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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is calling on Australian Listed companies to follow the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TFCD) recommendations.
This comes more than a month after the announcement the at the Conference of Parties (COP) the that the International Sustainability Standards Board (IS...
By Kwame Slusher
This week the GRC Institute hosted an event run by Deloitte looking at 37031 Compliance Management System through the lens of culture.
The new international standard in compliance management was published in the first quarter of 2021.
A panel consisting of the GRC Institute Chair & Partner Deloitte for the Asia Pacific Heather Loewenthal,...
By Kwame Slusher
Former Director James Cruikshank has been banned managing the companies and for four years and the given a $40,000 penalty for breach of continuous disclosure laws and failing to discharge his duties as a director.
Former financial adviser Melinda Scott was convicted of managing a corporation whilst having been disqualified for...
By Kwame Slusher
Matthew Rixon was sentenced by the Paramatta Local Court for five months in prison for making false and misleading statements to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) between March and October of 2015.
ASIC Deputy Chair Sarah Court said in an official statement this the week, “Mr Rixon repeatedly and deliberately misled ...
By Kwame Slusher

This week Sarah Ewen from Public Speaking for Life facilitated a GRC Institute virtual workshop on eliminating filler words.
While the importance the practice was emphasised throughout the session there are other key factors Sarah highlighted as essential to the process:
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Mindset - ourselves, audience, and content
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Structure – ...
By Kwame Slusher
Wednesday 8 December 2021

This is a list of the top 5 GRC Professional Podcast episodes that you listened to the most in 2021!
By Kwame Slusher
This week the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released a report that found improvement in the cyber resilience regime in the local financial market.
In an official statement along with the release of the report that focused on the 2020 to 2021 period , ASIC Commissioner Cathie Armour said, “Firms operating in Australi...
By Kwame Slusher
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This publication was officially released on the first of the Annual GRC2021 Virtual Conference .
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You can download your PDF version of the Paper here
The Three Lines reimagined:
Critical success factors for an effective implementation of the Three Lines of Accountability
A DISCUSSION AND POSITION PAPE...
By Kwame Slusher