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Northern Trust grows APAC team with Sydney hire

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... Australia, Northern Trust is working closely with the market in relation to innovative operating models incorporating technologies such as blockchain," Chapman said. Henderson joins Northern Trust from Kairos Enterprises where she was an independent ...

ANZ hires Silicon Valley consultant for innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... and ventures, Ron Spector will be responsible for developing potential new business opportunities and disruptive technologies. He will also play a key role in investing in emerging growth companies to build upon ANZ's existing suite of products and services. ...

Wealth, insurance arms hit banks' earnings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... on the banks' productivity and efficiency agendas. "We see few institutions that aren't actively considering these technologies as a way of reducing manual labour on the high transaction, low complexity tasks across key parts of their organisation. So ...

FinPal integrates broking capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... features such as the client portal and document generation system. In future, FinPal plans to integrate complementary technologies similar to its recent partnership with Moneysoft. "Supporting a vibrant ecosystem is a core philosophy. Connecting to other ...

New industry body to launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... supporting the association. "Insurance is a multi-billion dollar industry, with massive potential for new ideas and technologies. By creating a clear focus point for insurtech policy and bringing together people from the startup and corporate sectors ...

Technology will shape financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... Association of Financial Advisers National Adviser Conference which started on Wednesday at the Gold Coast. The rise of new technologies creating business efficiencies, particularly the significant potential offered by deploying blockchain, will be the ...

Traditional funds too apathetic to super start-ups

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... believes traditional funds should be doing more to innovate as they are more than capable of adopting necessary new technologies to replicate the models of emerging start-ups such as Spaceship, Zuper and Grow Super. SuperEd is a digital financial advice ...

BigTech: The next frontier for high-net-worth investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... wealth management firms to partner with BigTech to win over HNWIs with "truly innovative offering build on the latest technologies." To date, only a few BigTech firms have forayed into wealth management in a significant way. Yu'e Bao, an investment product ...

FSC takes aim at complacency in super

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... Trustee Tailored Super (TTS), the FSC makes an argument that while the world is propelled forward by rapidly advancing technologies, "the superannuation industry in Australia looks much the same as it did when universal super was legislated 25 years ...

Financial services employees want digital strategy input: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
Financial services' rapid deployment of intelligent customer-facing technologies are "existentially threatening" to a majority of the sector's employees, latest research shows. Three quarters (76%) of the 1390 respondents in a Microsoft survey believe ...