Regulatory tracker 2025
The tracker lists and includes links to all new and updated regulatory guides, information sheets, reports, consultation papers, legislative instruments and other documents that have regulatory effect (e.g. ASIC's corporate plans and annual reports), were issued by ASIC, and published on our website in 2025.
Items in this weekly tracker are listed in reverse chronological order and can be refined using the filter options below.
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March 2025
- Legislative Instruments28/3/2025
ASIC Corporations (31-day Term Deposits) Instrument 2025/172
ASIC Corporations (Repeal) Instrument 2025/182
Remakes the relief that is currently provided by Class Order [CO 14/1262] Relief for 31 day notice term deposits, which was due to expire ('sunset') on 1 April 2025, for up to five years.
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ASIC remakes relief instrument for 31-day notice term deposits (news item)
- Legislative Instruments, Regulatory guides28/3/2025
ASIC Corporations (Offers of CHESS Depository Interests) Instrument 2025/180
ASIC Corporations (Repeal) Instrument 2025/181
RG 253 Fundraising: Facilitating offers of CHESS Depository Interests (reissued)
Remakes the relief that is currently provided by Class Order [CO 14/827] Offers of CHESS Depository Interests, which was due to expire ('sunset') on 1 April 2025, for a period of five years.
Also repealed: Class Order [CO 14/1262] Repeal of Class Order [SCO 10/321]
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CS 15 Proposed remake of relief for offers of CHESS Depository Interests
- Info sheets27/3/2025
INFO 258 Continuing professional education requirements for registered liquidators (reissued)
INFO 29 reissued to remove incorrect lodgement guidance for Form 5601 and include guidance on lodgement order for Small Business Restructurings in the flowcharts and another page.
INFO 258 reissued to add an example for pre-ILRA Registered Liquidators showing the difference between renewal periods and CPE periods.
- Regulatory guides20/3/2025
RG 216 Markets Disciplinary Panel (reissued)
Minor updates to reflect recent Panel decisions on the application of the new penalty regime imposed by the Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Corporate and Financial Sector Penalties) Act 2019 and current MDP processes, including that MDP hearings can now be conducted virtually.
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ASIC updates Markets Disciplinary Panel regulatory guidance (news item)
- Notifiable instruments19/3/2025
ASIC Superannuation (Notice of disqualification—Kennedy Weldemariam) Instrument 2025/158
SMSF auditor disqualification notice under section 130F(2) of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act.
- Reports13/3/2025
REP 805 Falling short: Compliance with the small amount credit contract obligations
Summarises findings and observations from ASIC’s review of Australian credit licensees who offered small amount credit contracts from December 2022 to August 2024 following changes to laws governing small amount credit contracts under the Financial Service Reform Act 2022.
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25-036MR ASIC warns that payday lenders may be breaching consumer protection laws
- Consultations10/3/2025
CS 17 Proposed updates to the ASIC Derivative Trade Repository Rules 2023
Proposes amending the ASIC Derivative Trade Repository Rules 2023 (2023 DTR Rules) to:
- re-reference the changed location of definitions in the Corporations Act which have been moved by the Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Law Improvement Package No. 1) Act 2023, and
- make other minor administrative updates.
- Determinations7/3/2025
ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) Determination 2025/140
ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) Repeal Instrument 2025/141
Maintains ASIC's policy of determining the allocation of Equity Market Products to tiers.
Replaces ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) Determination 2024/912 (repealed 4 April 2025).
- Regulatory guides6/3/2025
RG 209 Credit licensing: Responsible lending conduct (reissued)
Updated to clarify how the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP), and other student loan commitments, may be considered by banks and lenders assessing whether a consumer can afford to take on new credit.
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ASIC has updated guidance to clarify treatment of student loan commitments by banks and lenders (news item)
- Info sheets5/3/2025
INFO 100 Margin lending: Getting or varying an AFS licence (updated)
INFO 110 Lenders with carried over instruments (updated)
INFO 132 Applying for a credit licence: Details of professional indemnity insurance (updated)
INFO 210 Unfair contract term protections for consumers (updated)
INFO 211 Unfair contract term protections for small businesses (updated)
INFO 218 Disputes about life insurance (updated)
INFO 229 Limited AFS licensees: Complying with your licensing obligations (updated)
INFO 264 FAQs: Design and distribution obligations for advice licensees and financial advisers (updated)
Minor updates to clarify dispute-related information (e.g. replacing references to ‘external dispute resolution scheme’ with references to the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), where appropriate), and other minor changes to ensure currency.
February 2025
REP 804 ASIC enforcement and regulatory update: July to December 2024
Provides an overview of ASIC’s work and key matters between 1 July and 31 December 2024.
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25-026MR ASIC shuts down 130 investment scam websites per week
- Reports26/2/2025
Seeks engagement from participants in Australia’s capital markets, their advisers and other interested persons on important issues and implications arising from evolving changes in Australia’s capital markets.
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25-021MR Advancing Australia’s regulatory roadmap for public and private capital markets
- Notifiable instruments26/2/2025
ASIC Superannuation (Notice of disqualification—Jean-Marcel Majman) Instrument 2025/124
SMSF auditor disqualification notice under section 130F(2) of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act
- Rules, Reports25/2/2025
REP 808 Response to submissions on CP 379 ASIC CS Services Rules
New clearing and settlement (CS) rules to facilitate competitive outcomes in the monopoly provision of clearing and settlement services under section 828A of the Corporations Act.
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25-019MR ASIC makes new clearing and settlement rules to promote competition
- Consultations18/2/2025
CS 16 Reportable situations – additional relief
Proposes additional relief under the reportable situations regime from reporting certain breaches of the misleading and deceptive conduct provisions and certain contraventions of civil penalty provisions.
Related documents
ASIC proposes further relief for licensees under the reportable situations regime (news item)
- Info sheets17/2/2025
INFO 5 Application to suppress residential address (reissued)
Content simplified to ensure the suppression process is clear for customers and common lodgement errors are avoided, including:
- adding links to the AEC website for further guidance on silent enrolment
- making lodgement requirements clearer, and
- defining how to manage and cancel an existing suppression.
- Regulatory guides13/2/2025
RG 51 Applications for relief (reissued)
RG 108 No-action letters (reissued)
Updates improve and simplify our guidance regarding relief and no-action letters by centralising related guidance and amending outdated references.
The following regulatory guides have been withdrawn because relevant guidance has now been incorporated into RG 51:
- RG 21 How ASIC charges fees for relief applications
- RG 57 Notification of rights of review, and
- RG 208 How ASIC charges fees for credit relief applications
Related documents
ASIC updates guidance for applicants applying for ASIC relief or no-action letters (news item)
- Consultations7/2/2025
CP 382 Low cost credit contracts
Sets out ASIC’s proposals for providing guidance to Australian credit licensees and potential licensees on the obligations that will apply to low cost credit contracts and buy now pay later contracts under the consumer credit regime, including the modified responsible lending obligations in Chapter 3 of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009.
Related documents
ASIC invites feedback on buy now pay later regulatory guidance (news item)
January 2025
- Other30/1/2025
Open letter to superannuation trustees (PDF 262 KB)
Outlines ASIC's guidance for superannuation trustees in preventing, detecting and responding to scams and fraud activity.
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ASIC calls out superannuation trustees for weak scam and fraud practices (news item)
- Consultations24/1/2025
CS 15 Proposed remake of relief for offers of CHESS Depository Interests
Seeks feedback on our proposal to remake Class Order [CO 14/827] Offers of CHESS Depository Interests, which is due to expire on 1 April 2025.
Submissions close 28 February 2025.
Related documents
ASIC proposes to remake relief for offers of CHESS Depository Interests (news item)
- Consultations20/1/2025
CS 14 Proposed remake of relief for employee incentive schemes
Seeks feedback on our proposal to remake two employee incentive scheme (EIS) class orders which are due to expire on 1 April 2025:
- Class Order [CO 14/1000] Employee incentive schemes: Listed bodies, and
- Class Order [CO 14/1001] Employee incentive schemes: Unlisted bodies
Submissions close 22 February 2025.
Related documents
ASIC invites feedback on proposed remake of employee incentive scheme instruments (news item)
- Info sheets17/1/2025
INFO 285 Buy now pay later credit contracts: Credit licensing (new)
Explains the new requirements for credit licensing that apply from 10 June 2025 to anyone engaging in credit activities involving buy now pay later contracts under the Treasury Laws Amendment (Responsible Buy Now Pay Later and Other Measures) Act 2024 (BNPL Act).
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ASIC alerts buy now pay later providers to apply for a licence under new laws (news item)
- Info sheets16/1/2025
INFO 291 FAQs: FSGs and website disclosure information (updated)
FAQ 7 updated to clarify when a providing entity can publish an FSG on its website as an alternative to 'giving' an FSG.
- Consultations13/1/2025
CS 13 Extending relief for business introduction services
Invites feedback on whether the relief under ASIC Corporations (Business Introduction Services) Instrument 2022/805, due to expire on 1 April 2025, should:
- be extended for an additional period in relation to managed investment schemes, and
- reinstate previous relief from Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act in relation to securities, other than debentures.
Related documents
ASIC consults on relief for business introduction services (news item)
- Regulatory guides7/1/2025
RG 246 Conflicted and other banned remuneration (updated)
Commencement date of certain DBFO-related reforms in notes under paras RG 246.56, RG 246.58 and RG 246.77 updated to 9 July 2025.
- Info sheets3/1/2025
INFO 292 FAQs: Informed consents for insurance commissions (updated)
Commencement date of certain DBFO-related reforms updated to 9 July 2025.