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AMP Banking taps Cuscal ATM network

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
AMP Banking customers will continue to receive access to fee-free ATMs, despite the new Direct Charging rules that will come into effect in March, after the bank signed a deal with Cuscal, owner of the rediATM network.

Plum opens investment website

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Plum Financial Services has launched an equity market and investment information website, Investor market watch, for its members.

Trade and chat at CMC Markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2009
Move over Facebook, a new social network program is in town - CMC Markets traders are now chatting, trading, and sharing their secrets of success with each other on the firm's Trading Social Network.

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
Australian based wealth management administration providers Bravura and Praemium have scored international deals that will see the firms export their services to Vietnam and the UK respectively.

Sunsuper signs on SunGard

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Sunsuper is beefing up its technology platforms and services by employing SunGard to help oversee its recently acquired funds administration business, CSA Retirement Services.

Superpartners to push for paperless super admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Superannuation admin provider Superpartners plans to invest $70 million into replacing its core administration systems and other IT processes in a bid to become "100 per cent electronic" in three years' time.

BPM measures carbon impact

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Super funds and companies will be able to forecast the impact of the proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) after BPM Financial Modelling developed a carbon tool.

Standard Chartered signs on SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Tech firm SmartStream Technologies has signed on Standard Chartered Bank onto its TLM Reconciliations system to create a global reconciliations platform.

You are what you Google

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Among the top finance term searches on Google this year were 'superannuation', 'interest rates' and 'investment banks' but as to which keyword was more popular than the other changed state by state, according to Google Australia.

IRESS risk research improves

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
IRESS' risk research system IQM+ has undergone a tune up with added extensions to its product to better help advisers determine personal insurance coverage based on affordability.