ANU expertise to help advance the Australian finance sector

ANU will join forces with other leading national and international universities and financial institutions as part of a new $24 million research centre charged with putting Australia at the forefront of the global financial sector. The Centre for International Finance and Regulation will be based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Announced by the Federal and NSW governments today, the new centre will draw upon the expertise of a consortium of universities from Sydney as well as national partners ANU and the University of Melbourne. The centre's activities will be enhanced by industry collaborators Capital Markets CRC and Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia Pacific as well as international partners, including New York University and the University of California Los Angeles. Professor Jenny Corbett, Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the ANU Crawford School of Economics and Government, will lead ANU activities for the centre. Professor Seumas Miller of consortium member the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) will also be involved. He and colleagues at CAPPE will look at the ethical dimension of global financial investment.