Pussy Labor prepares to roll on broker reform

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Via the AFR:

The chief executives of the four big banks will be made to face Parliament twice a year to report on progress in implementing the banking royal commission reforms, as part of a boosted accountability regime Labor will introduce if it wins the election.

As well, the banks, the regulators ASIC and APRA and the Australian Banking Association, will have until August 1, about two months after the federal election, to submit their plans to a Royal Commission Implementation Taskforce that Labor will establish in the Treasury.

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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.