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Equipsuper invests in fintech, robo-advice firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Equipsuper has invested in a fintech startup that will develop the fund's digital advice and investment platform. Clover is a Melbourne-based financial technology company that offers an automated investment service. The platform adopts a goals-based ...

Aussie fintechs sell to grow

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
More than 30 Australian and New Zealand financial technology start-ups have put their case forward as to how they can progress the digital expansion of financial services. Speaking in front of prominent investors and industry professionals at the Afiniation ...

Financial services most at risk from disruption

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
... Showcase in Sydney this morning, an event which brings together the best and brightest from the Australian and New Zealand fintech industry, giving each seven minutes to present to potential partners and investors. Duncombe said no industry will remain ...

IRESS acquires UK fintech businesses

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
IRESS has acquired two financial technology businesses based in the United Kingdom as part of the strategy to develop its operations there. One of the businesses is Proquote Limited, a provider of trading, market data and connectivity solutions, owned ...

Afiniation adds weight to Citi fintech initiative

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Fintech network Afiniation has announced it will work with Citi on the global financial services firm's latest financial technology initiative. The Citi Mobile Challenge in Asia Pacific is referred to by the bank as a "next-generation accelerator" that ...

Zero-margin platforms could target Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... Solutions research. Referencing economist Jeremy Rifkin's The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Bravura's report notes the rise of fintech startups like Robinhood, which offer free solutions to trading customers, and overseas fund managers considering direct-to-consumer ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Sydney fintech hub Stone and Chalk is aiming for Australia's entrepreneurs, technologists, scientists and mathematicians to receive the same status and respect as the country's sporting heroes. At the colourful Stone and Chalk official opening last ...

ASIC to foster fintech growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Finance Advisory Committee (DFAC) that will meet for the first time next month and advise the regulator on engagement with fintech businesses. DFAC forms one part of ASIC's "Innovation Hub" as the regulator attempts to find a balance between harvesting ...

Citi launches fintech challenge

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Citi is launching the Asia-Pacific Mobile Challenge, a competition for fintech developers to build mobile tools for Citi's digital platform. Australian developers will compete with others across the APAC region and will demonstrate their ideas at Citi-hosted ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... were "product-agnostic" - were based on research by InvestSMART's own dedicated in-house investment team. "We're not a fintech startup. We didn't start yesterday in a garage," he said. Noting that some other direct-to-consumer tools essentially comprised ...