Australia: Finance and Banking

This decision confirms that section 444GA can be utilised to achieve a transfer of shares in circumstances where the transaction provides for value to be paid to shareholders.

Australia is testing the Taxonomy in practice with some of the country's largest financial institutions.

This article discuss how to populate the ISIN.

The recent NSW Civ­il and Admin­is­tra­tive Tri­bunal deci­sion in Nichol­son v The Own­ers – Stra­ta Plan No 104042 [2025] NSW­CATCD 202 pro­vides impor­tant...

The Personal Property Security Act (PPSA) is a comprehensive legal framework designed to regulate the creation, registration and enforcement of security interests in personal property across various jurisdictions, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Its primary goal is to establish clear rules for how lenders and borrowers can secure loans using personal assets, ensuring transparency and predictability in commercial transactions.

You must consider privacy responsibilities if your business collects personal information. Importantly, this includes ensuring that you do not disclose any inaccurate personal information to third-parties.

Senior associate Alfred Jackson examines whether assets held in a specific asset holding company are truly protected from creditors, focusing on the critical role of PPS leases. If a lessor fails to register their security interest properly, leased assets can vest in the lessee's trustee or administrator during insolvency, leaving the lessor as an unsecured creditor attempting to reclaim their own property.

When an insolvency practitioner is appointed to a small or medium enterprise (“SME”), a consistent pattern emerges in relation to the owner’s investment in the company. In the majority of cases, the business owner has put a substantial amount of their own money into the business, typically drawn from savings, a personal loan or a redraw against the family home and that money has either been recorded as share capital or as a loan that was never documented or secured.

When a borrower defaults on a loan, does the lender have an immediate right to repossess property or force a sale? This article examines the negotiation options available to borrowers after loan default, the statutory protections under the National Credit Code, and the enforcement rights and obligations of lenders under Queensland's Property Law Act 2023.

The Australian Government has unveiled comprehensive reforms targeting consumer protections across superannuation and financial services, introducing stricter oversight of APRA-regulated funds, SMSFs, and managed investment schemes. These changes respond to recent high-profile investment failures and include enhanced trustee obligations, strengthened anti-hawking provisions, and modifications to the financial advice framework that could significantly impact compliance requirements for industry participants.

On 19 August 2026, the Federal Government announced a package of reforms in response to the Shield and First Guardian collapses, which impacted almost 12,000 people...

APRA’s most recent accountability enforcement action against Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BAB) for failures to address known cyber weaknesses within its group demonstrates how seriously it takes cyber risk management.