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Aussie fintech partners with Alibaba

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... Corporation (ASX:CL8). FundX is a recently launched startup backed by BlueChilli. It is a peer-to-peer invoice discounting and SME lending platform that offers the funding of business cash flow gaps by advancing payments based on outstanding invoices. ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
Aren't you glad I didn't lift? This must be what's in Janet's head as she scours the global economic and financial market landscape and saw that it wasn't good. Yes folks, financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping ...

IFAs to benefit from ASIC SME focus

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer has highlighted the regulator's expanding role in the SME registration space. Speaking at the National Council of Small Business Australia Conference in Sydney, Tanzer noted that small businesses, with fewer than 20 employees ...

Findex acquires private wealth firm

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
Findex Group has acquired Melbourne-based accounting and financial advice firm Martin Goodrich & Associates (MGA). MGA will be relocated to the Crowe Horwath's Melbourne offices but will retain its branding "during a transition phase," according to ...

Suncorp Life boss to step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
Suncorp Life's chief executive will step down from his role on September 30 after seven years at the helm of the group's insurance business. Suncorp Life chief executive, Geoff Summerhayes, will remain with the group in an advisory position until January ...

Buffett insurer partners with IAG

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... retain its initial holding for the duration of the quota share agreement. Further, IAG will take over Berkshire's personal and SME businesses, while Berkshire will hold renewal rights to IAG's large-corporate property and liability insurance business. ...

AIA launches business life insurance benefit

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... over two million small businesses operating across the country it makes sense for us to look at ways to better service the SME market," she said. "The Business Safeguard FUB option allows business owners to purchase additional cover that ensures their ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has given his backing to small business tax cuts made in the budget but has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support ...

Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
The financial services sector has ranked number one for optimism in the latest survey of SMEs conducted by Bibby Financial Services. Conducted in March, the Bibby Barometer survey quizzed 620 smaller companies (defined as having fewer than 200 employees) ...

Connect Brokers sets up Asian initiative

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
Connect Financial Service Brokers has set up a specialist consultancy firm dedicated to connecting small and medium advice business owners with partnership opportunities in the Asia Pacific Region. The new business, Connect ASEAN, is based in Melbourne ...