Summary

The September 2026 Stakeholder liaison forum allowed regulated entities, their representatives and other stakeholders to engage directly with the Regulator. It was an opportunity for them to ask the Payment Times Reporting Scheme leadership team questions.

The forum maintained a thematic approach, focusing on topics from the August update.

About the liaison forum

The liaison forum is held twice a year, after the release of the Regulator’s update publication.

The Payment Times Reporting Regulator released the August 2026 Regulator's Update.

This update provides:

The Regulator is maintaining its existing compliance and enforcement priorities for 2026-27 and will continue to apply an escalating approach to compliance and enforcement.

In line with the priorities, the Regulator will continue to focus on:

The Payment Times Reporting Regulator has released the inaugural Regulator’s compliance update. 

The April 2026 edition shares insights into compliance action taken by the Regulator between 31 July 2025 and 31 March 2026.

Summary

The March 2026 Stakeholder liaison forum (the forum) enabled regulated entities, their representatives, and other stakeholders to engage directly with the Regulator and ask questions of the Payment Times Reporting Scheme leadership team.

The forum maintained a thematic approach, focusing on topics from the January update.

About the liaison forum

The liaison forum is held twice a year, following the release of the Regulator's update publication.

On Thursday 29 January 2026, the Regulator hosted the first of 4 online demonstrations of the new portal. More than 400 people attended and asked questions about the new features and how to use the portal.

We collected these questions and grouped them by topic. You can read them, along with our answers, in the downloadable Q&A from the online demonstration of the new portal resource.

We will keep this document updated with new questions from the remaining webinars.

The Payment Times Reporting Regulator has released the first of 2 updates for 2026. The January edition shares insights from Reporting Cycle 9 (1 January to 30 June 2025) and sets out our priorities for the year.

This edition includes:

The Fast Small Business Payer List is a Payment Times Reporting Scheme reputational incentive established under the Payment Times Reporting Act 2020.

The list is published on the public Payment Times Reports Register. It recognises large businesses that lead by example in consistently paying small business suppliers in 20 days or less.

Summary

The Payment Times Reporting Act 2020 has been in operation for over 4 years.

The August 2025 Stakeholder liaison forum (the forum) enabled regulated entities, their representatives, and other stakeholders to engage directly with the Regulator and ask questions of the Payment Times Reporting Scheme leadership team.

The 2025–26 Compliance and enforcement priorities outlines:

• the Regulator’s priorities
• our escalating approach to compliance and enforcement
• the specific behavioural harms to be targeted over the next 12 months
• the Regulator’s commitment to best practice regulation.