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Deutsche AM maps impact of climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... offshore oil and gas infrastructure, how floods could disrupt supply chains, or whether extreme heat affects labour productivity in the agricultural and construction sectors, Deutsche AM said. "The availability of this new data on physical climate risk ...

Wealth, insurance arms hit banks' earnings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... on technology and restructuring initiatives. KPMG noted robotics and process automation remains high on the banks' productivity and efficiency agendas. "We see few institutions that aren't actively considering these technologies as a way of reducing ...

NAB to simplify operations via job cuts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... 2020, though overall about 6000 roles will be impacted as the bank accelerates its strategy to grow and maintain productivity. NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn said the 2000 new roles will involve different capabilities to support the strategy such ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial services companies are investing in adopting or applying ...

Mental health an underlying business problem: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... two-thirds of survey participants thought that investing in mental health and wellbeing at workplaces "would improve productivity, and over half believe it would reduce absenteeism." "Those businesses already implementing best practice for their employees ...

Increased scrutiny driving regtech need

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... encourages the industry to be serious about building a true culture of compliance. Regtech creates efficiencies and productivity improvements to manage regulatory obligations in a cost-effective and compliant manner," he said. Kaplan and Red Marker are ...

Regulatory costs unsustainable: FPA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... only reduce competition but see consumers bear the brunt of additional compliance costs. In its submission to the Productivity Commission's inquiry on competition in the Australian financial system, the FPA raised concerns over the ever changing regulatory ...

Advisers can scale via workplace super clients

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... the financial wellness of staff members, namely because highly engaged employees can help deliver higher levels of productivity and can result in higher profit margins for the business.

Lack of expertise driving down competition: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
In its submission to the Productivity Commission, APRA called out a lack of expertise and systems capabilities as hindering competition in the Australian financial sector. Noting the high levels of concentration in many financial industry sectors, measured ...

Hands off super: SMSFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... Association is repeating its calls for a "sustained period of stability" in the superannuation system, telling the Productivity Commission that legislative change and speculation is an impediment to an efficient system that can deliver the best retirement ...