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Fintech apps disrupt advice model

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
Fintechs are deploying the next generation of financial planning applications and disrupting the traditional advice model, a new study has found. In response to advisers' demand for increased process efficiency and compliance automation, the latest ...

Accountants expand robo-advice reach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... personalised investment advice and portfolio management while partnered accountants will have full visibility through the fintech's online dashboard. This includes access to client portfolios, investment profiles, performance reports and statements to ...

Singapore fintech shutters Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
A Singapore-based fund manager and crowdfunding platform will cease its Australian operations less than a year after listing on the ASX. CoAssets, which was admitted to the ASX last August, specialises in crowdfunding investment services for small-to-medium ...

Westpac minimises disruption with disruption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... Mobile app and integrates a Westpac icon into their keyboard. Westpac Keyboard uses a secured payment system developed by fintech start-up PayKey and can be used within apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, Snapchat and WeChat, as well ...

Fintechs and instos must align: Saxo

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... approaches. Saxo Bank founder and chief executive Kim Fournais said the intersection of traditional financial services firms and fintech start-ups has created a global profit pool of about US$4.5 trillion ($5.8 trillion), meaning the opportunity for ...

Crowdfunding legislation gets greenlight

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... businesses unprecedented access to alternate sources of capital - an opportunity many have been waiting for, according to FinTech Australia. The Senate passed the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-Sourced Funding) Bill 2016, which allows small-scale businesses ...

Fintech Nod takes on the unadvised

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
A new fintech is hoping to reach out to the 80% of people who don't see financial advisers via a digital financial advice platform. Nod, backed by accelerator H2 Ventures, is aiming to bring financial experts to people on demand. Clients can ask a question ...

Midwinter adds fintech partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
Midwinter added a new life insurance software solutions provider to its advice operating system AdviceOS. Omnium's life risk research tool OmniLife has been integrated into AdviceOS to enable real-time flow of insurance premium product data to the AdviceOS ...

AIA launches digital life insurance advice tool

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... to raise an extra three to $6 million on top of a recent $2.5 million to help with its partnership with Challenger. The fintech aims to provide scaled financial advice to Australians in the pre-retirement phase, through the provision of affordable online ...

Compliance and cybersecurity keeping bankers awake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... regulators and consumers." In terms of operations, Dring added banks should streamline operating models and partner with fintech, blockchain firms and other industry disruptors to deliver better services. "They need to be relentless in driving out costs ...