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Fortnum inks advice fintech deal

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
Fortnum Financial Advisers is partnering with a provider of real-time data, budgeting and reporting software to augment its client engagement strategy. Under the new partnership, Fortnum will distribute MoneySoft's cashflow and budgeting tool through ...

Goodments outshines at WAMTech PitchFest

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... outstanding submissions which, while making the judges' decision challenging, just goes to show the incredibly high calibre of fintech ability in Australia." The winning pitch addressed the challenge of how the wealth asset management industry could ...

Wealth and investment leads Aussie fintech

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
Wealth and investment is one of Australia's largest fintech sub-sectors according to an industry representative group. Releasing its first member ecosystem map, FinTech Australia showed wealth and investment sits alongside consumer and business lending ...

Finance braces for Amazon effect

EMMA RAPAPORT AND DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... won't be immune to the online store's influence. Already sending shockwaves through local major retailers, Australian fintech Avoka believes financial services will be the next industry to experience the 'Amazon effect'. "When Australian consumers start ...

Super funds fight for financial inclusion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... compassionate grounds. Among the 30 other organisations to sign up to the FIAP program are Australian Ethical Investment, fintech Money Brilliant, and banks and insurers ANZ, CBA, NAB, Westpac, Australian Unity, and Bank Australia.

Fintechs must collaborate, not disrupt: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... insurtech has been slow to launch in Australia, but is poised to disrupt the local and global insurance industry. The fintech sector is predicted to grow exponentially to more than $4.2 billion by 2020. Meanwhile, Capgemini appointed Olaf Pietschner ...

Fintech success insignificant so far: Fahy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
So far fintech has largely been operating in the 'toy domain', with the industry yet to be disrupted in any meaningful way. Drawing a comparison to the biotech sector, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Martin Fahy said ...

ASIC boosts support for regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... initiative in supporting regtechs is a way of accelerating the journey for them, he added. Quinn said the difference between fintech and regtech is that "fintechs are disrupting the banking community, whereas regtechs are helping companies meet compliance ...

FSC and EY seek WAMtech revolution

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... Financial Services Council, in conjunction with professional services firm EY, is calling on the nation's most innovative fintech developers to help revolutionise the Australian wealth and asset management industry by taking part in the inaugural EY ...

Ignition Wealth secures BT Panorama deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
... customers to access a hybrid of digital and traditional financial advice. The deal has been hallmarked as "the largest fintech deal in Australia to date." It also marks the first of the big four banks to appoint an independent technology provider to ...