DAVID CHAPLIN: Fair’s not fair: why flawed law has finance fuming

DAVID CHAPLIN: Fair’s not fair: why flawed law has finance fuming
Cody Cooper is right. Of the 50-odd submissions on the proposed new financial institution conduct legislation only his (or hers) is inarguably correct. The rest of the submitters can be roughly divided into two camps: those explicitly caught by the Financial Markets (Conduct of Institutions) Amendment Bill who want it broadened to everybody else; and everybody else potentially captured by the draft law who want to be explicitly exempted. But the opposing groups both agree that the bill known as COFI, because we all like a goo...

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