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What we do

ASIC is Australia's integrated corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator.

Our vision and strategic priorities

Vision

A fair, strong and efficient financial system for all Australians.

To realise our vision we will use all our regulatory tools to:

  • change behaviours to drive good consumer and investor outcomes
  • act against misconduct to maintain trust and integrity in the financial system
  • promote strong and innovative development of the financial system
  • help Australians to be in control of their financial lives.

Strategic and operational priorities

Strategic priorities guide our work in addressing the most significant threats and harms in our regulatory environment.

Operational priorities guide our development of the capabilities we need to support that work now and into the future.

Our strategic and operational priorities, areas of focus and significant work under these priorities, are outlined in ASIC’s Corporate Plan.

ASIC's priorities at a glance

ASIC Strategic Priorities

ASIC's priorities at a glance - text version

Strategic priorities and focus areas

  1. Improve consumer and small business outcomes
    • Misconduct targeting vulnerable consumers and small businesses
    • Scam prevention and disruption
    • Insurance claims and service
    • Impact of AI use
    • Trusted financial education through Moneysmart
    • Payments reforms
  2. Strengthen professional conduct and improve access to reliable financial and business information
    • High-quality and timely financial reporting, valuations and auditing
    • Implementation of the mandatory climate reporting framework
    • Holding directors and auditors to account for misconduct
    • Improving ease of access to and quality of registry data
  3. Support better retirement outcomes and superannuation member services
    • Trustee delivery of fair and informed member services
    • Trustee performance under the retirement income covenant
    • Innovation in advice
    • Misconduct targeting superannuation savings
    • Managed investment schemes oversight
  4. Support effective, resilient and innovative operations
    • Technological, operational, cyber and data resilience across the corporate sector, financial services and markets
    • Crisis preparedness and financial stress responses
    • Effective supervision of critical market infrastructure, including ASX
    • Facilitating competition, innovation, AI and emerging technology
  5. Drive integrity, transparency and confidence across markets
    • Market cleanliness across public and private markets
    • Changing risks, interconnectedness and supervision across private markets
    • Information disclosure
    • Private credit practices, including valuations and liquidity management
    • Digital asset platforms

Operational priorities and focus areas

  1. Build an accountable, capable, and valued team
    • A people-first approach
    • An agile and high performing team
    • A thriving, inclusive and future-ready workforce
    • Systems and processes that make it easier for people to do their best work
  2. Enhance our digital, AI and intelligence capability
    • Better leveraging data and technology for earlier, actionable insights and faster decision making
    • Investing in systems that improve internal effectiveness and efficiency
    • Improving company registration, lodgement and data linking
    • Enhancing register integrity including combating misuse of the registers
    • Making the ASIC website and ASIC Regulatory Portal easier to use
  3. Make it easier and more efficient for our stakeholders
    • Better coordination with fellow regulatory agencies and other elements of the Council of Financial Regulators Better Regulation Roadmap
    • ASIC's ongoing simplification work