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ANZ trials voice biometrics

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
ANZ will be the first Australian bank to introduce voice biometrics for higher value transactions on mobile devices. From the middle of this year, customers transferring more than $1000 through ANZ's mobile apps will be able to use their voice to automatically ...

BT and Asgard add bond fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... wholesale Australian government bond strategy; it was recently rated as "recommended" by Lonsec. The fund is distributed by Channel Capital, whose head of distribution, Andrew King, said: "We have identified heightened bank related risks within Australian ...

AMP reshapes advice businesses, appoints MD

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... as managing director, Charter; Chris Digby as managing director of SMSF advice and Jigsaw; and Dave Akers as director, channel strategy and services. Akers will oversee the new channel strategy and services team, which AMP said will "focus on simplifying ...

Not our job to protect big insurers: APRA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
The rise of peer-to-peer insurance and smaller insurance tech companies should be taken as a warning to established players - and APRA isn't going to protect outdated business models from failing. APRA member and former Suncorp Life chief executive ...

Life insurance ripe for disruption

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Unprecedented challenges in the life insurance industry are exacerbating profitably and forcing some players out of the market, the latest PwC report shows. Customer demographics, ongoing trust issues, heightened regulation, foreign entrants, technology ...

Gen Y prefers liquid investments: KPMG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Generation Y professionals favour short-term investments with only 12% investing in products such as managed funds and ETFs. This is a key finding of KPMG's Banking on the Future 2017 report which shows Gen Y prefers liquid investments that can easily ...

Former ING DIRECT chief joins P2P lender

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
Peer-to-peer lender RateSetter now has the services of a former bank chief executive renowned for driving innovation and competition. Joining the RateSetter Australian board as a non-executive director is former ING DIRECT chief executive Vaughn Rictor. ...

Fidante creates small-cap boutique

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
Investment management company Fidante Partners is continuing to expand its offering with the formation of Lennox Capital Partners. The new investment boutique, led by James Dougherty and Liam Donohue, is an Australian small-cap fund manager under the ...

Kaplan uses AI to stop adviser social media blunders

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
Kaplan Professional entered a partnership to develop a new tool to help advisers create compliant social media content by identifying "risky" language in real-time. Artemis, developed by Kaplan and regtech firm Red Marker, checks compliance issues associated ...

Praemium board terminates CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... acquisition allows Praemium to enter the UK private pension space, with a platform-based offering opening up a new distribution channel for the SMA," Praemium's statement said.