Issue #7
26 October 2026 • Edited by Finance Desk
A week of deadlines. Climate reporting's second wave, privacy rules for automated decisions, a coming ban on non-competes, AUSTRAC's first fines under the expanded AML regime and the end of drip pricing in 2027. Merchants are still waiting on card-fee cuts, and we profile Matt Comyn, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Melanie Perkins and Sarah Court.
Thousands more companies are now in their first mandatory climate reporting year, as ASIC publishes its verdict on the first reports and Treasury consults on easing the regime’s costs.
Read the full story →Mandatory climate reporting will never apply to most small businesses directly. That is not the same as it never reaching them.
Read the full story →From 10 December 2026, businesses covered by the Privacy Act must disclose in their privacy policies when computer programs use personal information to make or substantially inform significant decisions.
Read the full story →Draft legislation released in September would ban non-compete clauses for workers earning under $190,100, with the government aiming for the reforms to take effect in 2027.
Read the full story →Four months after “tranche 2” anti-money laundering obligations took effect, AUSTRAC has begun issuing infringement notices to businesses that failed to enrol.
Read the full story →Only a handful of card acceptance plans have passed on the Reserve Bank's interchange reduction, and the data that would settle the question does not land until January.
Read the full story →Nine dated changes, in order, with the proposals marked as proposals. Most of them need work started well before the date itself.
Read the full story →Eight years into the job, Commonwealth Bank’s chief executive delivered an $11 billion cash profit and growth in all five core domestic product lines, just as rising rates test borrowers.
Read the full story →Atlassian’s co-founder and sole chief executive has cut staff, rebuilt the company around AI and is arguing that the “SaaSpocalypse” is overblown.
Read the full story →Canva’s co-founder and chief executive chose to slow her company’s biggest AI launch to fix its economics, and she has paid for it with a valuation markdown.
Read the full story →Five months into her term as the first woman to chair ASIC, Sarah Court is doing what she did as deputy: taking companies to court.
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