FINTECH

People & Products

An online stockbroker, and multi-asset class trading and investment specialist, Saxo Capital Markets have broken new ground via a technology partnership....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft has pointed to financial services technology as being a disruptor of vertical integration....

Life/Risk

Behavioural economics sits at the heart of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new example statement of advice for life/risk advisers....

Financial planning

Data released by ServiceSeeking.com showed that 89 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises have never heard of fintech....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced a cooperative agreement with Indonesia’s Otoritas Jasa Keuangan to promote fintech development....

Financial planning

ASIC’s regulatory sandbox for testing fintech services will run for another year before the framework is reviewed....

Financial planning

Robo-advice providers in the US were introducing the human element into their automated models, indicating the advice industry was not ready for fully automated services...

Accounting

AccountantsIQ has introduced a white label statement of advice solution to assist accountants with advice documents in the wake of super reforms....

Life/Risk

Aon and Adviser Ratings have entered a partnership to launch a cyber-insurance policy for advisers to allow them to take out cyber liability insurance....

Financial planning

Wealth management firms continue to fall behind in facilitating the opening of accounts digitally but Australia was ahead of its global counterparts....

Financial planning

H2 Ventures this week announced the accelerator would invest in its fourth cohort of start-ups for the country’s sole accelerator program....

Financial planning

While Australian fintech investments hit a new high in 2016, the global investment rate dropped 47 per cent....

Financial planning

Super administrator Link Group has partnered with fintech hub Stone & Chalk to open a new area of opportunity for commercial exploration and collaboration for fintech st...

Policy & Regulation

Treasurer Scott Morrison was set to meet with counterparts in the UK and Germany to promote Australian fintech and developments in digitisation....

Funds management

Trustees Australia and fintech operator, Cashwerkz, have announced a merger under which established businesses would buy a new platform and distribution network. ...

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