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Insure while you wait: Aviva

... Aviva Australia gives consumers the option to get their life insurance needs arranged on the spot. Well, not quite like internet banking but close enough. The local subsidiary of the sixth largest insurer in the world said it has launched a new insurance ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... up about 60 per cent. The strategy of James Packer to direct PBL into gambling and the new media sectors such as the internet paid off with the company recording greater earnings in the gaming division than in the Nine Network and ACP magazines combined. ...

Super communication to evolve with choice

... surprisingly, not on top of the list. A panel of communications experts who attended the forum also stressed the power of the internet to reach members across the different generational and lifestyle categories. For example, setting up online communities ...

Daily economic update

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
... series just published showed that the recent strong growth in demand for labour is slowing as the number of newspaper and internet jobs ads rose by 1.8 per cent in July following the 3.2 per cent increase in June. The underlying trend growth continued ...

CFDs account for 35 per cent of UK trades: GreensCFD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... to Goran Drapac, managing director of GreenCFD, the boom in CFDs in Australia is being driven by dramatic advances in internet technology and because Australia has the right regulatory background. But it is also very important to understand how CFDs ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... cent, closing at 1,268.40. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped 3.44 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 2,070.46, with shares of Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc sinking to a three-year low, a day after the company cut its earnings outlook, darkening prospects ...

Gen Xers jump online for home loans: Forrester

Internet savvy Gen Xers aren't just using the web to download music, chat to friends and trade on Ebay. A new survey has found a growing number of them use it for more serious reasons such as applying for home loans too. Research group Forrester has ...

One-third of US investors do not read their prospectus: ICI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
... the tech-savvy credentials of the investor market was confirmed with the survey finding nearly 90 per cent expect the internet to be their primary research source in the future.

Banks under growing IT security threat: Deloitte

... Priest. Jean-Marie Abignahem, director at Deloitte's enterprise risk services arm and part of the team that designed the internet banking services for two of the country's major banks, said, "The whole industry is changing and will continue to do so ...

Online banking rules: Commonwealth

... survey, an annual index of electronic banking usage in the country, has found that 85 per cent of Australians voted the internet as their preferred banking channel. Amid much debate in recent years about the closure and re-opening of bank branches, the ...