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Kat Wong

Lack of technology poses 'existential risk' to ASIC

Corporate watchdog boss Joseph Longo says a lack of technology threatens his group's capabilities. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Those under the eye of Australia's corporate watchdog often hide potential evidence by flooding the regulator with irrelevant material, which its chair says poses an "existential risk".

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission does not have the technology it requires to keep pace with this explosion of digital information that needs to be interrogated, representatives told a Senate inquiry.

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