FINTECH
Funds management
Technology funds were cheap and offered strong long-term investment opportunities, according to BT Investment Management’s head of global equities. ...
Financial planning
Financial services technology start-ups were not the only ones facing barriers to innovation due to the financial services licensing regimes and thus should not be grante...
Policy & Regulation
OnDeck Australia has today announced that it has, in partnership with CBA, won the Fintech-Bank Collaboration of the Year Award....
Superannuation
Link has partnered with digital advice tool provider, Ignition Wealth, after it signalled that it would move into the holistic advice space....
Policy & Regulation
The ASX’s proposed IPO rules will mean nearly all retail investors and SMSFs will not have the opportunity to invest in most IPOs, according to a capital raising platform...
People & Products
Australian Unity’s Lifeplan has launched an investor portal for investors to track their investments, off the back of its adviser portal experience....
Editorial
Mike Taylor writes that ASIC’s proposal for a regulatory sandbox may prove to be a decisive element in the growth of Australian fintechs....
Funds management
Australian and Singaporean regulators have signed a co-operation agreement to support innovative business and fintech companies as they foray into the respective markets....
Financial planning
Fintech start-ups can rely on third parties for sign off to meet their competence obligation but it isn’t clear whether they are liable if the start-up fails, a lawyer sa...
Financial planning
AstuteWheel has today launched the Astute Estate Planner which overhauls the process for professionals by lessening time constraints....
Policy & Regulation
ASIC has formally canvassed the use of a “regulatory sandbox” approach which would allow fintech companies to test products for six months without an AFSL....
People & Products
Former Federal Labor MP, Bernie Ripoll, has joined the board of robo-advice focus group, Map My Plan as a director....
Superannuation
Super funds see robo-advice as a service they will provide free to members as a channel to comprehensive offerings that will attract a charge....
Funds management
Income specialist FIIG Securities is launching a mobile app, set to open the bond market to investors....
People & Products
A flexible, cost effective version of a leading personal financial management (PMF) tool will be available next quarter....
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...