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Equip appoints digital specialist to board

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
Equip has appointed an executive with experience leading digital media and marketing ventures as its new member director. Pippa Leary started in the role on 17 July 2015. She is also chief executive officer of digital advertising company Apex Premium ...

ASIC to foster fintech growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... committee will also include a representative with a strong consumer background. Medcraft said global investment in fintech ventures tripled to US$12.2 billion in 2014, from US$4 billion in 2013. "In the future, we will likely see further developments ...

Australian fintech network established

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
H2 Ventures chief executive Ben Heap believes the financial services industry has largely avoided disruption and that New South Wales could be a leader in an industry "acutely suited to tech innovation." Heap's comments came as part of the official ...

Suncorp Life boss to step down

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... thank Geoff for his valuable contributions to the company over the past seven years and wish him every success in his new ventures," Snowball said.

Advisers and mortgage brokers joining forces

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
Increasing numbers of adviser practices are seeking partnerships and joint ventures with mortgage brokers rather than referral arrangements. Centrepoint Lending Solutions general manager Kevin Frost noticed this trend after advisers started looking ...

BNP appoints OneVue as unit registry provider

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... expressed its ambition of becoming "the Australian unit registry utility" in the vein of North American State Street joint ventures Boston Financial Data Services and International Financial Data Services. Explaining this goal, Mckeage said: "BFDS and ...

OneVue announces management, strategy changes

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... update the goal of becoming "the Australian unit registry utility", comparing itself to North American State Street joint ventures Boston Financial Data Services and International Financial Data Services. "BFDS and IFDS are basically a hub where virtually ...

Connect Brokers sets up Asian initiative

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... Pacific Region. The new business, Connect ASEAN, is based in Melbourne and will look to help local businesses set up joint ventures, undertake mergers and acquisitions and commercial and investment operations with their counterparts in Asia. The business ...

Australia's coming $32bn SIB sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... SIBs, also sometimes called Social Benefit Bonds, work when a sponsoring group, usually an established charity of social ventures organisation, develops a social capital program that aims to reduce government welfare expenditure if successful. That sponsoring ...

Centuria reports 6.6% growth in net assets

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... the property funds management and operations and this may take the form of short-term bridging of transactions or joint ventures or long-term strategic holdings in the Centuria REIT or the Asian club. "We also have a major resourcing and marketing push ...