Correspondence between Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Treasury

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This FOI release comprises emails and calendar entries between Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Treasury, mainly from October 2025 to February 2026. Correspondence is between Dan Doran, CBA's General Manager, Government and Industry Affairs, and Treasury Deputy Secretary James Kelly and First Assistant Secretary Lynn Kelly. The exchanges arrange meetings and introductions and refer to topics including scams, surcharging and interchange, and payments technology. A briefing from Mandala economists on the banking sector is also referenced, with a research focus on technology and competition in banking. The excerpts contain no dollar figures, forecasts, costings or recorded policy positions, and no internal disagreement is apparent in the portions provided.