FINTECH

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman, Greg Medcraft has pointed to financial services technology as being a disruptor of vertical integration....

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Life/Risk

Behavioural economics sits at the heart of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new example statement of advice for life/risk advisers....

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Financial planning

Data released by ServiceSeeking.com showed that 89 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises have never heard of fintech....

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced a cooperative agreement with Indonesia’s Otoritas Jasa Keuangan to promote fintech development....

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Financial planning

ASIC’s regulatory sandbox for testing fintech services will run for another year before the framework is reviewed....

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Financial planning

Robo-advice providers in the US were introducing the human element into their automated models, indicating the advice industry was not ready for fully automated services...

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Accounting

AccountantsIQ has introduced a white label statement of advice solution to assist accountants with advice documents in the wake of super reforms....

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Life/Risk

Aon and Adviser Ratings have entered a partnership to launch a cyber-insurance policy for advisers to allow them to take out cyber liability insurance....

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Financial planning

Wealth management firms continue to fall behind in facilitating the opening of accounts digitally but Australia was ahead of its global counterparts....

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Financial planning

H2 Ventures this week announced the accelerator would invest in its fourth cohort of start-ups for the country’s sole accelerator program....

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Financial planning

While Australian fintech investments hit a new high in 2016, the global investment rate dropped 47 per cent....

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Financial planning

Super administrator Link Group has partnered with fintech hub Stone & Chalk to open a new area of opportunity for commercial exploration and collaboration for fintech st...

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Policy & Regulation

Treasurer Scott Morrison was set to meet with counterparts in the UK and Germany to promote Australian fintech and developments in digitisation....

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Funds management

Trustees Australia and fintech operator, Cashwerkz, have announced a merger under which established businesses would buy a new platform and distribution network. ...

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has released licensing exemption for fintech businesses which would allow the firms to test certain services without holding an Australian financial service or credi...

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