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Siri and Alexa: The future of banking?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
Using artificial intelligence to do all your personal and business banking from the comfort of your own home may be closer than you realise, NAB predicts. NAB executive general manager, digital and innovation Jonathan Davey said the proliferation of ...

International automotive alliance launches new VC fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... in year one - is targeted at fostering development in mobility, autonomous vehicles, connectivity and artificial intelligence. Ownership of the fund is divided across Renault (40%), Nissan (40%) and Mitsubishi Motors (20%). The fund's first investment ...

AustralianSuper embraces goals-based advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... said. The new approach will be rolled out across all of the super fund's advice channels, including via artificial intelligence in the form of a new chatbot. With most people now unable to differentiate between a chatbot and a live consultant, Blackmore ...

Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... that was put in place three, four, five years ago," Heine said. Respondents didn't consider blockchain, artificial intelligence or Know Your Customer (KYC) technologies to be gamechangers, despite the world's biggest companies already using them to great ...

Social media boosting super fund engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... the short-term, funds continue to explore digital tools, including technologies such as chat-bots and artificial intelligence, but there is a realisation that technology for its own sake is not the goal." Given the limited resources, only those technologies ...

The age of algorithmic advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... social and real-time financial context and feed it into the technology. Pefin, touted as the world's first artificial intelligence adviser, estimates human beings over a lifespan have between five to eight million data points based on every decision ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... currencies, big data and analytics, and social and B2B networks. Fintech Hyper Anna for example, is an artificial intelligence system that answers simple business queries via data analysis. Another is Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants ...

Advisers divided on mixing advice: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... officer Hamish Douglass told advisers recently there is nothing to fear about robo-advice in the age of artificial intelligence. "I'd argue that if you think of your business as a model where you are really there as a counsellor and consultant to something ...

NAB to simplify operations via job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... the 2000 new roles will involve different capabilities to support the strategy such as data scientists, artificial intelligence, robotics and automation. "This will result in a net reduction in staff currently targeted at approximately 4000 by the end ...

Fintech regulatory sandbox draft legislation released

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... than 160 financial institutions in 36 countries, including four of Australia's largest banks, showed that artificial intelligence, blockchain and the Internet of Things are redefining the nature of financial services. Every Australian respondent already ...