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Fintech predictions for 2023: Finura

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023
Finura Group said it expects to see six key themes emerge this year for technology in the financial services industry. In its Wealth Tech Predictions 2023 report, the global technology consultant said wealth professionals are confronted with both headwinds ...

Bloom raises $500k in seed funding

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2023
Fintech Bloom Impact has raised $525,000 in seed round funding. The climate impact app's funding round was led by Euphemia, the family office of Up co-founder Dominic Pym, and with Envato founders Collis and Cyan Ta'eed. Bloom Impact offers ...

JPMorgan says fintech was a fraud, closes business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2023
JPMorgan has shuttered the financial planning fintech it acquired in 2021 and is suing its founder, claiming most of its users were fake accounts created to inflate the business' value. In September 2021, JPMorgan Chase acquired Frank, a platform that ...

AMG Super to take on fledgling super product

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2022
The superannuation offering of an ASX-listed fintech will merge with AMG Super later this month following a ruling by its trustee. Raiz Invest Super, the super solution offered by micro investing platform Raiz, will become a division of AMG Super on ...

ASIC sues crypto fintech over unlicensed advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2022
ASIC is taking a fintech to court for providing unlicensed financial advice on crypto-asset products. The regulator commenced civil penalty proceedings in Federal Court against Block Earner, an authorised representative of Flash Partners and AUSTRAC-registered ...

Northern Trust appoints APAC head of digital assets

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2022
... on Chia's appointment, Chapman said: "We are pleased to appoint Alvin to this new role, leveraging his deep skills in fintech to help us continue to drive change and support our clients' requirements." "We continue to see the pace of innovation continuing ...

The future of defined contribution asset allocation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2022
... technologies will render this collective investment scheme irrelevant, likening it to a Walkman about to be overtaken by the fintech equivalent of an iPhone. In Australia, while super funds have never used glide paths like the US target date fund, Mitchem ...

Padua hires head of sales

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2022
... appointed Steve Toth into the newly created position of head of sales, distribution and account management. Toth joins the fintech with experience across several industries, and has previously been head of sales for companies including Kayo Sports, Startel ...

Australia among top 10 financially inclusive markets: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022
Australia has been ranked the seventh most financially inclusive market out of 42 around the globe. Principal Financial Group's Global Financial Inclusion Index, conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, is built around three pillars ...

Lumiant partners with Envestnet | Yodlee

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022
Lumiant will be the first company to leverage Envestnet | Yodlee's Consumer Data Right (CDR) accreditation under the CDR representative model to power its Your Wealth module. The partnership enables Lumiant to access real-time data from financial ...