Future-fit boards need to rethink how they interact with government and regulatory bodies, says board adviser and strategist Taleen...

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As published in the Australian Financial Review, Monday 17 October 2016 The parliamentary inquiry into the four major banks threw up several ways to make Australia's financial service and payments infrastructure more competitive. The most widely reported were account number portability and mandating open access to data. The Economics Committee's chair, Liberal member David Coleman, favoured these proposals to allow customers to have more power over their banks and switch lend