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Outgoing APRA chairman Wayne Byres said there were still too many super funds, which created inefficiency for members.

Poor performing super funds must be kept in the spotlight

One of the most memorable lines of the banking royal commission is still relevant to assessing how our super system is performing today.

  • Clancy Yeates

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APRA chairman says lower house prices are ‘no bad thing’

Outgoing banking regulator Wayne Byres says the “Australian obsession” of housing had been a constant feature during his eight years in the role and that there are positives to falling prices.

  • Clancy Yeates
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APRA chair Wayne Byres to step down

The country’s top banking regulator has been at APRA since it started in 1998 and has spent eight years in the top job, leading it during a tumultuous period.

  • Clancy Yeates
APRA chair Wayne Byres said he wanted to give banks more clarity on the regulatory expectations relating to cryptocurrencies.

‘Proceed with care’: APRA urges bank caution on crypto

APRA chairman Wayne Byres says the regulator wants safety, but that doesn’t mean protecting incumbent banks from new business models.

APRA’s new capital rules will give banks an incentive to write more loans to owner-occupiers paying principal and interest.

APRA rules to target higher risk loans

Banks will be required to set aside more capital for higher risk interest-only and investor mortgage under long-planned changes to the capital framework.

  • Clancy Yeates
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‘You don’t have to hit everything with a hammer’: APRA boss weighs housing risks

APRA chairman Wayne Byres is having a bet each way on whether to intervene in the hot lending market.

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With house prices soaring this year,

APRA mulls tougher curbs to rein in housing boom

The banking regulator says it could impose limits on higher-risk loans if they raised risks for the financial system.

  • Clancy Yeates
Breville’s boss has cashed in millions of dollars worth of shares to buy an Aussie home.

Regulator calls time on housing market party, tightens standards

Banks are set to cut tens of thousands of dollars off the maximum amounts home buyers can borrow, after the regulator stepped in to tighten lending rules.

  • Clancy Yeates and Shane Wright
California wildfires. We are facing a climate emergency that demands collective action and central banks must undergo another transformation.

Climate risks ‘very real and immediate,’ says APRA’s Byres

The banking regulator highlighted a drop in the value of some emissions-intensive assets, such as coal-fired power plants.

  • Clancy Yeates
APRA chairman Wayne Byres said financial institutions were benefiting from substantial public support.

APRA softens stance on bank dividends as outlook brightens

The powerful banking regulator says it will revise the guidance that prompted banks to defer billions in dividend payments. 

  • Clancy Yeates

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