In Inside ASIC we pull back the curtain on the work the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is doing on everything from scams and financial hardship, to insider trading, audit surveillance and regulating AI.
Each episode of the podcast will dive into a different area of our work as told by our people and external guests.
Sarah Bower, Steph Tonkin, and Elisabeth Saunders discuss how ASIC combats increasingly sophisticated scams leveraging artificial intelligence, protecting consumers by removing scam websites and ensuring bank safeguards in this interview episode.
24 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
5. Natural disasters
ASIC Commissioner Alan Kirkland and Julia Davis from the Financial Rights Legal Centre discuss the challenges Australians face with insurance following natural disasters and what insurers must improve, in this interview episode.
17 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
4. ASIC for First Nation people
Danielle Abbott, Jessica Naimo, and Bettina Cooper discuss ASIC's Indigenous Outreach Program and its efforts to prevent financial harm in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in this interview.
10 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
3. Cleaning Greenwashing
Marita Hogan, Andrei Bacu, and Professor Jeremy Moss discuss ASIC's focus on companies making false environmental claims, especially within financial products like super funds, in an interview about greenwashing.
3 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
2. Public Private Markets
Andrew Templer, Jane Eccleston, and Carole Comerton-Forde explore the fundamental changes in Australia’s financial markets due to the rise of less transparent private markets and ASIC's regulatory role in these deals in this interview.
27 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
1. Not so Super
Pippa Lane and Xavier O’Halloran examine ASIC's focus on the superannuation sector, particularly regarding delayed death benefit payments, in an interview that highlights the need for improved trustee practices.
25 May 2025TRANSCRIPT
Inside ASIC Trailer Series 2
This trailer previews the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's (ASIC) second season, which focuses on combating scams, addressing greenwashing, and ensuring super fund accountability.
23 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT
6. The Whole Story
In this episode of Inside ASIC we look at what ASIC does to balance the priorities it pursues, and why sometimes ASIC finds itself in the spotlight for the work it’s doing.
Looking at some of the biggest strategic threats to our financial system that could be looming over the horizon, the Chair of ASIC Joe Longo explains the breadth of the work ASIC does, and how it deals with finite resources.
15 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT
5. Audit Oversight
Auditors play an important role in giving investors
confidence in the integrity of companies’ financial reporting, helping them make informed investment decisions. The role of auditors has been in sharp
focus in recent times, so this episode starts to unpick ASIC's work to improve the integrity and quality of financial reporting and auditing in Australia.
This episode features:
ASIC Commissioner Kate O’Rourke
ASIC CEO Greg Yanco
8 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT
4. Tech Regulation
ASIC has a long history of adapting our regulatory approach in response to new and emerging challenges and technologies. It needs to ensure Australia’s financial
markets and consumers are protected. Law and technology have a long history of working together to support innovation.
In this episode of Inside ASIC we unpick both the challenges and potential of AI in our financial ecosystem.
This episode features:
- Professor Nick Davis, the University of Technology Sydney’s Human Technology
Institute
- Graham Jefferson, Senior Executive Leader for Data, Analytics and AI at ASIC
- Kate Metz, Senior Executive Leader, Regulatory Reform and Implementation at ASIC
1 Oct 2024TRANSCRIPT
3. How clean are the markets
This episode of Inside ASIC takes a look at insider trading, and the work ASIC does to ensure Australia’s equity markets operate in a fair and transparent way that supports Australia’s economy.
A senior investigator at the Commission details the story of one of the country’s most high-profile insider trading cases.
We’re also going to look at ASIC’s much broader role in keeping our markets clean - because the reality is
insider trading is just one way people try to manipulate our markets.
This episode features:
- ASIC Commissioner Simone Constant
- Calissa Aldridge, Executive Director, Markets at ASIC
- Tegan Gosling, Senior Manager, Enforcement.
24 Sept 2024TRANSCRIPT
2. Hardship
The increased cost of living has been putting pressure on a lot of ordinary Australians. While it might not be work ASIC is traditionally known for, it actually plays a vital role in protecting consumers and investors.
In this episode of Inside ASIC we hear about it's recent report, which called out banks and lenders for their poor treatment of customers facing hardship.
This episode features:
- Alan Kirkland, ASIC Commissioner
- Michael Dorman, Senior Manager, Strategic Surveillance at ASIC
- Steph Tonkin, CEO of the Consumer Action Law Centre
ASIC Hardship Report (https://asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/find-a-media-release/2024-releases/24-104mr-asic-report-australians-need-better-hardship-support-from-their-lenders/)
15 Sept 2024
1. Scams
In our first episode we talk about scams, how ASIC is working to detect, prevent and respond to investment scams and help protect Australians from losing their hard-earned money to scammers.
This episode features:
- ASIC’s Deputy Chair Sarah Court
- Jodie Mahoney, ASIC’s Scams Coordinator
- Ged Fitzpatrick, ASIC Senior Executive Leader, International
Protect yourself from scams - Moneysmart.gov.au (https://moneysmart.gov.au/online-safety/protect-yourself-from-scams)
11 Sept 2024
Inside ASIC Trailer
A preview of ASIC's new podcast series, Inside ASIC, where we cover the work of the Commission on everything from scams and mortgage hardship, to insider trading, audit surveillance and regulating AI.
Inside a recent episode
6. Stopping the Scammers
Published 8 Jul 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We can't necessarily control what happens globally, but we can make Australia a less attractive target for scammers. Websites play a key role in the chain of this scam ecosystem without a website to collect contact details, the process stops, and without a website to host a fake investment platform to convince a consumer that their funds are growing. It stops. If we shut down that website, after the consumers deposit a few hundred dollars and before they make a big deposit, well, that's, we've saved that consumer our achievements in that working together with the National Adidas Scam Centre and the whole of ecosystem approach that Australia has. […]
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