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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June 2025
- Regulatory guides, Info sheets16/6/2025
RG 1 Applying for and varying an AFS licence (reissued)
RG 105 AFS licensing: Organisational competence (updated)
RG 121 Doing financial services business in Australia (updated)
RG 131 Funds management: Establishing and registering a fund (updated)
RG 140 Strata schemes and management rights schemes (updated)
RG 148 Platforms that are managed investment schemes and nominee and custody services (updated)
RG 166 AFS licensing: Financial requirements (updated)
RG 176 Foreign financial services providers (updated)
RG 179 Managed discretionary accounts (updated)
RG 262 Crowd-sourced funding: Guide for intermediaries (updated)
INFO 65 Resignation of an auditor of a public company (reissued)
INFO 86 How do RSE and AFS licensing application processes work together? (reissued)
INFO 100 Margin lending: Getting or varying an AFS licence (reissued)
INFO 134 Complying with your obligations if both credit licensee and AFS licensee (reissued)
INFO 156 Regulated emissions units: Applying for or varying an AFS licence (reissued)
INFO 225 Crypto-assets (updated)
INFO 243 Licensing requirements for providers of funeral expenses facilities (reissued)
INFO 251 AFS licensing requirement for trustees of unregistered managed investment schemes (reissued)
INFO 253 Claims handling and settling: How to comply with your AFS licence obligations (reissued)
INFO 293 Requesting eligible applicant authorisation (new)
New and updated guidance to help AFS licence applicants submit applications and make notifications to ASIC using ASIC's new digital portal.
The following regulatory guides have been withdrawn because the content has been integrated into RG 1 and the ASIC Regulatory Portal:
- RG 2 AFS Licensing Kit: Part 2 – Preparing your AFS licence or variation application
- RG 3 AFS Licensing Kit: Part 3 – Preparing your additional proofs
Related documents
ASIC launches new portal for Australian financial services licensees (news item 25/5/2025)
- Info sheets6/6/2025
INFO 286 FAQs: Ongoing fee arrangements and consents (updated)
Updated to account for ASIC's limited no-action position in response to a specific issue raised by the advice industry about the inclusion of account numbers in a client’s written consent for the deduction, or arranging of the deduction, of ongoing advice fees.
Related documents
ASIC grants limited no-action position for deficient advice fee written consents (news item)
- Other5/6/2025
APRA-ASIC letter on premium increases in life insurance 5 June 2025 (PDF 195 KB)
Update on the progress life companies (life insurers and friendly societies) have made in addressing issues related to premium increases, product design, and disclosure and marketing materials.   
Related documents
ASIC and APRA provide update on review of life insurance premium practices (news item)
- Determinations5/6/2025
ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) Determination 2025/342
ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) Repeal Instrument 2025/343
Maintains ASIC's policy of determining the allocation of Equity Market Products to tiers.
Replaces ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) Determination 2025/140 (repealed 4 July 2025).
- Info sheets1/6/2025
INFO 30 Fees for commonly lodged documents (reissued)
Updated to account for indexation of fees and charges for FY 2025-26.
May 2025
- Consultations28/5/2025
Proposes remaking ASIC Corporations (Basic Deposit and General Insurance Product Distribution) Instrument 2015/682, which was due to sunset on 1 October 2025, in substantially the same form.
Related documents
ASIC proposes to remake basic deposit and general insurance product distribution legislative instrument (news item)
- Notifiable instruments22/5/2025
ASIC Corporations (ASIC CS Services Rules Limited Exemption–ASX Clear) Instrument 2025/256
ASIC Corporations (ASIC CS Services Rules Limited Exemption–ASX Settlement) Instrument 2025/257
Provide a conditional temporary exemption from certain CS Services Rules until 1 July 2025.
- Registered waivers19/5/2025
ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Capital, Securities Markets) Barclays Capital Asia Limited Waiver Amendment Instrument 2025/153
Exempts Barclays Capital Asia Limited from certain reporting requirements in the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Capital) 2021 and the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Securities Markets) 2017 by extending the term of ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Capital, Securities Markets) Barclays Capital Asia Limited Waiver 2022/516.
- Info sheets19/5/2025
INFO 284 Public companies to include a consolidated entity disclosure statement in their annual financial report (reissued)
Update reflects recent legislative amendments that clarify the tax residency disclosure requirements where entities are resident in more than one jurisdiction, as well as when an entity is an ‘Australian resident’ for the purposes of the consolidated entity disclosure statement, including partnerships and trusts.
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25-079MR ASIC announces financial reporting and audit focus areas for FY 2025-26
- Consultations16/5/2025
CS 19 Proposed remake of incidental retail cover legislative instrument
Proposes remaking ASIC Corporations (Incidental Retail Cover) Instrument 2022/716 that exempts insurers and brokers from certain retail client obligations, specifically when incidental retail cover provided in business insurance contracts.
Submissions close 16 June 2025.
Related documents
ASIC proposes to remake incidental retail cover legislative instrument (news item)
- Consultations15/5/2025
CS 18 Proposed remake of financial advice-related legislative instruments
Proposes remaking for a further five years the following legislative instruments relating to licensing and disclosure relief for particular forms of general advice and dealing that are scheduled to sunset on 1 October 2025:
- ASIC Corporations (Advertising by Product Issuers) Instrument 2015/539
- ASIC Corporations (General Advice Warning) Instrument 2015/540, and
- ASIC Corporations (Financial Services Guides) Instrument 2015/541.
Submissions close 12 June 2025.
Related documents
ASIC proposes to remake three financial advice-related legislative instruments (news item)
- Regulatory guides, Info sheets8/5/2025
RG 281 Low cost credit contracts (new)
RG 203 Do I need a credit licence? (updated)
RG 204 Applying for and varying a credit licence (updated)
RG 205 Credit licensing: General conduct obligations (updated)
INFO 103 FAQs: Getting a credit licence (reissued)
INFO 104 FAQs: Complying with your credit obligations (reissued)
INFO 105 FAQs: Dealing with consumers and credit (reissued)
INFO 126 Credit representatives (reissued)
INFO 134 Complying with your obligations if both credit licensee and AFS licensee (reissued)
New and updated guidance to help buy now pay later providers understand their obligations, ahead of new laws coming into effect on 10 June 2025.
Related documents
25-069MR ASIC releases new regulatory guidance to support buy now pay later industry reforms
CP 382 Low cost credit contracts (Submissions and Summary of feedback)
April 2025
- Notifiable instruments30/4/2025
ASIC Superannuation (Notice of disqualification—Allan Tan) Instrument 2025/0249
SMSF auditor disqualification notice under section 130F(2) of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act.
Related documents
- Info sheets16/4/2025
INFO 293 Requesting eligible applicant authorisation (new)
Explains the process for individuals or entities who want to be authorised as eligible applicants by ASIC under the Corporations Act, which enables them to apply to a court to conduct or take part in public examinations related to the affairs of a company in external administration.
Related documents
ASIC releases guidance on requesting eligible applicant authorisation (news item)
- Info sheets16/4/2025
INFO 135 Annual compliance certificates for credit licensees (updated)
Atachment updated to reflect the removal of the annual compliance fee in 2018.
- Consultations11/4/2025
CP 383 Reportable situations and internal dispute resolution data publication
Sets out ASIC’s approach to publication, at a firm level, of:
- data about reportable situations reports submitted to ASIC, and
- data about internal dispute resolution submissions to ASIC.
In particular, this paper sets out our proposals regarding:
- how we will present and contextualise the data
the scope of the data we will publish, and - the data elements we propose to publish.
Submissions close 14 May 2025.
Related documents
25-054MR ASIC consults on plan to increase visibility of firms’ breach and complaints data
- Info sheets2/4/2025
INFO 88 Notifying ASIC of the appointment of an AFS authorised representative (reissued)
INFO 91 Who can be an authorised representative of an AFS licensee (reissued)
INFO 250 Giving AFS and credit licensees information about their representatives (reissued)
INFO 260 Timeframe for passing the financial adviser exam (reissued)
INFO 268 Relevant providers who provide tax (financial) advice services (reissued)
INFO 270 Warnings and reprimands (reissued)
INFO 273 FSCP decisions: Your rights (reissued)
INFO 276 Registration for relevant providers (reissued)
INFO 277 Registration of relevant providers: Guidance on making declarations (reissued)
INFO 281 Accessing the experienced provider pathway (reissued)
Updated to ensure currency and reflect reforms introduced by the Corporations Amendment (Professional Standards of Financial Advisers) Act 2017.
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March 2025
- Regulatory guides, Legislative Instruments, Reports31/3/2025
RG 280 Sustainability reporting (new)
ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2025/164
REP 809 Response to submissions on CP 380 Sustainability reporting
RG 280 updated to provide guidance for entities that are required to prepare a sustainability report containing climate-related financial information under Chapter 2M of the Corporations Act. This may include companies, registered schemes, registrable superannuation entities, and retail corporate collective investment vehicles.
ASIC has also extended the relief in ASIC Corporations (Financial Reporting by Stapled Entities) Instrument 2023/673 and amended ASIC Corporations (Electronic Lodgment of Financial Reports) Instrument 2016/181 to allow stapled entities to prepare a consolidated sustainability report for the stapled group and facilitate electronic lodgement of sustainability reports.
REP 809 provides detail about ASIC’s responses to the submissions received during the consultation process, including how the feedback was addressed in RG 280.
Related documents
25-051MR ASIC issues sustainability reporting regulatory guide
What small businesses need to know about sustainability reporting requirements (news item)
CP 380 Sustainability reporting (Non-confidential submissions in response to CP 380)
- Other31/3/2025
Joint ASIC-RBA letter regarding management of operational risk at ASX (PDF 297 KB)
Outlines further steps to address increasing ASIC and RBA concerns over the management of operational risk at ASX, following the CHESS batch settlement failure incident that occurred on 20 December 2024.
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25-050MR RBA and ASIC act on deep concerns with ASX
Written notice of requirement to appoint an expert to provide ASIC with a report (PDF 303 KB)
Letter accompanying ASIC's notice to ASX (PDF 235 KB)
- Reports31/3/2025
REP 806 Taking ownership of death benefits: How trustees can deliver outcomes Australians deserve
Provides detailed observations from ASIC's review of the death benefit claims handling practices of 10 superannuation trustees. It identifies better practices, as well as systemic failures by some trustees that exposed grieving Australians to added emotional and financial distress.
Related documents
- Info sheets31/3/2025
INFO 5 Application to suppress residential address (reissued)
Reissued to ensure currency.
- 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.
Related documents
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 14/1276] Repeal of Class Order [SCO 10/321]
Related documents
CS 15 Proposed remake of relief for offers of CHESS Depository Interests (Non-confidential submission)
- 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.
- Legislative Instruments27/3/2025
ASIC Corporations (Employee Incentive Schemes—Ongoing Relief) Instrument 2025/169
ASIC Corporations (Repeal) Instrument 2025/170
Remakes the following class orders that were due to expire ('sunset') to assist entities that have obligations in relation to employee incentive schemes (legacy schemes):
- [CO 14/978] Employee incentive schemes: Personal offers
- [CO 14/1000] Employee incentive schemes: Listed bodies
- [CO 14/1001] Employee incentive schemes: Listed bodies
- Notifiable instruments27/3/2025
ASIC Corporations (Amendment) Instrument 2025/184
Amends ASIC Corporations (Derivative Trade Repository Rules—DDRS) Instrument 2023/725
- 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.
Related documents
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.
Related documents
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.
Submissions close 8 April 2025.
- 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.
Related documents
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.
Related documents
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.
Related documents
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.
Submissions close 11 March 2025.
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)
CS 11 Proposed updates to RG 51 and RG 108 (Non-confidential submissions)
- 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.
Submissions close 7 March 2025.
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.
Related documents
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).
Related documents
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.
Submissions close 5 February 2025.
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.