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Robinhood hit with record-breaking fine

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... the platform failed to address. The most serious outage occurred between 2-3 March 2020, when Robinhood's website and mobile applications shut down, preventing customers from accessing their accounts during peak market volatility. Robinhood was ordered ...

Tempered positivity post-pandemic: Experts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... pandemic that has remained at that elevated level. "Cash was basically replaced in this period... more people are using mobile wallets, debit cards and changing the way they are paying for things," he added. Singh said governments around the world ended ...

Fidelity Investments to hire 1000 advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... workers. Hiring technology experts is in response to a nearly 60% year-over-year increase in digital interactions on retail mobile and web platforms. The new roles will design, build and drive digital solutions for individual investors. In 2020, Fidelity ...

MetLife expands virtual health service

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
... full suite of options, and will be offered to its retail customers, via financial advisers. Teledoc will be delivered via mobile app, website and phone, and services will be rolled out throughout the year. MetLife head of health Mark Raberger said: "MetLife's ...

Ethical fund awards registry mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... outsourced administration model overseen by OneVue. The mandate will allow U Ethical to leverage web-based capabilities, mobile app, online workflow capabilities and order pad. OneVue chief executive officer for fund and platform services Richard Harris-Smith ...

NAB swallows up neobank

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... Founded by Cuscal, a Sydney-based IT service management company, and led by chief executive Robert Bell, 86 400 launched the mobile-led digital bank and was granted an ADI licence in July 2019. Under the acquisition agreement, its 85,000 customers, $375 ...

First Sentier launches infrastructure fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... portfolio of up to 40 stocks. The sectors the companies operate in include utilities (electric, natural gas and water), mobile tower operators, freight railways, energy pipelines, waste management and data centers, as well as listed companies outside ...

Amazon Web Services expands Australian operations

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... cloud including compute, storage, analytics, artificial intelligence, database, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, mobile services, serverless, and more to drive innovation. AWS senior vice president of global infrastructure Peter DeSantis said ...

Super funds overlook digital engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... fund's website and nearly two thirds (59%) do not know how to use them. Members also expressed a strong preference for mobile apps. A recent study of 2850 super fund members by Forrester found that only half were satisfied with their provider's ...

Worst investment ideas revealed: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... the list of bad ideas was physical bank branches, as the ARK researchers think consumer banking will shift to digital and mobile and banks that have invested too much in physical locations could be set to lose out. Digital-only banks are poised to take ...