FINTECH

Accounting

Independent financial data source, InvestmentLink, today announced the establishment of a data grant to support emerging fintech companies....

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Funds management

Technology funds were cheap and offered strong long-term investment opportunities, according to BT Investment Management’s head of global equities. ...

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Financial planning

Financial services technology start-ups were not the only ones facing barriers to innovation due to the financial services licensing regimes and thus should not be grante...

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Policy & Regulation

OnDeck Australia has today announced that it has, in partnership with CBA, won the Fintech-Bank Collaboration of the Year Award....

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Superannuation

Link has partnered with digital advice tool provider, Ignition Wealth, after it signalled that it would move into the holistic advice space....

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Policy & Regulation

The ASX’s proposed IPO rules will mean nearly all retail investors and SMSFs will not have the opportunity to invest in most IPOs, according to a capital raising platform...

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People & Products

Australian Unity’s Lifeplan has launched an investor portal for investors to track their investments, off the back of its adviser portal experience....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that ASIC’s proposal for a regulatory sandbox may prove to be a decisive element in the growth of Australian fintechs....

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Funds management

Australian and Singaporean regulators have signed a co-operation agreement to support innovative business and fintech companies as they foray into the respective markets....

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Financial planning

Fintech start-ups can rely on third parties for sign off to meet their competence obligation but it isn’t clear whether they are liable if the start-up fails, a lawyer sa...

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Financial planning

AstuteWheel has today launched the Astute Estate Planner which overhauls the process for professionals by lessening time constraints....

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Policy & Regulation

ASIC has formally canvassed the use of a “regulatory sandbox” approach which would allow fintech companies to test products for six months without an AFSL....

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People & Products

Former Federal Labor MP, Bernie Ripoll, has joined the board of robo-advice focus group, Map My Plan as a director....

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Superannuation

Super funds see robo-advice as a service they will provide free to members as a channel to comprehensive offerings that will attract a charge....

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Funds management

Income specialist FIIG Securities is launching a mobile app, set to open the bond market to investors....

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