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Advice fintech shutters Sydney office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
As part of a strategic review, an ASX-listed Australian fintech targeting the financial advice market will close its Sydney office and reduce three sales and customer service staff. Intiger said the decision came about because the review "reaffirmed ...

Tech is all upside for insurance: HSBC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... better claims experiences in the Chinese market. These claims seem to echo statements of recent years about the uptake of fintech in China. In 2015, KPMG partnered with H2 ventures to release the Fintech 100 report, ranking leaders alongside 50 emerging ...

Morrison sharpens blockchain, AI agenda

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
Australia's open banking, blockchain and emerging fintech sector received a funding boost in last night's Budget, a move the Treasurer said will increase competition and create new jobs. Treasurer Scott Morrison said the funding boost will build on ...

Macquarie partners with wealth fintech

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Macquarie has integrated its open banking platform with a cloud-based personal wealth service established by a former Xero Australia managing director. As a result of the integration with myprosperity, users of the personal wealth platform will now ...

Saxo Bank moves banking platform to cloud

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... to evolve and support the high regulatory standards that define the financial industry," Fournai said. The 25-year old fintech was among the first to launch online investment platforms in 1998. It has since used many Microsoft products to deliver its ...

Heffron partnership to offer robo-SMSFs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... independent of the size of the portfolio and do not include any commissions," Garrett said. He also said that generally fintech solutions would offer the transparency investors were looking for. "We believe we'll see more and more investors turning to ...

Wealth management products make big leaps in digital sales readiness

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... 60% of all wealth management products offered by the country's biggest banks from their mobile phones, according to a fintech which helps financial services companies acquire clients. Avoka measured digital sales readiness for the 50 largest banks across ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
Saxo Capital Markets Australia has launched its new active trading platform that will let users trade over 35,000 financial instruments at no monthly fees and without expensive legacy hardware. The product is aimed at professional traders and smaller ...

Incumbents can innovate or separate: AltFi Summit

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... similar to what they demand from companies like Amazon and Kayak," Dash said. "To me it's the consumer rather than the fintech that's changing the way things work." Credible is a student and personal loan comparison website which became the largest technology ...

Super Plus switches to SMSF fintech

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... Mclowd, which provides its core software for free. The administrator has entered into a five-year agreement with Mclowd - a fintech with about $1 billion in super assets under administration on its SMSF platform. The shift to Mclowd will help the Super ...