| 30-Jun-2026 |
AFMA provided additional feedback and analysis to APRA on its proposed changes to liquidity requirements for Foreign ADIs.
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Regulation |
APRA |
| 19-Jun-2026 |
AFMA's submission highlighted that any policy response should be proportionate. The submission did not support the introduction of regular or systematic OTC position reporting to exchanges, nor the expansion of financial regulatory reporting regimes to include physically settled commodity forwards. The submission instead favoured a framework that enhances the use, aggregation and sharing of existing data. There is also agreement that any intervention in OTC markets should remain the responsibility of public authorities and be exercised only in exceptional circumstances.
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Regulation |
IOSCO |
| 04-Jun-2026 |
AFMA provided a short submission to the AER's consultation on Basslink's System Security Network Support Contract encouraging the AER to finalise the decision in time for the intial Basslink Settlement Residue Auction.
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Regulation |
Australian Energy Regulator |
| 29-May-2026 |
Whilst supportive of APRA's review of the liquidity framework, AFMA's submission stated that a sufficiently clear prudential case for material changes to baseline liquidity requirements for bank operations in Australia has not been presented. AFMA agreed that it is prudent to maintain liquidity requirements that reflect global best practice. AFMA cautioned APRA that any material increase in requirements may impact the availability of funding and competition in the local market and requested APRA articulate any specific concerns it holds with the liquidity management or broader system concerns.
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Regulation |
APRA |
| 22-May-2026 |
AFMA's submission supported the proposed measures to boost integrity and transparency in the ACCU
market but expressed concern that the current IRMD proposal risks undermining investment and market confidence. AFMA recommended that DCCEEW further consult on the IRMD design before introducing the Bill to the Parliament.
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Regulation |
DCCEEW |
| 22-May-2026 |
AFMA made a submission supporting a change to an improved charging metric that better aligned with the Government’s stated intention of targeting ‘retail-facing’ firms, and lowering the allocation the subsector to accommodate the inevitable removal of institutional firms from liability. The current metric landing mostly on institutional firms.
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Taxation |
Treasury |
| 18-May-2026 |
AFMA's submission recommended that the Board should recommend that the debt deduction creation rules be narrowed to align to the policy intent, amendments to the definition of “financial entity” to reduce the compliance costs and risks for entities that are clearly financial in nature and exceptions from the expanded definition of “debt deduction” for ADIs, financial entities and securitisation vehicles.
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Taxation |
Board of Taxation |
| 11-May-2026 |
AFMA's submission commended ASIC’s completion of the project to update Australia’s regime and align it with international reporting standards. The submission noted that industry anticipates a change in cadence and a move to more BAU arrangements in this area.
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Regulation |
ASIC |
| 04-May-2026 |
AFMA made a brief submission recommending that the scope of paragraph 2.1 be expanded to allow exempt foreign banks to provide a limited set of wholesale services to sophisticated corporate and wholesale clients, while using the word ‘bank’, ‘banking’ or ‘banker’ in their business name.
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Regulation |
APRA |
| 30-Apr-2026 |
AFMA's submission supported the rule change but suggested that a smaller cash limit may be more appropriate for the gas market.
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Regulation |
AEMC |
| 24-Apr-2026 |
AFMA's submission welcomed the introduction of bio-gas and biomethane and encouraged the Federal Government to liaise with state governments and industry on implementation of new pathways.
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Regulation |
DCCEEW |
| 24-Apr-2026 |
AFMA's submission outlined its concern with the retrospectivity of the amendments and that the concessional 15% rate for CGT events in relation to renewable energy assets should be available to domestic investors and extended beyond 2030. AFMA made a number of technical recommendations in relation to definitions, requirements and exemptions.
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Taxation |
Treasury |
| 21-Apr-2026 |
AFMA's submission recommended providing a minimum 18‑month implementation period from the release of final legislative instruments, adopting a formal transitional supervisory approach and supporting implementation through a targeted regulatory education and communications program to assist the market in understanding new concepts, calculation methodologies and disclosure requirements.
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Regulation |
ASIC |
| 09-Apr-2026 |
AFMA made a submission supporting the the draft determination and rule and thanked the AEMC for acknowledging recommendations made by AFMA and many of its members during the
Directions Paper consultation.
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Regulation |
AEMC |
| 01-Apr-2026 |
While AFMA's submission supported the provision of principal domain information, AFMA is strongly of the view that it should not be a regulatory offence have a presence on a website that has not been advised to the regulator.
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Regulation |
ASIC |
| 31-Mar-2026 |
AFMA's submission encouraged the AER to align its supervisory approach for NEM auto-bidders with the tested approaches taken to automated trading in the financial market.
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Regulation |
AER |
| 23-Mar-2026 |
AFMA’s submission expressed concern that the amount to be recovered from industry included abnormal costs relating to the reform project, which should be out of scope. Additionally, AFMA reiterated its previous view that earnings is an inappropriate metric to determine the contribution amount.
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Regulation |
AUSTRAC |
| 19-Mar-2026 |
AFMA made a supportive submission to ASX’s Consultation Paper on proposed changes to parameters in its Equity Derivatives market. AFMA is supportive of endeavors such as this to improve activity in markets.
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Regulation |
ASX |
| 17-Mar-2026 |
AFMA’s submission proposed exclusion from the regime based on both contracting parties being wholesale rather than having a list of specific industry standard contracts. At a minimum, the submission suggested the Government should make changes to the regime such that the current ASIC relief is not required.
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Regulation |
Treasury |
| 13-Mar-2026 |
AFMA's submission urged a considered implementation of the Gas Martket Review's recommendations and suggested improvements to the governments approach to consultation.
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Regulation |
DCCEEW/DISR |
| 12-Mar-2026 |
AFMA's submission raised concern that the paper and current design lacks appropriate scoping and that there is material risk of unintended capture. AFMA recommended that further consultation was required.
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Regulation |
Treasury |
| 10-Mar-2026 |
AFMA's submission made seven recommendations to the proposed transitional rules. These included recommendations on how the rules are applied, clarity that all travel rule obligations are deferred, and for the rules to allow for different business lines within the same reporting entity to transition from ACIP to ICDD when operationally ready as opposed to simultaneously across the reporting entity.
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Regulation |
Department of Home Affairs |
| 06-Mar-2026 |
AFMA's submission supports the continued indeendance of AEMO in its market operation function, but sees merit in greater oversight of its budget and the separation of ASL from AEMO.
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Regulation |
DCCEEW |
| 20-Feb-2026 |
AFMA's submission supported the proposed changes to Rule 2 1(1) and noted that proposed changes to Rule 2-1(2)(c) are consistent with AFMA's request. While supportive of the theme of the proposed changes to the customer due diligence rules, AFMA recommended tighter language in the drafting of the proposed Rules.
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Regulation |
AUSTRAC |
| 20-Feb-2026 |
AFMA supports proposals that incentivise stacking as well as the intent to introduce or re-introduce methodologies and activities. AFMA further supports proposals to incentivise C&I and multi-dwelling residential batteries.
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Regulation |
NSW DCCEEW |
| 20-Feb-2026 |
AFMA broadly supports proposals to make changes to targets to reduce the ESC surplus to stimulate an increase in scheme activity but maintains that safeguarding supply through the approval of new methodologies should be a high priority . AFMA also supports the proposed changes to existing and new PDRS activities.
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Regulation |
NSW DCCEEW |
| 16-Feb-2026 |
AFMA's submission outlined Australia’s competitiveness, benchmarking against comparable jurisdictions and highlighted the cumulative detreimental impacts of regulatory and tax burden. The submission noted recent important publications and made 12 key recommendations.
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Regulation |
Select Committee on Productivity in Australia |
| 16-Feb-2026 |
AFMA's submission, although ultimately supportive of DEM’s decision to align with the national reforms, made a number of technical recommendations. AFMA maintains that SA specific settings are not required. AFMA's key recommendations are to adopt a wider spread specification and that the prompt quarter should be excluded.
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Regulation |
South Australia Department for Energy and Mining |
| 16-Feb-2026 |
AFMA's submission was generally supportive of the proposed methodology and conventions. The submission raised some technical questions to deepen AFMA's understanding of proposals and to see if there are refinements that may be possible before go live.
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Regulation |
ASX |
| 13-Feb-2026 |
AFMA supported the Government's intention to better coordinate gas market intervention powers but cautioned that the framework should be designed to minimise its impact on the market.
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Regulation |
DCCEEW |
| 30-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submision made sixteen clear and actionable proposals that would generate genuine boosts in the productivity and economic growth in the wholesale financial services sector.
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Regulation |
Treasury |
| 30-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission highlighted that Australian specific considerations are required and should be aligned with domestic policy and that the proposed deliverability market boundaries for Australia are inappropriate. AFMA recommended that the SSS guidance should be clarified to explicitly not capture government owned enterprises, ensuring continued competitive neutrality.
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Regulation |
Greenhouse Gas Protocol |
| 30-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission outlined how APRA can further reduce the burden on industry and service providers, without undermining entity or system resilience, by incorporating additional amendments.
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Regulation |
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority |
| 30-Jan-2026 |
AFMA supported DCCEEW’s proposals to streamline regulatory governance arrangements but noted the proposed cross-market misconduct provisions confuse the AER and ASIC’s responsibilities and risk penalising beneficial market activity.
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Regulation |
DCCEEW |
| 29-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission supported the Panel’s decision to retain the current approach to market settings and recommended that APC be indexed to ensure it remains commercially appropriate.
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Regulation |
Reliability Panel |
| 21-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission recommended this Bill’s efficient passage, without amendment.
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Regulation |
Senate Standing Committees on Economics |
| 05-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission was broadly supportive of the approach taken in the position paper and made two recommendations to give effect to the policy position of excluding wholesale banking.
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Regulation |
Treasury |
| 05-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission was broadly supportive, at least in principle, of the majority of proposals made. AFMA did however make some additional suggestions in relation to Measure 4 and sought additional confirmation in Measure 5.
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Regulation |
Home Affairs |
| 05-Jan-2026 |
AFMA's submission was broadly supportive of the approach taken in the position paper and made two recommendations to give effect to the policy position of excluding wholesale banking.
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Regulation |
Treasury |