FINTECH

Policy & Regulation

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft says the regulator supports robo-advice but also acknowledges problems such as meeting best interests duty and compensating for bad advice....

Financial planning

AdviserLogic, has published its application programming interface to enable greater software integration with third-party applications....

Superannuation

Fintech provider, Enzumo, is seeking shareholder support for its $9.5 million deal to acquire superannuation research house, Chant West....

Funds management

Netwealth has announced it is piloting a new integrated automation service to help advisers better engage with clients....

Financial planning

Wealth Today managing director, Greg Pennells, has called for robo-advice to be outlawed, calling it a ridiculous innovation that takes a one-size-fits-all approach to fi...

Superannuation

First State Super’s chief investment officer, Richard Brandweiner, has announced the firm will build a venture capital platform to seed early-stage and emerging fintech s...

Financial planning

Digital platforms lacked sophistication to provide future projections of investment mixes and enable consumers to understand investment models....

Financial planning

Wealth manager Yellow Brick Road has launched a robo-advice modelling tool, which it claims will disrupt financial services by giving consumers more control over “their f...

Funds management

Shifting customer preferences and a changing regulatory landscape could significantly reduce market share for financial services incumbents, according to Deloitte....

Financial planning

Non-aligned planning group signs Midwinter in effort to expand advice offering....

Financial planning

In a bid to transform the way advisers manage their wealth portfolios BT Financial Group has unveiled the latest iteration of its Panorama mobile app....

Accounting

Accountants urged to get technologically savvy to beat fee compression and expand, including into the wealth management space....

People & Products

Financial market and mortgage system supplier IRESS has acquired Proquote and Pulse Software Systems to its portfolio in a bid to expand its UK operations....

Funds management

Peer-to-peer investment startup SelfWealth will roll out a new brokerage solution aiming to 'revolutionise' online broking....

Funds management

Fintech disruptors will fundamentally shape the payday lending industry as a result of their intelligent use of big data and “reference-checking” analytics, according to ...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 1 day ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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