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A Sydney debt collector which admitted harassing and threatening customers has complained a $3.25 million penalty sought by ASIC would destroy its business.

A farmer who looks set to lose his farm vows to keep fighting for accountability in the financial sector and its lending practices.

Cigno is exactly the sort of business the Australian Securities and Investments Commission had in mind when it asked for stronger powers to ban the sale of harmful financial products.

ASIC is investigating whether a third lending model set up by "predatory" payday lender Cigno is legal, while the company takes its fight to be exempt from credit laws to the High Court.

The emergency relief package for families struggling to pay for burials includes a payout for expenses equal to the one they were promised by the disgraced insurer

The company founded by Ron Pattenden collapsed owing millions in unpaid policies to thousands of low-income Aboriginal families

New data shows that when funeral insurance company Youpla went into liquidation in March, some of Australia's most disadvantaged towns paid the heaviest price.

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In 2013, the government was warned that allowing funeral insurers to access Centrelink payments could end badly for customers. Almost a decade later, it did.

As the Albanese government works on getting legislation ready for its highly anticipated corruption watchdog, calls are growing for it to boost protections for whistleblowers and drop criminal prosecutions against Richard Boyle, David McBride and Bernard Collaery, and to advocate for Julian Assange.

Youpla director Greg Wheeldon says he did his all to save the funeral insurance company from liquidation. But advocates for the thousands of people who lost their cover still want answers.