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AI to influence consumer trust: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... being at record lows, and how increased availability and use of personal data will further impact this. "The big issue is privacy - it has enormous potential to impact trust. There is real risk around how data is stored, used and shared with others against ...

Foreign trust disclosures overhauled in NZ

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... Papers' which exposed NZ's trust regime as a tax haven. He said NZ foreign trusts have been favoured due to the level of privacy and security. Woodward said when a foreign trust is formed in NZ it must now register with NZ government department Inland ...

Major banks receive Budget shakeup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... consumers with greater choice and also support greater competition in financial services. The review will consider appropriate privacy and consumer protections," Budget documents read. "The Government will introduce an open banking regime that will increase ...

Open data carries privacy risk: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... and cross-sell products must be underpinned by robust regulation that protects the consumers, otherwise they risk major privacy breaches, according to the Australian Bankers' Association. Educating customers how their data may be used and ensuring an ...

ESG risk tool launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... regulations; climate vulnerable regions; corruption and instability; poor workplace safety standards; frequent work stoppages and privacy regulations. In phase one of its rollout, it maps out a 'risk exposure' of more than 50,000 business and geographic ...

Adviser appeals ASIC ban

EMMA RAPAPORT, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... conduct to obtain life insurance for a client who was otherwise unlikely to obtain it; and committed a serious breach of privacy involving a number of client records. While Tindall is an authorised representative of Synchron, at the time of the incident ...

Westpac fortifies commitment to data protection

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017
... management and policy management solutions that are designed to reduce the risk of customer data breaches, identity theft and privacy. QuintessenceLabs founder and chief executive Vikram Sharma said the partnership with Westpac - which began in 2015 ...

NAB admits data bungle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... statement made on 16 December 2016, NAB executive general manager, international branches Peter Coad said: "We take the privacy and the protection of our customers' personal information extremely seriously. We also take full responsibility and we sincerely ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which argued ...

New platform allows super funds to share data with partners

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... encrypted state, and then produces de-identified insights that both companies can see, without compromising the security or privacy of the data. Super funds and their partners will effectively have joint visibility of customer demographics, via an easy-to-use ...