Banking bad / Adele Ferguson.
Publication details: Sydney NSW : HarperCollinsPublishers Australia, 2019.Description: 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780733340116
- Australia. Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry
- Commonwealth Bank (Australia)
- Bankers -- Corrupt practices -- Australia
- Banking law -- Australia
- Financial services industry -- Corrupt practices -- Australia
- Investment advisors -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Australia
- Consumer protection -- Australia
- Corruption investigation -- Australia
- Consumer complaints -- Australia
- Consumer satisfaction -- Australia
- Consumers -- Australia -- Attitudes
- Finance, Personal
- Corporate governance -- Australia
- Financial planners -- Corrupt practices -- Australia
- Banks and banking -- Corrupt practices -- Australia
- Banks and banking -- Australia
- Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- Australia
- Women journalists -- Australia -- Biography
- Financial services industry -- Australia -- History
- White collar crime investigation -- Australia
- Australia -- Politics and government -- History
- 332.1068 23
- Winner 2020 Sisters In Crime Australia Davitt Award for Non-Fiction Book.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 332.106 FER | Available | 069666 |
"Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth." -- Front cover.
Bibliography: page 385.
In Banking Bad, Adele Ferguson traces the origins of the banking scandal to the early 1990s, when buckets of money began pouring into compulsory superannuation funds, set up by Labor Treasurer Paul Keating. Attracted by the increasing cash, banks devised corrupt and questionable practices to get their hands on funds, along with aggressive selling practices that ignored due diligence, trust and honesty. Drawing on her multiple sources who led her to break the story of malpractice, the individuals, business owners, farmers and ordinary people who lost everything. Adele also looks at the falls from grace at the hands of the royal commission of some of the country's most highly ranked captains of industry, the failure of regulators and recommendations of the commissioner, Kenneth Hayne. And she asks where to from here?
Winner 2020 Sisters In Crime Australia Davitt Award for Non-Fiction Book.
