More evidence has emerged that the APRA bail-in law passed in February does not exclude ordinary deposits from being converted into worthless shares or written off to prop up failing banks, a.k.a. bailed in, as some politicians assumed.
On the same day last week that the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chairman Wayne Byres claimed that the banks had passed stress tests conducted by the bank regulator in 2017, the Citizens Electoral Council’s Australian Alert
Behind their public admissions that it was a mistake to oppose the Financial Services Royal Commission, the banks and their political stooges are already strategising how to ride out the storm.
For the last fortnight the Citizens Electoral Council has displayed a banner outside of the Banking Royal Commission hearings in Melbourne that reads: “Investigate the banks’ accomplice APRA!” APRA’s latest action proves why it is absolutely neces
The terms of reference that Malcolm Turnbull gave to the Banking Royal Commission only allow it to examine specific failings of regulators in relation to banking misconduct.
