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AML/CTF continues to dominate global headlines, and in Australia, the landscape is undergoing significant change with the introduction of Tranche 2 reforms. These reforms expand AML/CTF obligations beyond...
It has been an action-packed six months for MLex’s Australia-based journalists. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s five-year, rolling probe into the operation of digital platforms has hit the halfway mark, while the agency’s criminal-cartel enforcement campaign has regained momentum, after earlier setbacks. Then there were the massive data leaks that affected Singtel Optus and Medibank Private, which renewed pressure on the Australian government to prioritise work on the ageing 1988 Privacy Bill. MLex Senior Reporter Laurel Henning and Senior Editor James Panichi fired up their microphones to walk listeners through all of the drama of 2022.
James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the...
Laurel is a senior correspondent specializing in competition law, data privacy and security, in Australia and New Zealand. Laurel reports from Sydney on criminal-cartel legislation and white-collar crime, as well as competition and consumer lawsuits involving companies including Google, Meta Platforms and Apple. While at MLex Laurel has also reported boardroom disputes and shareholder campaigns agitating for changes to company strategy. Laurel joined MLex in 2013 and reported for five years on European energy and..