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ACCC/AER Regulatory Conference – Safety by design: how to protect consumers from family violence?’

Financial abuse prevention must be prioritised in Australia’s next action plan: Flequity submission

First Movers with Yas London

Chief Executive Women annual dinner 2026

5 Women Leaders Driving Innovative Solutions To Societal Challenges

Conversations in sustainability

Hollard ‘sets standard’ on family violence response

Flequity partners on inaugural Safety by Design conference

Power of Women podcast

All About Women at the Sydney Opera House strives for hope in a world of chaos

Financial Control In Relationships Isn’t Talked About Enough: “We Have To Unpick The Patriarchy”

Money Matters: All About Women

Check the fine print: New campaign urges Australians to hold providers to account against financial abuse

Webinar: Designing for safety

Banks and non-bank lenders form alliance to tackle financial abuse

Australia's finance sector joins forces to disrupt financial abuse

Flequity launches Financial Safety Alliance with Australian banks and lenders

Women's Agenda podcast: How everyday products and services are weaponised by perpetrators

2025 FAAA Congress Podcast - Amanda Cassar and Catherine Fitzpatrick

NSW Corporate Leadership Group meets with other advisory councils

Cuppa TV: Digital violence is abuse with a glow up

Champions of Change member briefing on safety by design

Webinar: Ending digital violence against women and girls

Panel: Women in Payments Australian Symposium 2025

One couple, two clients - financial abuse tips for financial advisers

Webinar: Strengthening banking responses to economic abuse

money money money podcast

ASIC Annual Forum: Designing for good

Financial abuse on the agenda at Singapore fintech Insights Forum

How to spot if a client might be suffering from financial abuse

How MoneyMe was found to have failed domestic violence victims

SXSW Sydney: How domestic abusers exploit your product features

Insurance Council of Australia 2025 conference explores financial abuse

Terms, Trust & Takedowns: UK Tech Safety Summit

Catherine Fitzpatrick speaks at the 5th World Conference of Women's Shelters

Flequity joins Equity 2030 Alliance

Webinar: Business leadership on economic harm

SA Royal Commission into Domestic, Family & Sexual Violence references Designed to Disrupt®

Financial abuse on the agenda in Canberra

Flequity CEO attends Women's Economic Reform Roundtable

Finding Nature podcast: From bystanders of financial abuse to action

Catherine Fitzpatrick is a social entrepreneur and international authority on financial safety by design. Her work as CEO and Founder of Flequity Ventures has had…

One Generation launches first business resource

Energy and water companies are failing family violence victims

Miss Designed to Disrupt® launch? Watch the webinar replay.

Australian Energy Regulator publishes open letter to energy sector in response to Designed to Disrupt® discussion paper

Domestic violence survivors living in fear of having addresses leaked by energy companies

Report helps support energy and water customers experiencing family violence

Report calls for national privacy inquiry and urgent safeguards in essential services to protect victim-survivors

Report: how utilities can protect customers from family violence

Abusers using utilities accounts to 'punish' victims

Future Women podcast: There's no place like home

When we speak about domestic abuse and family violence, there’s one question victim-survivors are asked again and again. “Why didn’t you just leave?” The simple…

‘Doing nothing is no longer an option’: Australians want companies to better protect them from financial abuse

Banks, insurers crack down on abusers using their products as weapons

Respect and protect index 2025 reveals growing consumer demand for financial abuse protections

Three in four Australians want financial abuse protections from companies they deal with, and nearly a quarter (23%) are prepared to switch companies based on…

Arca welcomes Parliamentary report on financial abuse and calls for greater industry collaboration

Banks, insurers told to work harder to prevent financial abuse

Landmark financial abuse inquiry backs financial safety by design

Social entrepreneur Catherine Fitzpatrick has welcomed today’s release of the financial abuse inquiry report Financial abuse: An insidious form of domestic violence. The report from…

One Generation: Australia's first business alliance against family and domestic violence

Corporate giants urged to stand tall against violence

Flequity co-founds Australian business alliance against domestic and family violence

Corporate leaders across Australia’s essential services are uniting to establish a business alliance against domestic and family violence – and they are urging others to…

‘Hidden epidemic’: Advisers’ role in addressing suspected financial abuse

Rapid review of prevention responses recommends audit of how perpetrators weaponise government systems

Business roundtable on DFSV report released

The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission has released its report on the inaugural business roundtable co-convened with Flequity Ventures in June. The Commission and…

Reimagining a home loan, supplementary submission to financial abuse inquiry

Flequity Ventures has made a supplementary submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations inquiry into the financial services regulatory framework in relation to financial…

Safety by Design: how utilities can lead the charge against domestic violence

Stopping online financial abuse

Five changes to make financial services safer for customers

A Parliamentary committee investigating financial abuse should make five recommendations to make financial services safer for customers, Flequity Ventures Founder and Director Catherine Fitzpatrick says….

Designed to Disrupt campaign wins 2024 Consumer Advocacy Award

Flequity Ventures is thrilled to be a joint winner of the 2024 National Consumer Advocacy Award announced by the Consumers’ Federation of Australia at the…

Terms and conditions could be key to curbing financial abuse as businesses urged to step up

Flequity co-convenes national business roundtable on gender-based violence prevention

The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner, Micaela Cronin, and social entrepreneur Catherine Fitzpatrick are co-convening a national business roundtable, bringing together over 60 senior…

Enhancing financial safety, Flequity's submission to financial abuse inquiry

The financial services regulatory framework should include a positive duty on the finance sector to prevent harm from financial abuse. This is one recommendation included…

Business bands together to help domestic violence survivors

‘Fatal consequences’: Social entrepreneur brings financial abuse battle to Perth

21 Australian businesses unite against financial abuse

In a world-first, 21 Australian businesses across telecommunications, banking, insurance, education and technology are mobilising against perpetrators of domestic and family violence today. They have…

Banks band together to crack down on financial abuse

Domestic violence survivor calls for change to insurance contracts

Two new Designed to Disrupt reports commissioned

Catherine Fitzpatrick has been commissioned to write two new Designed to DisruptTM reports as part of the Essential Services Commission‘s national safety by design partnership….

Powerful Stories Podcast

Catherine Fitzpatrick is the Founder and Director of Flequity Ventures, an independent consultancy that helps businesses improve outcomes for their customers experiencing vulnerability, delivering social…

Catherine Fitzpatrick wins 2024 Shared Value Award

Flequity Ventures Founder and Director Catherine Fitzpatrick has been awarded the Shared Value Bravery – Individual Award today. The award recognises her commitment to dismantling…

Sexually transmitted debt: How financial services are fighting financial abuse

Violence against women is increasing – what can insurers do?

Canadian banks need to do more to stop abusive e-transfers, survivors say

It was the responsibility of victim-survivors of financial abuse to pick up the pieces. Now, there is a call for businesses to take action.

How tech became the next frontier in domestic violence

Insurance is the latest weapon financial abusers use against their partners. Here’s how we fix it

13 Australian banks publish financial abuse terms and conditions

13 Australian banks have now published new terms and conditions that make it clear financial abuse is unacceptable customer behaviour which may result in account…

Domestic violence perpetrators ‘weaponising’ insurance policies in Australia to exert control, report finds

Reimagine insurance for financial safety: report

A new report released today by the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety calls for general insurers to disrupt domestic violence in Australia by redesigning products…

Conversaytions SayHERs podcast

For episode 54 of Sayers Conversaytions we are continuing our special edition IWD podcast series, SayHERs, to celebrate and spark conversation around this year’s upcoming…

Australian banks act to protect customers from financial abuse

A new report released today from the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety (CWES) shows 13 Australian banks have changed customer contracts to prohibit financial abuse….

Data breaches can be extraordinarily dangerous for victim-survivors

For domestic violence victim-survivors, a data or privacy breach can be extraordinarily dangerous

Social media debanking claim has no currency

Australia’s big four banks move against financial abuse

Using design to combat economic abuse

Combating the weaponisation of financial products: A pathway forward

Small Business, Big Impact podcast: Episode 7

The financial impact of violence against women and their children on Australian production and the business sector is $1.9 billion a year. Catherine Fitzpatrick, business…

Small Business, Big Impact podcast: Episode 1

In Australia, one in 4 women, and one in 14 men, has experienced domestic violence – so it’s likely you are working alongside someone who…

Banks put family violence perpetrators on notice. Stop using accounts to commit abuse or risk being ‘debanked’

NAB cracking down on financial abuse

Two Australian banks introduce financial abuse terms and conditions

Two of Australia’s biggest banks have committed to introduce new terms and conditions that will enable them to suspend or cancel customer accounts if they…

The money trap: Australian women drag banks to the fight against relentless financial abuse

Call for banks to stop financial products being ‘weaponised’ in DV

Reimagine banking products to enhance financial safety: report

A new report released today by the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety calls for banks to disrupt domestic violence in Australia by redesigning products to…

Business must evolve to help end gendered violence

Ending violence against women needs employers to act too

What the Finance podcast

Whilst talking about finances isn’t the most romantic topic, it’s essential to every relationship. In the final episode of What The Finance, Mel Browne and…

Financially Fit Podcast

ELLE editor-in-chief Genevra Leek speaks with two finance experts, Financy’s Bianca Hartge-Hazelman and Commonwealth Bank’s Catherine Fitzpatrick, to ask their advice on money personalities, joint…