Startups

Ask a fintech founder about licensing and you’ll usually hear one of two things: “we’ll get an AFSL when we raise our Series A” or “we don’t need one — we’re …

Ask a founder about their sexual harassment obligations and the answer is usually some version of “we have a policy in the handbook, and if something happens we’ll deal with it”. …

A founder with eighteen months of runway offers a new engineer a two-year contract “to be safe”, with an option to extend if the next round lands. It feels prudent — the company only …

Until 2024, Australia regulated cyber security sideways — through privacy law, critical infrastructure law, directors’ duties and APRA standards. The Cyber Security Act 2024 (Cth) is the first …

Most founders assume the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) — the SOCI Act — is about power stations, ports and water treatment plants. It is. But since the 2021–22 amendments expanded …

Most fintech founders file the design and distribution obligations under “big bank compliance” — something for the product committees of the majors, not a ten-person startup. ASIC sees it …