Louis de Koker

Jul 11, 2024 | openforum.com.au | Louis de Koker

The withdrawal of major banks from Pacific islands poses significant socio-economic risks to the region, prompting intervention by Australia, the US and New Zealand. The so-called debanking of the Pacific – when banks close or restrict accounts because they believe customers pose regulatory, legal, financial or reputational risks to their operations – was the focus of discussions at this week’s Pacific Banking Forum in Brisbane.

Jul 9, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Louis de Koker |La Trobe

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Jul 9, 2024 | theconversation.com | Louis de Koker

The withdrawal of major banks from Pacific islands poses significant socio-economic risks to the region, prompting intervention by Australia, the US and New Zealand. The so-called debanking of the Pacific – when banks close or restrict accounts because they believe customers pose regulatory, legal, financial or reputational risks to their operations – was the focus of discussions at this week’s Pacific Banking Forum in Brisbane.

Jul 4, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Louis de Koker |Yuhan Zhang |Seong-Hyon Lee |Sourabh Gupta

As access to international banks declines across the Pacific, Nauru’s domestic and cross-border banking services are hanging by a thread. There is a real possibility that Nauru will have no cross-border banking services as soon as mid-2025. Australia’s Bendigo Bank is the only provider of banking services in Nauru. In late November 2023, Bendigo Bank announced that it would close its agency in Nauru in December 2024.

May 1, 2024 | cgap.org | Louis de Koker

Louis de Koker is a CGAP consultant and professor of law at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia. He was the program lead in law and policy of the Australian government-funded Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre (2014-19), the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Economic Crime of the University of Johannesburg (2001-08) and the executive officer of the Centre for Business Law at the University of the Free State (1994-99).