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The first bank to embrace radical honesty would do well out of the royal commission and leave its rivals in the dust. But it would be hard.
Statistics Canada has been tone-deaf in its push for the financial data of Canadians from banks, but that data is essential to forming good public policy.
The best way to get bankers to behave well might be to bind them to a code of ethics, like doctors. We've tried ever tighter rules.
Banks have viewed their codes of conduct as non-binding statements of comfort. They need to enforce them under pain of legal penalty.
Denmark's biggest financial institution has admitted that around €200 billion of questionable money flowed through its Estonian branch from 2007-15.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
The Morrison and Berejiklian governments might be of the same stripe but, with both facing elections in the first half of 2019, their interests rub up against each other uncomfortably.
Clare O'Neil on Labor’s listening tour for banking victims.
Shadow minister for financial services Clare O'Neil says the ALP exercise will give a voice to people in areas the Royal Commission hasn't had time to visit.
The banks get most of the blame in Commissioner Hayne's explosive report, but there's some for us as well.
Rather than introducing still more laws to regulate banks there is a case for stripping down the ones we have got to make their aims crystal clear, Commissioner Hayne says in his interim report.
It's when times are good that the seeds of the next financial crisis are sown.
Challenger banks are on the rise but they need to prove themselves to be trustworthy to survive – and profit.
Restructuring might help manage conflicts of interest between offering advice and selling products, but it doesn't fix the culture that sacrifices customers' interests to the pursuit of profits.
The president recently nominated a new permanent director to take over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. With the CFPB doing a fraction of the work it did under Obama, what kind of agency will she lead?
Evidence in front of the banking royal commission today is very similar to the case that sparked consumer protection laws more than 30 years ago.
While codes of conduct in banking may help, the tsunami of financial regulation over the past few decades has swept aside much of the sense of personal accountability.
The financial institutions fronting the Financial Services Royal Commission are also the ones controlling mortgages, so will an expose of their dealings push property prices down?
As the banking royal commission continues to expose wrongdoings, the pressure is intensifying on the corporate regulator.
This bald-faced refusal to acknowledge their own inconvenient history in part comes from the politicians' belief that if you just burnish the "spin", you can get away with saying anything.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Pat McConnell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Research Director of Australian Centre for FInancial Studies and Professor of Finance at Melbourne and Monash Universities, Australian Centre for Financial Studies
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Victoria University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, University of Essex
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Professor of Accounting, Banking and Finance, University of Canberra
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Cass Business School, City, University of London
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Lecturer, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, St. John's University
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Adjunct professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
