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Submissions – Financial Sector Submission to the Financial System Inquiry

Published as Occasional Paper No. 14
6 September 1996

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Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Background: Financial System Trends
  • Objectives and Types of Financial Regulation
  • Present Regulatory Responsibilities
  • Assessment of Prudential Supervision
  • Organisation of Prudential Supervision
  • Some Other Prudential Supervision Issues
  • Funding Bank Supervision
  • Payments System Issues
  • Competition and Consumer Regulation

Appendix

  • Appendix A: Trends in the Australian Financial System
  • Appendix B: Overseas Supervisory Arrangements
  • Appendix C: Should Bank Supervision be carried out by the Central Bank or by a Separate Authority?
  • Appendix D: International Framework of Bank Supervision
  • Appendix E: Oversight of Financial Conglomerates – International Developments
  • Appendix F: References
  • Appendix G: List of Abbreviations
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
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