The idea of separating out the retail arms of the Big Four banks, featured in the Greens election policy, has merit and has been done before.
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Business Briefing: what happens to your credit history
As credit reporting agencies find new ways to make money out of people accessing their credit histories, agency wrongdoing is calling into question the whole business model.
New report shows millions in the UK are denied essential financial services because of disability, disease and age.
One of the worst hit countries during the financial crisis has regained economic strength inside a gilded cage – to the extent that it can now step outside, melt it down and re-sell the gold.
Business Briefing: the bank bill swap rate
As more details are revealed in the bank bill swap rate rigging case we explain what the rate does, how it can be manipulated and what the government should be doing about it.
How did a small South African bank manage to rise through the ranks at a time when consumer and investor confidence was at a low?
If the banks can’t trust each other’s messages, can you trust the banks?
It may be the effect of the election but the regulation of banking in Australia appears to be descending into farce. Just last week, maybe in anticipation of adverse events to come, the Australian Financial…
The government should resist the temptation to soften monitoring efforts aimed at MPs and their families and associates.
Whistleblowers need better incentives, compensation and protection under Australian law, especially those in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
The UK government is considering taking a stake in a dying asset when it could have helped build a balanced economy much earlier.
Out of the many changes the federal government has made to ASIC, the review of the Financial Ombudsman will have the biggest impact on customers.
The global economy is already unsustainable – let alone if it gets bigger.
After Labor proposed a royal commission into the banking industry, Treasurer Scott Morrison said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has all the powers of a royal commission and more. Is that right?
The politics that Malcolm Turnbull and the big banks support is one in which people are robbed of their citizenship and reduced to economic functionaries.
There are limitations to the narrative that more regulation can help tackle toxic bank culture.
Royal Commissions work best when one specific issue can be addressed, rather than a wide range of problems.
The Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence put the pressure on banks to respond to economic abuse. Now the banks are taking the first steps.
Analysis of the similarities between Australia’s four largest banks shows all are exposed to risk of a housing bubble burst and face threats from digital disruption.
Unethical behaviour by bankers represents a systematic risk to banks, and causes widespread harm.
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Victoria University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Victoria University
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Accounting and Capital, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Accounting, Banking and Finance, University of Canberra
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
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Associate Professor in Marketing, Keele University
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Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Economics and Finance, Bangor University
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Visiting Academic, The Open University