Banking Royal Commission
Business & Economics
Charging dead clients is dishonest. Really? Who knew
The regulator’s court action against five AMP group companies over the previous scandal that saw dead clients charged fees is a wider warning to corporations
Business & Economics
Rio Tinto and the anatomy of corporate culpability
Heads have finally rolled over the mining company’s shameful destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelter, but what are the legal implications and how does corporate culture matter?
Business & Economics
Holding corporations to account
The slippery concept of corporate guilt too often allows companies off the hook. The law needs reforming
Business & Economics
Is our trust in banking restored?
Following the findings of the banking Royal Commission into misconduct, what’s actually being done and will it help our financial wellbeing?
Business & Economics
Care for our financial health
Many Australians stress over their finances, but just like a health problem, the answer is better education, financial health checks, and counselling for those that need it
Business & Economics
Focusing financial law on what really matters
The complex and unclear laws governing financial services need to be overhauled, with financial wellbeing put at the core, say researchers in the new FinFuture white paper
Business & Economics
Improving the finance sector for all Australians
Trust in our financial services has been shaken by scandals, but in a new white paper, FinFuture, researchers show how the system can be reformed to put financial wellbeing front and centre.
Business & Economics
Weighing up the policy responses to banking misconduct
The major parties all have election policies that respond to the misconduct uncovered in Australia’s financial services sector, but they are light on detail
Politics & Society
The buck stops here: Holding banks responsible for dishonest conduct
With 76 recommendations, Commissioner Ken Hayne’s final report into the Australian financial services industry provides a roadmap to hold the sector to account, especially for the ‘fees for no service’ scandal
Business & Economics
Is it time to rethink our banks being too big to fail?
There is an important but poorly understood relationship between New Zealand’s banks and the Australian taxpayer that highlights the need for more stringent regulation around the Big 4’s ‘too big to fail’ guarantee