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Technology

Lonsdale provides practice tools

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
Lonsdale Financial Group has launched a new practice management tool to help the group's financial planners to make their businesses more efficient and improve their overall service to clients.

PIS adds Olicc software

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Professional Investment Services (PIS) is implementing Olicc Technologies' software to assist the group's financial advisors track commissions and other key performance data.

Supercorp buys MYOB super software

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Brisbane based, Supercorp Australia, has bought the superannuation software business from MYOB.

Outsourcing the next boom market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Nearly one third of Australian businesses regard outsourcing as one of their top 10 priorities for the next 12 months - but many are still looking within Australia rather than overseas for outsourcing opportunities, new research show.

RBC Dexia bids faxes goodbye

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
RBC Dexia has taken additional steps to move custodial managed funds processing from being a manual to an automated approach following the launch of its new service this month.

Health Super signs Bravura

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Health Super has signed a deal with Bravura Solutions to enhance the fund's member online services and back of house administration.

AVG targets hacker behaviour

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
Financial services firms should look at behavioural technology and website pre-scanning as key tools in their fight against identity theft and cyber crime, according to IT security firm AVG.

Risk technology reloaded

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
Technology firm Sybase plans to help local investment managers avoid the mistakes of Wall Street when it launched a trading technology platform that alerts an investment firm to counterparty risk problems sooner rather than later.

Fidelity Intl names head of insto

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
Fidelity International has appointed Gary Bailey, the former managing director of Wellington Management for Australia and New Zealand, as head of its institutional business for Australia.

Coin makes marketing easy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
Coin is turning financial planners into graphic artists and marketing gurus after the technology firm added a new module that lets financial planners develop a stylish tailored marketing campaign.