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Saxo Bank moves banking platform to cloud

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Saxo Bank has entered a strategic partnership with tech giant Microsoft, under which it will aim to run the technology stack for all of its banking products on Microsoft cloud. Founder and chief executive Kim Fournai said the move will help the bank ...

Affordable advice outsourcing at the ready

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
A new partnership will provide financial advice practices with access to a cost-effective, "off the shelf" outsourcing solution to ease back-office pressures. DBA Advisory and financial planning software provider FinPal have joined forces to improve ...

Xero appoints former Microsoft Australia chief

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
Xero has named its new chief executive, succeeding founder Rod Drury. Steve Vamos will take the reins at Xero on April 1. Vamos is the former chief executive of Microsoft Australia and New Zealand as well as Asia-Pacific managing director at Apple. ...

ME Bank recruits for people experience

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
A former general manager at Microsoft is the new group executive, people experience at ME Bank. The industry super fund-owned bank recently appointed Melanie Simpson, who will sit on the executive team and manage ME Bank's people and culture functions. ...

SMSF balance gap to close: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
The superannuation reforms could narrow the growing self-managed super fund balance gap between male and female members, latest Class insights show. Men typically have 37% more assets than women, and between the ages of 60 and 80 men can retire with ...

Financial services employees want digital strategy input: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
Financial services' rapid deployment of intelligent customer-facing technologies are "existentially threatening" to a majority of the sector's employees, latest research shows. Three quarters (76%) of the 1390 respondents in a Microsoft survey believe ...

SSGA fund divests tobacco and weapons

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
A State Street Global Advisors Australian-based fund with about $900 million under management is divesting from weapons and tobacco companies. The State Street Global Index Plus Trust, which invests in global companies and aims to outperform the MSCI ...

Douglass makes case for Magellan turnaround

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... benchmark. Douglass said this was largely driven by Magellan's holdings in Apple (2.83% of net return), eBay (1.68%) and Microsoft (1.54%). Laying out his case for the increasing prominence of "digital-platform companies," Douglass said stocks like the ...

Super fund inks multi-million dollar tech upgrade

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
A $24 billion industry superannuation fund has signed an enterprise-wide managed services agreement with global information and communication technology service provider Dimension Data. The agreement will see Dimension Data design, supply, implement ...

Finance braces for Amazon effect

EMMA RAPAPORT AND DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
The arrival of Amazon Marketplace in Australia will disrupt several businesses and the financial services industry won't be immune to the online store's influence. Already sending shockwaves through local major retailers, Australian fintech Avoka believes ...