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Banks have had much of the focus in the aftermath of the Hayne Royal Commission with some justification. The misconduct that was uncovered by the royal commissioner, Kenneth Hayne, and his legal team was egregious and bore all of the…

Journalism was a natural career choice for me because I have always liked piecing together puzzles, solving problems, knowing what makes people tick and also revealing things designed to hold powerful people to account. I’ve written about corporate accounting controversies,…

Australians could be forgiven for thinking that the behemoths in our financial services sector are untouchable. It seemed for a long time that calls for a royal commission, for example, kept falling on deaf ears and that complaints against banks…

Rowena Orr QC has been Grilling Westpac executive Michael Wright over the bank’s remuneration policies as they relate to performance payments to financial advisers. Wright’s evidence delivered in response to Orr’s questioning sought to explain the principles of the remuneration…

Commonwealth Bank executive Marianne Perkovic is again in the cross hairs of counsel assisting Michael Hodge QC at the Royal Commission this morning. Perkovic has this morning attempted to take a question on notice while counsel assisting has been pressing…

One of the things I found remarkable when working in not for profit bodies is the way in which you could get warring parties together and get to a productive outcome on an issue that people previous thought was impossible.…

New Year’s resolutions are easy to make as a part of the bluster of celebrations marking the end of one 12 month period and start of another. Some are kept. Others are broken. Some people are serious while others could…