The update announces ASIC's estimated regulatory cost recovery levies across 52 subsectors, which constitutes mandatory regulatory reporting of fee structures and cost allocation to industry participants.
Mandatory inheritance: Regulatory Reporting is a child of Supervision, so Supervision must be raised as the secondary tag.
Obligation
The CRIS publication provides estimated regulatory cost allocations and levy guidance to regulated entities for budgeting purposes, which resembles a disclosure of prescribed information to industry participants, though the content is administrative and cost-allocation rather than material-fact or conduct-focused.
The update also involves ASIC's internal cost-recovery reporting and allocation methodology, which has a secondary element of regulatory reporting or governance communication, though this is less central than the disclosure of levy estimates to industry.
Activity
This update is an administrative announcement about regulatory cost recovery and industry funding levies with no direct connection to any specific financial services business activity.
The content concerns budgeting and cost allocation across regulated subsectors rather than any operational financial services activity.
Themes
This update is primarily an administrative announcement of regulatory cost recovery levies with no substantive regulatory theme content addressing consumer protection, conduct, prudential requirements, or other core regulatory obligations.
While the funding model supports ASIC's regulatory activities broadly, there is no specific secondary regulatory theme that meaningfully applies to this cost-recovery administrative announcement.
Functions
Finance and Treasury functions must plan and budget for the estimated regulatory levies and fees, which directly impact the firm's financial control and cost management for the 2025-26 financial year.
Compliance functions have a secondary role in horizon-scanning and interpreting the regulatory cost recovery model to advise the business on levy obligations, though this is primarily an administrative/budgeting matter requiring human review given the confidence below 0.75.
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TITLE: Australian Securities and Investments Commission Releases Estimated Industry Funding Levies for 2025-26
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On June 20, 2025, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued its 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS), which outlines how ASIC will recover regulatory costs from industry under the industry funding model. For the 2025-26 financial year, ASIC's total estimated recoverable costs are $400.5 million, representing a 19 percent increase from the $337.6 million recovered in 2024-25.
The increase reflects additional funding for ASIC's regulatory, supervision and enforcement work, along with the timing of expenditure. The CRIS provides estimated regulatory costs and levies for each of ASIC's 52 regulated subsectors to help entities plan and budget for levies and fees to be charged. The statement's figures are a guide only, with final levies to be published in December 2026 and invoiced between January and March 2027. ASIC has also simplified its CRIS webpages to make key information easier to locate and interpret.
Under Australia's industry funding model, entities regulated by ASIC receive an annual invoice for ASIC's regulatory services. The levies entities pay reflect ASIC's costs of regulating the subsectors they operate in. This model ensures that costs of regulatory activities are borne by the entities ASIC regulates, rather than Australian taxpayers. ASIC details how its costs will be recovered from each regulated subsector through industry funding levies and via fees for service each year.
Entities should use the estimated levies to plan and budget accordingly. ASIC and Treasury maintain a five-yearly consultation process with industry to examine policy settings within the industry funding model, following recommendations from the 2023 Review of ASIC's Industry Funding Model.
REFERENCES:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (2025). ASIC releases estimated industry funding levies for 2025-26. Available at: https://asic.gov.au/
ASIC releases estimated industry funding levies for 2025-26 | ASIC Newsroom Print Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email ASIC today issued its 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS) , which outlines how ASIC will recover regulatory costs from industry under the industry funding model. For the 2025–26 financial year, ASIC’s total estimated recoverable costs are $400.5 million — a 19% increase from the $337.6 million recovered in 2024–25. The increase reflects additional funding for ASIC’s regulatory, supervision and enforcement work, along with the timing of expenditure. The CRIS provides estimated regulatory costs and levies for each of ASIC’s 52 regulated subsectors to help entities plan and budget for levies and fees to be charged. The statement’s figures are a guide only. Final levies will be published in December 2026 and invoiced between January and March 2027. ASIC has also simplified its CRIS webpages to make key information easier to locate and interpret. Background Entities regulated by ASIC receive an invoice each year for ASIC’s regulatory services under laws introduced by the Australian Government following recommendations from the Financial System Inquiry. The levies entities pay reflect ASIC’s costs of regulating the subsectors they operate in. Each year ASIC details how its costs will be recovered from each regulated subsector through industry funding levies and via fees for service. ASIC’s industry funding model ensures that costs of regulatory activities are borne by the entities ASIC regulates, rather than Australian taxpayers. More information See the 2025-26 Cost Recovery Implementation Statement Find out how the government’s industry funding model for ASIC works To address recommendations outlined in the 2023 Review of ASIC’s Industry Funding Model , ASIC and Treasury have a five-yearly consultation process with industry to examine policy settings within the industry funding model. ASIC is Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator.