Unquestionably dodgy: Aussie banks slammed in global report

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Via Banking Day:

If Australia’s major banks have retained any vestiges of complacency, that will be rubbed out by the comments from the Lafferty Banking 500, which rated 500 banks from 73 countries for their overall quality.

The report card from Lafferty’s team of analysts ranked three of the four majors as substandard versus their global peers. Commonwealth Bank was assessed as the best of them, and came in at barely average.

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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.