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Digital disruption and data: An ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ update

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A speech by Greg Medcraft, Chairman, ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ at the FINSIA Regulator Panel (Sydney, Australia), 8 September 2017

Introduction

Last week, we released ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥â€™s Corporate Plan for 2017–18 to 2020–21. I encourage you all to read it.

The corporate plan outlines ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥â€™s vision, which is to allow markets to fund the economy, and, in turn, economic growth. In doing so, we contribute to the financial wellbeing of all Australians.

We do this by:

  • promoting investor and consumer trust and confidence
  • ensuring fair and efficient markets
  • providing efficient registration services.

The corporate plan also outlines our long-term challenges and the key risks that warrant attention in 2017–18.

You will see that digital disruption and cyber resilience in financial services and markets is one of our long-term challenges.

We have also identified digital disruption and inadequate risk management of technological change as some of the immediate risks we need to look at.

Today, I would like to talk about two issues related to these risks:

  1. the issue of accountability when businesses use technology and algorithms to provide products and services
  2. how regulators need to embrace data, technology and machine learning to improve regulatory outcomes – and how ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ is doing just that.