The authors of this report argue that Australian banks need to move quickly to understand their exposure to deforestation and other activities that result in harmful nature impacts, implement lending policies that require the avoidance of harm to nature, and incentivise their customers to adopt practices that will restore the health of the ecosystems all...

Recognising the important role of banks in scam prevention, detection and response, ASIC conducted a review of the four major banks' activities in these areas. The review focused on the major banks with the expectation that they should have the most mature and effective policies, processes and practices in relation to scams.

This report reveals that Australians lost a record $3.1 billion to scams in 2022, as government, law enforcement and the private sector look to improve collaborative efforts to support the community in the fight against scams.

The Australian government and European Union are looking to improve the complementarity and coordination of their infrastructure financing efforts, especially in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region. This paper makes several suggestions for how this group of like-minded partners can lift their infrastructure financing contribution.

There is a vast international literature exploring the consequences of low interest rates for various banking sectors. In this paper, the author explores how this international literature relates to the Australian banking sector, which operates differently to other jurisdictions.