Will the Banking Royal Commission deliver the jingle mail nightmare?

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As we know, the banks have something of “liar loan” problem. Now, thanks to the Banking Royal Commission, foreign investors are getting nervous about it, from Chanticleer:

The Hayne royal commission muscled its way into Asia’s biggest investment conference in Hong Kong this week as global equity investors questioned the big four bank chief executives about the impact the inquiry will have on compliance and regulatory costs.

During an intense few days of meetings on the 47th floor of the Conrad Hotel in Hong Kong, ANZ’s Shayne Elliott, CBA’s Ian Narev and Matt Comyn, NAB’s Andrew Thorburn and Westpac’s Brian Hartzer were reminded of Kenneth Hayne’s inquiry 7000 kilometres away in Melbourne.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.