Inquiry into banking and deregulation

Report

On 27 November 1991, the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration tabled its report on the inquiry into banking and deregulation entitled A pocket full of change.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 23 chapters, 1 dissent and 12 appendices.

A pocket full of change

Part A: Preliminary pages up to Chapter 7 (PDF 7957KB)
Foreword, Contents, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations, Conclusions and Recommendations

Ch1: Conduct of the inquiry

Ch2: Historical background
Ch3: The Australian banking industry in 1991
Ch4: Overseas banking issues
Ch5: Competition policy

Ch6: Profitability of banks
Ch7: User pays

Part B: Chapter 8 to Chapter 16 (PDF 7917KB)
Ch8: Competitive structure
Ch9: Barriers to competition
Ch10: Foreign banks
Ch11: Diversification of banks' activities
Ch12: Current prudential supervision of financial institutions
Ch13: Improving the current approach to supervision
Ch14: Alternative arrangements for supervision
Ch15: Banking and business
Ch16: Banking and the rural sector

Part C: Chapter 17 to Chapter 22 (PDF 7526KB)
Ch17: Foreign currency loans
Ch18: Fraud
Ch19: Banking, competition and the consumer
Ch20: Banker-customer legal relationship and fair banking
Ch21: Disclosure of information
Ch22: Banks and society

Part D: Chapter 23 to Appendix 12 (end) (PDF 4580KB)
Ch23: Overview
Dissenting report by Mr Steele Hall, MP
Appendix 1: List of submissions
Appendix 2: List of exhibits
Appendix 3: Program of activities undertaken by the committee
Appendix 4: List of witnesses
Appendix 5: List of organisations visited in UK and Europe, June 1991
Appendix 6: List of organisations visited in USA and Canada, August-September 1991
Appendix 7: Overseas banking structures
Appendix 8: Risk-based measurement of capital adequacy of banks
Appendix 9: Questionnaire to major banks on foreign currency loans
Appendix 10: Advice dated 30 October 1991 from Attorney-General's Department on foreign currency loan cases
Appendix 11: Membership of Australian Banking Ombudsman scheme
Appendix 12: Comparison rate

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