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Trust has to be as important as profit if banks and their boards are to regain their corporate legitimacy

  • Written by Rosemary Sainty, Academic, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
Trust has to be as important as profit if banks and their boards are to regain their corporate legitimacySpeaking in confidence, the members of bank boards are worried.Shutterstock

Central to the banking royal commission (and central to recent revelations about the ABC) has been the role of boards.

Although they’ve said little publicly about how they see their roles, in a confidential research setting they have conceded their role should be about...

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