Banks issue instructions for corrupt regulators

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As we know, the corrupt RBA, Treasury and APRA are working behind the scenes to prevent any meaningful reform to Australia’s corrupt banking industry. Today they get clear instructions from their bosses on what needs to be protected, via The Australian:

In submissions to Mr Hayne’s interim report that were released by the commission, the banks defended vertical integration, where the same institution makes and distributes a financial product, even though most are scrambling to offload their wealth management arms.

The banks also defended the corporate and prudential regulators, whose reluctance to prosecute them for misconduct was savaged by Mr Hayne and supported the use of enforceable undertakings instead of legal action.

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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.