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GROW recruits HESTA exec to lead product push

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2025
... Waterreus' career spans startups and IPO-stage enterprises through to ASX-50 companies in communications, retail, medtech, fintech and cybersecurity. He joins from cyber-risk SaaS platform UpGuard, where as global vice president he led the people ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
About three years ago, robo-advisers, one by one, began dropping like flies. The likes of Six Park, Upstreet and Advice Intelligence either folded or were acquired. Even Ellerston Capital's ethically based robo-adviser, which launched in early 2023 ...

MHC Digital partners to launch stablecoin platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
MHC Digital Group has entered a 50/50 joint venture with Catena Digital to launch Macropod, Australia's first fully licensed, AUD-backed stablecoin platform. Through the platform, it will issue its stablecoin at 1:1 against Australian dollars held in ...

Binance names head of APAC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... Authority of Singapore. Seker's appointment came just months after Matt Poblocki, another senior executive with a strong fintech and legal background, joined Binance as general manager, Australia and New Zealand, in July. Teng has made three key ...

Picture Wealth named fastest-growing planner: report

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2025
A financial planning group that began life as a fintech start-up is enjoying a rapid growth phase. Picture Wealth Advisory leads the top 10 AFSLs with the highest number of new advisers in the year to June, based on a new financial adviser report released ...

Binance appoints new head of Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2025
Binance has welcomed a fintech founder to the position of general manager, Australia and New Zealand to embrace the next wave of digital assets across the region. Matt Poblocki, who carries expertise across the commercial, legal and regulatory landscapes ...

Northern Trust selected to test tokenised asset uses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
Project Acacia - first announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Treasury back in September 2024 - will now include industry participants to explore how digital currencies and existing settlement infrastructure might support the development ...

Profile Financial Services names new chief, chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2025
... the new chair of the board. Dooley brings over 20 years of experience across wealth management, financial services, and fintech, with a track record of driving strategic growth, cultural transformation, and client focused innovation, Profile said. Most ...

‍Padua recruits tech professional

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
Padua Solutions has appointed Dimitri Diamantes to the newly created role of senior technical services manager, overseeing the advice fintech's software, services, research and data divisions. Diamantes has almost two decades of experience in financial ...

New SMSF industry body launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... role she assumed in early 2025. The council, which comprises 12 experts in the fields of accounting, auditing, SMSFs and fintech, held its first sitting at the Digital Economy Conference this week. The SMSF Innovation Council also includes ASF Audits ...