Don't pin banks for all 'serious crimes', bankers say

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated September 20 2017 - 9:55pm, first published 9:44pm
AFR.  3rd July 2017.  Generic.  Banking, Big 4 Banks.
Photograph by Arsineh Houspian.  +61 401320173 arsineh@arsineh.com
AFR. 3rd July 2017. Generic. Banking, Big 4 Banks. Photograph by Arsineh Houspian. +61 401320173 arsineh@arsineh.com
Senator Derryn Hinch at Parliament House Canberra on Thursday 22 June 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares
Senator Derryn Hinch at Parliament House Canberra on Thursday 22 June 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

Banks should not be liable for all kinds of "serious crimes" committed through money being laundered in their institutions, Australia's peak banking body says as it pushes the government to put limits on tough new legislation.

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