Daniel Ziffer
Daniel Ziffer focuses on how finance and business decisions translate into real-world consequences for customers, taxpayers and workers, turning complex corporate stories into clear, accessible reporting. He covers business and finance for ABC News across television, radio, online and podcasts, with a brief that spans banking misconduct, corporate governance, markets and economic policy. His work sits at the intersection of journalism and public debate, drawing on more than two decades of experience in daily news, long-form investigations and explanatory coverage of the financial system.
Banking misconduct and the financial system
A central strand of Ziffer’s reporting is misconduct in banking and the way the financial system treats its customers.
He has covered the Hayne royal commission in depth for ABC radio, television and online, and has written a book-length account of its proceedings and the problems it exposed in banking, superannuation and financial services. That experience informs continuing coverage of how banks and regulators respond to systemic failures, including stories that scrutinise whether promised reforms translate into better outcomes for ordinary people. His work often follows the money through institutions, examining the incentives that drive poor behaviour and the regulatory frameworks designed to prevent it.
Beyond the royal commission, Ziffer reports on the ways criminals and sophisticated players exploit gaps in the financial system, including money laundering through real estate and other assets. He treats these as stories about the integrity of markets and the protection of customers and taxpayers, not just technical compliance issues.
His finance coverage typically combines case studies, expert commentary and clear explanation of jargon, keeping focus on how the system’s rules and failures affect people’s savings, debts and ability to participate in the economy.
Corporate scandals, consulting firms and tax leaks
Ziffer frequently reports on corporate accountability, with a particular interest in large professional services firms and the consequences when their work intersects with public policy. He has covered scandals involving consulting firms such as PwC, including the leaking of confidential Australian tax policy information to multinational clients, unpacking how internal emails, governance failures and conflicts of interest translate into billions in forgone revenue and public anger.
In similar fashion, his coverage of KPMG’s mistakes has focused on the financial and reputational costs of misconduct, and on how regulators and clients respond when trusted advisers breach that trust.
These stories are framed around questions of trust, responsibility and the role of experts in shaping economic rules. Ziffer tends to follow a scandal beyond the initial revelation, tracking Senate inquiries, regulatory action and internal firm responses to show whether the fallout leads to structural change. He uses interviews with specialists, regulators and affected stakeholders to connect boardroom decisions and internal emails with the lived impact on taxpayers and the broader economy.
Markets, interest rates and live business coverage
Another pillar of Ziffer’s work is live and near-live coverage of financial markets, interest rates and major business news.
He regularly files “as it happened” blogs on days when the ASX is moving sharply, interest rate expectations are shifting, or global events are driving volatility, bringing together intraday market moves, analyst commentary and central bank signals. In these formats he tracks equities, bonds, currencies and commodities as they respond to new information, while highlighting what those moves mean for mortgages, savings and business investment.
His markets reporting often draws in broader themes such as fears of a bond market meltdown, the impact of geopolitical tension on oil prices, and the connection between global risk sentiment and local employment or inflation. Through regular appearances on ABC business programs and bulletins, he interprets complex market narratives for a general audience, keeping attention on how shifting rates and prices flow through to household budgets and company balance sheets.
Explaining economics, technology and the cost of doing business
Ziffer’s coverage extends into economic trends and the changing cost structures facing businesses, particularly where technology and policy intersect. He has reported on rising AI costs for Australian businesses even as the underlying token prices fall, exploring how pricing models, infrastructure demands and vendor lock-in shape whether new technology genuinely delivers efficiency or becomes another expense line. His work on Australia’s “stuck” economics looks at stagnant productivity, wage dynamics and barriers to mobility, again framed around how macroeconomic trends manifest in everyday financial stress and opportunity.
Across broadcast and podcast formats he returns to the theme of explaining finance and business in human terms, a focus reflected in his own description of the role as explaining the impact of finance and business on people’s lives. Ziffer brings long experience across radio, television, print and foreign correspondence to this explanatory work, using narrative detail and plain language to connect policy debates, corporate strategies and market movements with the choices facing workers, consumers and investors.
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