• Bank on the Pacific

    Paresh Kumar Narayan     |      August 29, 2024

    Bendigo Bank, Westpac and ANZ are the latest Australian banks to begin their exit from the Pacific Islands, opening the door to Chinese competitors.

  • The Pacific Banking Forum

    Jonathan Ping     |      August 7, 2024

    The first Pacific Banking Forum in July 2024 sought to enhance banking relationships in the Pacific but efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese banking influence in the region are complicated by the exploitative economic ties between Pacific Island Countries and China.

  • Fixing the Pacific’s debanking crisis

    Louis de Koker     |      July 11, 2024

    The withdrawal of major banks from Pacific islands poses significant socio-economic risks to the region, prompting intervention by Australia, the US and New Zealand.

  • Banks must speak the same digital language

    Daniel Gozman     |      September 4, 2023

    The complex, opaque and often outdated systems used by large international banks threaten the stability of the global banking system.

  • SVBankrupt

    Mark Humphery-Jenner     |      March 15, 2023

    The collapse of California’s Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest banking failure in US history and the largest failure since the Global Financial Crisis.

  • Bank erosion

    John Coyne     |      November 8, 2022

    The growing exodus of international banks from the Pacific is leaving many Islanders without access to the safe, reliable financial services they need.

  • Morrison drops the ball on banking reform

    Kevin Davis     |      January 21, 2021

    Almost two years on from the Banking Royal Commission, the government has yet to implement 44 of its recommendations and has firmly turned its back on five key reforms – including curbing irresponsible lending practices.

  • World Bank in the dock over corruption

    David Uren     |      February 26, 2020

    The World Bank is being accused of suppressing a study which showed that a great deal of aid to the poorest countries is stolen by corrupt officials and salted away in foreign bank accounts.

  • Royal Commission’s final report

    Theo Chambers     |      March 5, 2019

    Brokers play a crucial role in keeping competition alive in the home loan market. Shore Financial CEO, Theo Chambers, reflects on the potential impact on the brokerage industry if the final recommendation of the Hayne Report gets implemented.

  • A fresh approach to the transformation of the financial services sector

    Jeffrey Tobias     |      February 15, 2019

    The report on Australia’s troubled financial institutions only scratches the surface of the problems they face. True business transformation requires a cultural shift to serve customers with respect, empathy and passion, but it’s the only way for companies to survive in an ever more competitve world.

  • Swift action required on banking criminality

    Liz Campbell     |      February 9, 2019

    Trust is hard to define, but it’s certainly difficult to build and its easily lost. With people’s trust in Australia’s banks at an all time low, strong action against wrong doers is required alongside tighter controls in the future.

  • Australia’s banks given a decade to change their ways

    Diane Nazaroff     |      February 8, 2019

    Banks given a decade of work to change their culture and governance and while some of the big hits failed to materialise, the banking royal commission’s final report still lays out serious challenges for the industry, according to experts from the UNSW Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation.