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Former NAB risk committee chair joins Wingate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... Defence's defence audit and risk committee, and has held directorships at Rothschild, The Seven Network, Bluescope Stel and IBM Australia. Rizzo said: "Wingate's senior executives are deeply knowledgeable and professional, with a nice blend of wanting ...

Former StatePlus MD joins Australian Ethical

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... Australia and internationally. Monaghan has held roles at Intech Investment Consultants, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Deutsche Bank, IBM and Lend Lease Corporation. He is currently deputy chair of HammondCare, and a non-executive director of Alpha Vista ...

Wealth begins its blockchain reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... to Qingdao, China using a distributed ledger known as Skuchain's Brackets system. In July 2017, ANZ and Westpac teamed with IBM and shopping centre operator Scentre Group to digitise the bank guarantee process used for commercial property leasing. The ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... says this good relative performance is made possible by advancing technologies and availability of data for modelling, citing IBM's estimation that 90% of the world's existing data was produced in the past two years. "At the same time, the market is ...

Northern Trust partners for private equity blockchain

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... stakeholders to launch the first commercial implementation of blockchain technology for the private equity sector. Partnering with IBM, Northern Trust deployed a distributed ledger for the administration of a private equity fund managed by US$20 billion ...

GBST appoints new director

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... Asia Pacific, Europe and USA. Vu is a former chief information officer at Seek, and has previously held senior roles with IBM Consulting and Mars, and served as global chief information officer for BP's retail business. He is currently managing director ...

Millennials getting personal with ANZ robo-adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
Millennials were more interested in asking ANZ's IBM Watson-powered robo-adviser whether it was married to Siri than getting insurance information, according to ANZ Group Innovation channel development manager Jeanette Cheah. Speaking on a panel at ...

CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... said. Several other financial services firms have announced experimenting with innovation labs, including ANZ's agreement with IBM and a lab set up by Kinetic Super. The labs are said to create a collaborative approach to innovation that connects customers ...

Swiss Re to use artificial intelligence in underwriting

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
Swiss Re has announced it will partner with IBM to make use of its Watson artificial intelligence technology. The first Swiss Re business line to use this "cognitive computing" service will be life and health reinsurance, and according to Swiss Re's ...

Link Group shuffles board

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... of its growth as a leader in technology-enabled financial and wealth data management." The group has also appointed former IBM Australia/New Zealand managing director Glen Boreham, ASIC External Advisory board member Sally Pitkin and first Frontier Advisors ...