September 2023
Medcraft calls on APRA to link mortgage serviceability buffer to cycle
The former ASIC chairman said a mortgage repayment buffer of 3 per cent did not make sense given how interest rates can swing.
- Campbell Kwan and James Eyers
April 2023
- Opinion
- Banking products
The banking oligopoly feels ‘safe’, but it’s bad for customers
To sustainably strengthen competition from non-majors and non-banks, it’s time to supplement the private RMBS market with a publicly supported RMBS scheme.
- Greg Medcraft
February 2023
How low can Joe Longo go?
If only ASIC was less concerned with its public image and more concerned with enforcing the law.
- Joe Aston
April 2022
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia’s crypto chances require the right rules
Blockchains and crypto technology could make finance and banking more competitive. But that depends on Australia’s regulatory system adopting more workable rules.
- The AFR View
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Summit peels back crypto onion
Australia could lead the world in the coding revolution that underpins the crypto economy, The Australian Financial Review’s crypto summit heard.
- Tony Boyd
Urgent call to join the crypto start-up race
Former ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft and venture capitalist Mark Carnegie say Australians must encourage digital asset technology and investment.
- James Eyers and Aleks Vickovich
September 2021
- Updated
- Executive shake-up
Greg Medcraft to battle banks at AFG
The former chairman of Australia’s corporate regulator has joined the board of one of the country’s top mortgage brokers.
- Michael Roddan
July 2021
Greg Medcraft’s warning from the blockchain revolution
The former ASIC chairman is returning to Australia in August after more than three years in Paris and says regulators need to prepare for disruption by blockchain.
- James Eyers
October 2020
ScoMo's belated interest in 'other people's money'
Ever since joining the corporate plod in February 2018, 'other people's money' has been a recurring theme from the former Goldman Sachs banker James Shipton.
- Michael Roddan
July 2020
Cormann's old frenemy awaits at OECD
How do you reckon the last high-profile Australian we sent to the OECD feels about the Finance Minister's much-mooted career pivot?
- Myriam Robin
June 2020
Trust Project head left Monash over expense rort
In June 2018, Justin O'Brien resigned from his position as a professor of financial regulation after an investigation into his corporate credit card expenses.
- Myriam Robin
August 2019
Medcraft backs Hayne: Trust in business, politics broken
Former ASIC head Greg Medcraft said trust in business and "by extension the foundations of our economy is at stake".
- Patrick Durkin and Tom McIlroy
June 2019
ASIC closes books on Alex Malley's golden parachute
Now it's absolutely certain: they got away with it.
- Myriam Robin
