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Willis Towers Watson hires institutional risk expert

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... Ashworth, APAC managing director of financial solutions at WTW. Ashworth outlined Jeffers experience dealing with Australian lenders as key to the move. "Jamie has significant experience working with Australian lenders, and understands how the insurance ...

Incumbents can innovate or separate: AltFi Summit

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... features is an ability to toggle between different loan co-signers so that students can see what they'll receive from various lenders. "That was something which was a serious undertaking because it took quite a lot of engineering and you needed to integrate ...

Look inside to drive fintech forward: AltFi Summit

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
An online mortgage broker believes fintechs partnering with robo-advisers, digital banks and online lenders is important for industry innovation but even more critical are relationships with established players. Speaking ahead of the AltFi Australasia ...

ANZ Wealth tests AI-driven underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Zurich will own 100% of One Path Life Australia Holdings (OPL), but ANZ will retain its New Zealand business along with its lenders mortgage insurance, general insurance distribution and financial planning arms. The sale followed ANZ divesting OnePath's ...

Fintechs gear up for open banking

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... and categorisation solutions. Proviso was founded in 2013 by Luke and Dallin Howes and counts major banks and non-bank lenders among its clients. The timing was right for Proviso to tap into a wider network of customers, while also gaining access to ...

US investment giant buys La Trobe Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
Melbourne-based La Trobe Financial, one of the largest non-bank lenders in the country, struck a landmark deal with New York-based private equity giant Blackstone. In a deal announced this morning, Blackstone has taken an 80% stake in the privately-owned ...

ANZ sells life insurance business for $2.85 billion

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... Zurich will own 100% of One Path Life Australia Holdings (OPL), but ANZ will retain its New Zealand business along with its lenders mortgage insurance, general insurance distribution and financial planning arms. ANZ noted that as at 30 September 2017 ...

Banks feeling heat as MiFID II looms: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... well-capitalised. The big US banks are going to everything they can to kill those banks and push them back into being regional lenders." Merrin cautioned that one shouldn't shed a tear for any regional players who lose out post-MiFID II, though, arguing ...

OECD tells RBA to take a hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
... point hike could trigger an outsized fall in the housing market (probably on expectations for more). This would affect lenders and ancillary sectors servicing the industry - bricklayers, painters, household furnishings, conveyancers, etc. - sending profits ...

No big deal or not yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... In particular, last week, banking regulators prepared a new set of rules to oversee the relationship between commercial lenders and their shareholders. Authorities have also introduced other measures, such as restrictions in loans to the shadow banking ...