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LG Investments chooses Charles River

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
LG Investment Group has chosen financial software and service provider, Charles River Development, to implement its Investment Management System (IMS) to their business after a successful three-week trial.

Having another crack at online mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
As business models go, one of the all-time worst may be selling home loans on the internet.

IWL's trading platform in your pocket

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
IWL's online stockbroking business, Sanford Securities, has taken share trading mobile with the launch of Australia's first dedicated mobile share trading website for both 2G and 3G internet-enabled mobile phones and PDA's.

Videoconferencing made Easynet

Financial services companies eager to cut their carbon footprint can now avail themselves of high-tech videoconferencing technology after a new deal signed by Easynet.

Lack of automation hikes costs

A study conducted through a digital voting system (digivote) at this year's annual SIBOS conference, the biggest global event in IT banking and finance, has found that 40 per cent of survey respondents named operational efficiency and cost reduction ...

BlackRock inches closer to global SMA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
BlackRock Investment Management is currently testing its long-awaited move into international shares.

Encrypt your email: Tumbleweed

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
Finance companies may be providing adequate internet security in their businesses but new threats continue to emerge that will constantly put staff internal and outgoing emails at risk, warned an internet security expert.

Challenger FP revs up Synergy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Challenger's financial planning arm has invested in additional hardware and software to increase the processing power of its platform business, Synergy Capital Management, by up to ten times.

CBA counting on NAB and Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
National Australia Bank and Westpac may not be that likely to wind up their contract to source stockbroking services from IWL even once Commonwealth Bank takes control of the supplier of broking technology solutions.

Bravura and Perpetual develop new SOA package

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2007
Bravura Solutions has teamed up with Perpetual to develop a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) compliant application, Sonata Business Services.