Nearly a year since the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) deployed its first investment from the Australian Business Securitisation Fund (AOFM), the government debt-management agency is seeking to reinvigorate its mandate to develop the SME financing market. COVID-19 forced a focus on emergency liquidity mechanisms and put the ABSF on hold, but the AOFM believes the experience may now allow it to fast-track its longer-term ABSF aims.