

Australia Finance

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Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Responsible Lending In The Spotlight – Lessons From ASIC v Money3 Loans Pty Ltd (No 3)

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Funds Update - 12 September 2025

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Australian Equity Derivative Disclosure Reforms: One Step Closer

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

M&A Review: Market insights & outlook for 2026

Australia Finance

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Holding Redlich

Wholesale Client Eligibility – Sophisticated Investor and Individual Wealth Tests

Australia Finance

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Holley Nethercote

Inaccuracies In Customer Reporting – Pinning The Tail On The Misleading Or Deceptive Donkey

Australia Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Case note: Synergy Construct Australia Pty Ltd v GSA North Terrace Pty Limited ATF GSA North Terrace Unit Trust [2025] SASCA 72 (Synergy)

Australia Finance

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PCL Lawyers

How to stay out of trouble? Key risks and lessons for Responsible Managers

Australia Finance

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Holley Nethercote

ASIC proposes significant changes to RG 181: What AFSL holders need to know

Australia Finance

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Holding Redlich

AS4000:2025 – What is all the fuss about?

Australia Real Estate

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Swaab

AI For Better Insurance

Australia Technology

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Introducing Cathro Clarity: Unlocking Australia's Insolvency Data

Australia Insolvency

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Cathro & Partners

Blockchain Bites: NASDAQ Bets On Blockchain With Tokenised Stocks And ETFs; ASIC Mints Regulatory Relief For AFSL Licensed Stablecoins; Binance Nears Agreement To End US Monitorship

Australia Technology

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Piper Alderman

August 2025 ESG Policy Update—Australia

Worldwide Environment

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K&L Gates LLP

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Capital Adequacy/BASEL

What to do when the derivative instrument's underlier has no ISIN under EMIR

This article discuss how to populate the ISIN.

Australia Finance

TRAction

ESMA's assessment of the MiFID Trade Reporting Framework

The consultation from October 2024 discusses the revisions proposed to the existing technical standards.

Australia Finance

TRAction

Is reporting at ‘position level' allowed for all EMIR Derivatives?

Position level reporting basically targets aggregated data to show overall exposure across the counterparties concerned.

Australia Finance

TRAction

Should OSFI Rethink AT1 Capital Requirements, Particularly For Federal Credit Unions?

Australia Finance

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Torys LLP

Are you taking reasonable steps to ensure your authorised representatives do not accept conflicted remuneration?

Australia Finance

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Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Operational Resilience – Predicting The Unpredictable

Worldwide Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The 2019 EU Securitisation Regulations And The Australian RMBS Market

Australia Commercial

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Mayer Brown

PPSA in practice - big trouble in little security

Australia Commercial

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Bartier Perry

Tis' the season – Is there a case for seasonally adjusted covenants?

Australia Finance

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Kemp Strang Lawyers

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Debt Capital Markets

Australian M&A Activity Strong Through FY25 Despite Macro Dynamics: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Report

A total of 59 deals were announced in FY25, consistent with the five-year average of 60 deals...

Australia Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Beneath The Surface: Making Up The Deficit - The Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve And Australia's Unrealised Critical Minerals Production Potential

In April 2025, the Albanese Government pledged A$1.2 billion to establish a Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve (Strategic Reserve).

Australia Government

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Lessons From Lifeplan: How Forensic Experts Bolster Legal Strategy

10 years on, FTI Consulting's work on the Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society Ltd case against two of Lifeplan's former employees and the Ancient Order of Foresters in Victoria Friendly Society Limited still offers rich and relevant insights into the intersection of forensic expert evidence and legal strategy.

Australia Litigation

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FTI Consulting

The big issue with issuing – Can it be done without holding an AFSL?

Australia Finance

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Holley Nethercote

Who's in control? Changes of control to a licensed entity and your obligations

Australia Finance

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Holley Nethercote

Can you serve a statutory demand by email in Australia?

Australia Litigation

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Stonegate Legal

Setting Aside a Statutory Demand and Requirements for the Supporting Affidavit – BRC Group v Watagan Park [2025] VSCA 36

Australia Commercial

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McCarthy Durie Lawyers

Embracing Arbitration For Australian Financial Services Disputes

Australia Finance

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Corrs Chambers Westgarth

The Regulation Of Private Markets In Australia—Where To Next?

Australia Finance

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Jones Day

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Corporate Finance

Speeding tickets: ASIC ramps up continuous disclosure enforcement

ASIC increases its enforcement of the continuous disclosure requirements of listed companies under the Corporations Act.

Australia Finance

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DLA Piper Australia

Disclosure and liability requirements for retail corporate bonds could be streamlined

Proposals to streamline disclosure and liability requirements for the retail corporate bond market have been released.

Australia Finance

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Clayton Utz

Appendix to our guide to the AIFM Directive: update post-ESMA advice

On 21 July 2011, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (Directive) came into force.

Australia Finance

NR

Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

The New R&D Tax Credit

MA

Moore Australia

Fact, fiction and securities lending

Australia Finance

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Clayton Utz

ASIC rewrites the rules on prospectuses

Australia Commercial

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Clayton Utz

Private Equity newsletter

Australia Finance

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Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

"The Power of the Network" - ILPA updates its Private Equity Principles

Australia Finance

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Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

The known unknowns: trading halts made easier by ASX

Australia Commercial

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Clayton Utz

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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

Buy Or Rent? Why The Australian Dream Might Be Due For A Makeover

The belief that "rent is dead money and buying is the pathway to prosperity" is widely held in the Australian housing market.

Australia Real Estate

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FTI Consulting

M&A Review: Market insights & outlook for 2026

Recent interest rate cuts and lower tariffs are generally supportive of deal activity, but uncertainty in the US is affecting investor confidence.

Australia Finance

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Holding Redlich

Green Finance In The Australian Commercial Property Market

Major banks have offered green loan products to fund energy efficient commercial properties.

Australia Finance

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Piper Alderman

2025 Banking Code of Practice - key changes affecting lenders and borrowers

Australia Finance

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Bartier Perry

Understanding Unregulated Business Loans

Australia Finance

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Matthews Folbigg Lawyers

ESMA's assessment of the MiFID Trade Reporting Framework

Australia Finance

TRAction

Default Dilemma: Mortgagee in Possession vs Receivership

Australia Finance

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Worrells

Failing to Register a PPSR Security Interest on Time – Legal Risks and Options

Australia Finance

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Swaab

Could a bank enforce a loan agreement with a forged signature? Which case won?

Australia Finance

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Stacks Law Firm

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Insights into the Australian Economic Environment in 2023

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Cathro & Partners

Monitoring your Licence Number through Google Alerts

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Sophie Grace Pty Ltd

Signing loan documents electronically

BP

Bennett & Philp Lawyers

It Depends – So my SMSF has paid out my borrowings under an LRBA (Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangement) - What do I have to do?

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Cooper Grace Ward

Streaming series | Why are there fewer streaming transactions in Australia than in North America?

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Norton Rose Fulbright Australia

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