Royal Commission: Westpac – the one that didn’t get away

It seems the Australian banking scandal has caught up with Westpac.

At the conclusion of the Royal Commission into the behaviour of Australia’s banks earlier this year, there was a sense that one of the big four banks had got away relatively unscathed: Westpac.

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Brian Hartzer, CEO, Westpac

None of its executives was ousted, it didn’t sell its wealth business as others had set about doing, it didn’t seem to have behaved as badly as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and its leaders didn’t seem to misjudge the mood as badly as did National Australia Bank’s (NAB).

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