Introducing Australian Banking Daily
A note from our publisher
Good morning,
Now that the first phase of the tumultuous banking royal commission is behind us, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for being one of our early subscribers and let you know what we have planned for the year ahead.
Parliament may be over for the year, but the industry and its lobbyists are sharpening their messages on the potential damages from further industry regulation. Many of the journalists covering the royal commission have been reassigned to other things, and we’re heading into another parliamentary killing season where the only certainty is more policy uncertainty.
We’ll continue to cover the fallout from the royal commission right up to the Feb 1 reporting date, after which we’ll be launching a more comprehensive service. Our banker panic measure 😨😨😨 and the burn prize 🔥🔥🔥 are a bit of harmless fun, but when the government does finalise the policy response to the commission, we’ll be there to cover it and what it means for the sector. We’ll also be covering financial services policy more broadly - there’s plenty going on outside of the royal commission.
We’re hiring reporters in Canberra, and Melbourne, to follow and report on policy at both a state and federal level. We won’t be publishing opinion. There’s plenty of that already. What we will do is offer context, and tools we hope will save you time in understanding new or emerging policy, and the people that shape it.
If this sounds helpful to you, please spread the word online, and tell your colleagues to register for these emails.
We will soon start publish some original stories on issues that matter to the sector. If there’s a policy issue you think isn’t getting the scrutiny it needs, please let me know.
— Charis Palmer, Publisher