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The ACCC has inquired into mortgage rates before. This time will want detail.
Evidence for the prime minister's contention that the banks are "profiteering" is thin on the ground.
Research suggests there are hidden costs to abandoning personalized banking relationships in favour of online banking.
While there has been talk of a "religious vote" or an "ethnic vote" holding sway at this election, particularly in Sydney's western suburbs, new research does not bear that out.
Combined, APRA and the Reserve Bank are about to give households on $150,000 up to $120,000 more borrowing power.
American companies still face enormous uncertainty about how they'll be doing business in the UK and EU in the coming years, particularly as the April 12 Brexit deadline draws closer.
More than a third (35.4%) of respondents surveyed by the Australian Leadership Index believe banking and financial institutions show "no leadership for the greater good".
A mismatch between Australian and New Zealand regulations means Australian taxpayers could be on the hook if a New Zealand bank fails.
The World Bank’s original governance arrangements have changed much more slowly than the scale and nature of its operations.
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.
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Pat McConnell is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of Finance, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Accounting, Banking and Finance, University of Canberra
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