ASIC is Australia's integrated corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator and we serve the Australian community.

• 

  Former Gold Coast property developer Michael Steele pleads guilty to fraud

  media release

  10 April 2025

  Former Gold Coast property developer Michael Steele has pleaded guilty to four rolled-up counts of fraud having misappropriated over $1.3 million of investor funds from companies he controlled contrary to section 408C(1)(a)(i) of the Criminal Code (Qld).

• 

  Court orders Falcon Capital and the First Guardian Master Fund to be wound up

  media release

  10 April 2025

  The Federal Court has appointed Ross Blakeley and Paul Harlond of FTI Consulting as liquidators (Liquidators) of Falcon Capital Limited (Falcon) and ordered the Liquidators to wind up Falcon, the First Guardian Master Fund (First Guardian) and related unregistered subsidiary funds.

• 

  ASIC consults on plan to increase visibility of firms’ breach and complaints data

  media release

  10 April 2025

  As part of its commitment to enhance transparency and accountability, ASIC is consulting on plans to publish two dashboards containing firm-level Reportable Situations (RS) and Internal Dispute Resolution (IDR) data in the second half of 2025.

Go to Newsroom