A trio of supervisory heavyweights headlined the first day of the Australian Securitisation Forum (ASF)'s annual conference on November 21 – but the content of the day's discussions was as much about the future makeup of bank funding and the Australian sector's global investor base as the details of regulation. Overall, regulators believe there should be a role for securitisation in future, but only as part of a multi-faceted funding mix that now also includes covered bonds.