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The lucky country for fintechs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... fintech offerings. On regulatory attitudes, the report highlights the proactive approach of ASIC in establishing an innovation hub to run alongside its regulatory sandbox and the Digital Finance Advisory Committee. "First, establishing a sandbox sends ...

Insurtech associations form global alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
A group of associations representing insurance technology have co-founded a new Global InsurTech Alliance (GITA). Insurtech Australia, along with Insurtech London, Insurtech Asia and FinTechNZ are co-founders, along with future partners in Europe and ...

First State Super appoints head of digital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
The former entrepreneur-in-residence at Westpac's innovation hub is the new head of digital at an $81 billion superannuation fund. Joining from Westpac's The Garage, Ahmad Racheha will lead First State Super's digital strategy. He will report directly ...

Macquarie and Canadian pension fund buy SA government asset

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... accordance with usual Government practice. The contract also includes a commitment by Land Services SA to establish an Innovation Hub in Adelaide, provide $35 million in ICT investment in South Australia and to work with local digital start-ups. The ...

Stone and Chalk partners for new Melbourne hub

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... community." Stone & Chalk Melbourne will be housed alongside SproutX, Australian's national agricultural technology innovation hub, and offer 60 desks for fintech startups. The hub will also run a series of programs and partnerships to develop the local ...

Mercer vet takes reins at former Pillar offices

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... Pillar Administration. Jo-Anne Bloch takes on the role having previously been partner and team leader at Mercer's Innovation Hub in the US. Before that, she was Mercer's financial advice leader in Sydney. Before Mercer, Bloch was chief executive of the ...

Mercer appoints acting CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... of Jo-Anne Bloch and Nick White. Bloch has spent the last three years as a partner and team leader of the Global Innovation Hub in Mercer's New York business, while White has been serving as director of portfolio construction research in the United Kingdom. ...

ASIC collaborates with Kenya on innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... break down barriers to entry both here and in Kenya," Medcraft said. According to Medcraft, since launching the Innovation Hub in 2015 ASIC has seen a boost in the number of requests from fintech startups pertaining to how best to navigate regulatory ...

NAB pursues innovation via global banking alliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
NAB has partnered with two global financial institutions to form an international banking innovation alliance. Teaming up with Israel's Bank Leumi and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the alliance will facilitate the sharing of information ...

Asset manager launches quant platform after acquisition

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... GAM Systematic will complement GAM's active discretionary investment offering and will also serve as the group's innovation hub for the development of new technologies, investment ideas and approaches for systematic strategies and products. GAM will ...