Financial Services Newsletter – August & September

Welcome to the latest edition of our Financial Services Compliance Newsletter.

Each month, we provide key regulatory updates, compliance insights, and industry developments impacting the financial services sector. In this issue, some of the key topics include:

• APRA and ASIC have released their 2026–2027 Corporate Plans

• ASIC has raised further concerns about private credit and halted offers of private credit products.

• ASIC and APRA have urged financial market entities to address risks associated with frontier AI models.

• Treasury is consulting on minimum tax for discretionary trusts, the CSLR special levy waterfall framework and improvements to the MIS sector.

• The government and APRA have announced superannuation reforms

• ASIC has highlighted persistent platform trustee failures in protecting retirement savings.

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