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CBA faces anti-money laundering allegations

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... Financing Act 2006 more than 53,000 times. The allegations include that CBA was late to report their intelligent deposit machines (IDMs) were potentially being used by multiple suspected money laundering syndicates, linked to criminal activity including ...

AI to influence consumer trust: Medcraft

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... artificial intelligence is at an early stage, it's developing faster than anyone expected. "I do think we are on the cusp of machines that can understand the world and respond effectively...If we think about financial services, artificial intelligence ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... shifted the goal posts for active equity investment, announcing it will take the enormous step of combining humans and machines for stock selection. The question is what scale does this new man and machine combination give to BlackRock - a US$5.1 trillion ...

BlackRock's Fink commends Aussie infrastructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... simplify these challenges. Last month BlackRock announced plans to introduce artificial intelligence, embracing the power of machines to enhance its active equities capabilities. "We are using machine learning, artificial intelligence and advanced data ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... second machine age" at a recent media briefing in Sydney. "One of the key forces in play is the displacement of labour by machines. Some of this is factory automation or services moving online," Budden said from Singapore via the company's impressive ...

Now is the time to accommodate the sellers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... environmental technology, online travel agents and sensors. One of the key forces in play is the displacement of labour by machines. Some of this is factory automation or services moving online." Amid market turbulence, however, the journey to success ...

Robots can't read your dreams, advice firm warns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... support and prove a high level, personalised financial advisory service is the best way forward, rather than allowing machines to take over." Downs said that robo-advice offers a less expensive service and allows banks to cross-sell wealth products to ...

Plastics manufacturer launches $40m bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... film, stretch film, pallet wrap film and agricultural film products. It also distributes a full range of pallet wrapping machines and associated equipment. "This issue is a significant step forward for IPG as it will allow us to re-finance $60 million ...

Tech "arms race" to spur banking competition

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... controversial debate around robo-advice and bank staff being replaced by robots, EY said: "While we expect self-service machines to replace cashiers and mobile wallets to become commonplace, we believe branch staff will still have a critical advisory ...

Robots will take over white collar jobs first

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... medium and high-skilled workers" and noted that "computers are programmed to diagnose illnesses faster than doctors, machines can analyse volumes of legal text in a fraction of the time that a solicitor can." It listed the jobs most at risk of being ...