Much has happened since Commissioner Kenneth Hayne handed down his final report on the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. This weighty tome of over 1,000 pages landed with a resounding thud on the Governor-General’s desk on 1 February 2019 and its repercussions have echoed ever since.
It’s certainly kept us very busy. Since the release of the final report, Governance Institute has produced:
- seven journal articles directly dealing with the banking royal commission
- a post-Hayne webcast
- an ongoing ‘Insights’ series analysing the banking royal commission’s recommendations
- a minutes document with a definitive legal opinion from two barristers
- a minutes webcast
We also asked three of our members who were directly affected by the royal commission some questions about how the royal commission touched them. Here are their answers: