Banks and banking law
The bankruptcy of Lehman Bros – a mere coincidence
Ten years ago, on 15 September 2008, Professor Rosalind Mason of QUT Brisbane and I gave a paper at the …
Lawless, oxymoronic insolvency law – the mining regulators aren’t happy.
This comment updates our recent commentary on the complicated intersection between insolvency law and environmental regulation. There are now at …
What’s up, or on, in insolvency, early in 2018?
The following commentary on submissions due, events and conferences, professional standards, international and local, hearings and case law*, all in …
No, not the Royal Commission – long delayed banking reforms
Long delayed banking and financial institution reforms are being addressed in a Bill to enhance APRA’s ‘crisis management’ powers in …
Farmers’ debts – ‘sit down at a table and work it out, and walk away, alive’
Preventing the appointment of receivers to ‘family farms’ and using farm debt mediation instead seems to be an idea that …
The new Code of Banking Practice – what and when?
In evidence before the Senate Select Committee on Lending to Primary Production Customers on 11 August 2017, the Chief Executive of …
ABA’s Anna Bligh and bank lending reforms
Anna Bligh, the Chief Executive of the Australian Bankers Association, has recently spoken of the “strong and mutually beneficial relationship between …
