Treasury

In his final appearance in Parliament as ASIC chair, Joe Longo warned the regulator was running on empty. The message has fallen on deaf ears.

The fintech industry says cuts to the CDR team within Treasury were “definitely noticed” but a series of people moves at the government department could bode well for reforms.

The global crypto platform backs a licensing regime for exchanges and digital wallets but has warned against any moves to directly regulate underlying digital assets like stablecoins.

The appointment of Jenny Wilkinson as Australian's first female Treasury secretary is clearly a historic moment. What it says about the government's economic plans is less certain.

Independent experts want the rules tightened to prevent public servants from becoming collateral damage in debates over policy costings.

The former Treasury secretary has weighed in after Labor's use of Treasury to cost a version of the Coalition’s small business pitch rekindled debate about politicising the public service.

The financial complaints authority and financial counsellors are seeing growing financial distress from BNPL and support tighter regulation.

Already under pressure from proposed regulation, the BNPL sector must now factor in a review of credit reporting requirements by another federal body.

Depending on who you talk to, open banking in Australia is on the point of acceleration or the pause in its rollout is a welcome chance to improve data quality.

Changes in the attitudes of lenders — and borrowers — were already driving down insolvencies before the pandemic hit.

Ric Deverell spent the first half of his career as a public servant, and this has left him alert to the grey areas of economic policy challenges.

When was the last time you paid for something with coins? If it’s a stretch to remember, you’re not alone.

And this time around the prominent fund manager wants to form an unlikely alliance to fight changes to the dividend imputation system — with the federal Greens.