Oceania Reg Desk

Friday, 2026-08-21 · covering the last 24h

Australia

ASIC's CS 59 consultation on sell-side research closes. Submissions on Consultation Paper 59, which proposes replacing the 42-page RG 264 Sell-Side Research guide with a shorter, principles-based document of roughly eight pages, were due today at 5pm AEST. No response paper or outcome has been published yet. CS 59

No material new items from ASX, Cboe Australia or Treasury in the last 24 hours; no outcome yet on CS 60 (low-volume financial markets instrument), which closed for submissions yesterday. The RBA board did not meet in this window; it held the cash rate at 4.35% (unanimous) on 11 August.

New Zealand

No material new items from the FMA or NZX. The RBNZ did not meet in this window; the OCR remains at 2.50%, with the next Monetary Policy Statement due 2 September. The MBIE capital-markets-reform consultation remains open, closing 25 August.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.