joe longo

The legislative threads surrounding financial services “look less like an elegant tapestry and more like a painting by Jackson Pollock”, the ASIC chair said, before announcing a new thinktank to reassess ways the regulator can help make the system more efficient and less complex.

Rather than striving to tick legal boxes, the commissioner said, compliance teams should build their work practice around the right ethical pillars to engender trust with consumers and investors.

The chair will take a hard line on DDO and crack down on scams, but his major concern is crypto misinformation. “My job is to be frank with the Australian people,” he said.