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Homegrown techs gain top billing

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2011
... market leaders in IT globally and benefits from the growth of the local financial services sector. "NSW is a hub of innovation, accounting for 51 per cent of Australia's Information and Communications Technology exports and about 60 per cent of Australia's ...

Fin centre plans hang in the balance: Bowen

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... salary costs of two staff. "One of the key aims underlying the work of the centre will be to foster financial sector innovation, while ensuring the risk inherent in the financial system is appropriately managed through best practice regulation," said ...

Govt to inject $25m into 'best practice' regulation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... training to financial regulators in Australia and in Asia. More importantly, the centre will also be a breeding ground for innovation in financial services, drawing academics from universities in Australia and overseas. Following on the lessons from ...

Fin services tech firms get nod from NSW govt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
... providers being promoted by the local government at an industry conference in Sydney. The two-day conference, Technology & Innovation - the Future of Banking & Financial Services, held at the Hilton Hotel will launch a NSW Government financial services ...

Singapore pushes for online economy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
There is a new threat to Australia's aspirations to become Asia's financial hub and it is "virtual", after Singapore announced this month that it plans to spend big on IT to build an "online economy". IT research firm Ovum has released a fresh report ...

To Scotland we will go

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009

The nub of being a hub

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
Local fund managers have the right skills and resources to make Australia the financial services hub in Asia and beyond but taking on that mantle doesn't necessarily mean the money has to be managed at home. Speaking at the IFSA conference yesterday ...

2020 Summit push for life long accounts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... Significantly, the LLAs were contained in the productivity theme centering on "education, skills, training, science and innovation". Another Summit initiative wealth managers should watch is the call for "A government-guaranteed program to create securities ...