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ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia) Readiness Advisory

Score your readiness for free, then turn the results into a plan in a 30-minute strategy call with Ivanka, co-founder of The Art of Service, which has trained 54,000+ professionals across 160+ countries.

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Why work with Ivanka on ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia)

ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 (July 2022), the financial requirements that Australian financial services licensees must meet under their licence conditions: solvency and positive net assets, the cash needs requirement met by one of five options with a projection the governing body approves, the annual audit report on compliance, surplus liquid funds where client money or property is held, adjusted…

Compliance work stalls when it is treated as a checklist. Ivanka treats ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia) as a strategic decision: what matters most for your organisation, what to do first, and what your leadership team needs to understand. For 25 years she has built The Art of Service, whose compliance platform now covers 1,062 frameworks.

The free readiness assessment scores your organisation against the 12 controls across 5 domains of ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia). The strategy call turns those scores into priorities.

Relevant credentials

  • Co-founder of The Art of Service, which has trained 54,000+ professionals across 160+ countries
  • MIT Entrepreneurial Masters Program graduate
  • EXIN Expert Panel member

What you get in 30 minutes

Gap Assessment Review

Ivanka reviews your ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia) readiness scores with you and agrees which gaps matter most. Specific to your results, not generic advice.

Implementation Roadmap

A clear, prioritised plan for addressing gaps across 5 domains: what you can build on from existing work and what needs new investment.

Cross-Framework Strategy

How ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia) fits with the other obligations you already manage, so it strengthens your existing programme instead of running beside it.

Domains covered in ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia)

01Appendices 1 to 9: tailored requirements for market participants, responsible entities, IDPS operators, custodians, margin lenders, foreign exchange dealers, retail OTC derivative issuers, crowd-sourced funding intermediaries and corporate directors of retail CCIVs
02Section B: the base level financial requirements (solvency and positive net assets, cash needs, audit)
03Sections C and D: the surplus liquid funds and adjusted surplus liquid funds requirements
04Section A: who the guide is for, what the financial requirements are, how to comply and how to apply for relief
05Section E: definitions for calculating the requirements (adjusted assets, liabilities, NTA, eligible undertakings, excluded assets)

This is for you if

  • You need to achieve ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia) compliance but don’t know where to start or how to prioritise
  • You’ve been told you’re “compliant” but suspect gaps exist that haven’t been properly assessed
  • You manage compliance for australian financial services licensees of every kind, responsible entities of registered managed investment schemes, investor directed portfolio service operators and platforms, custodians and depository service providers, retail over-the-counter derivative and foreign exchange issuers, margin lenders, crowd-sourced funding intermediaries, corporate directors of retail corporate collective investment vehicles, market and clearing participants organisations and need expert guidance, not generic templates
  • You want to leverage existing compliance efforts across multiple frameworks rather than starting from scratch
  • You need a strategic plan your leadership team and board will actually understand and support

Start with a free assessment. Then let's talk strategy.

Take the free ASIC Regulatory Guide 166 AFS Licensing: Financial Requirements (Australia) readiness diagnostic. In 5 minutes you'll have a clear picture of where your gaps are. Then book the strategy call and Ivanka will help you decide how to close them.

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