BNP Paribas Securities Services has announced a new partnership with Digital Asset to design a number of real-time trade and settlement apps using DAML[1] smart contracts. The new apps will provide market participants in Asia Pacific with real-time access to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX)’s anticipated DLT[2]-based trading and settlement... Read more continue reading
16
Sep
2020
Fintech and Insuretech innovation hub, Axell, has released a comprehensive research report, Human touch in a new digital world: The future of financial advice, (the Report) which explores future opportunities for digitally transforming financial advice around the world. Axell Founder and CEO, Moshe Tamir, said extensive research for the Report was conducted over a six-month... Read more continue reading
01
Sep
2020
For the third year running, the BT Panorama mobile app achieved the highest ratings from advisers surveyed, according to the latest Investment Trends Planner Technology Report. Nine out of ten advisers who use BT Panorama rated the app as ‘good’ or ‘very good’, positioning BT Panorama as the clear market leader (90 per cent for... Read more continue reading
13
Jul
2020
Software as a Service (SaaS) company Cake Equity (Cake) has partnered with innovative capital markets platform Wholesale Investor to digitise, innovate, and streamline capital raises, share registries, employee share schemes, and valuations for startups and small business. Recent research from Wholesale Investor shows the leading problem for startups is access to investors, closely followed by... Read more continue reading
09
Jul
2020
Roar Software is revolutionising the experience of financial advice with the release of its industry-first advice viewing tool, allowing clients and advisers to view and interact with a Statement of Advice (SOA) or strategy document in a web-based environment. It allows clients to ask questions in real-time and an adviser to provide instantaneous feedback on... Read more continue reading
03
Jul
2020
Westpac has welcomed the launch of the next phase of Open Banking which allows personal banking customers to share certain data with trusted third parties. Starting yesterday, eligible Westpac customers can share their credit and debit card data, as well as deposit and transaction account data, with accredited third parties. The type of data available... Read more continue reading
02
Jul
2020
Global research house Investment Trends has released its latest Robo-advice Report, an in-depth study of the adoption and appetite for automated investment services. The study is based on a large-scale survey of almost 20,000 online investors across Australia, the USA, the UK, Spain, Germany, France, Singapore and Hong Kong. Key highlights: US providers continue to... Read more continue reading
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Jun
2020
A majority of financial firms’ risk managers in Australia don’t believe they can adequately assess the risks of disruptive technologies, with only 8% describing themselves as fully capable of assessing the risks associated with adopting artificial intelligence (AI) across their organisations, according to a new report by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). Even fewer said they are fully capable... Read more continue reading
10
Jun
2020
Electronic execution of documents is bedevilling lawyers across the country because of the complex interweaving of various statutes and the common law. John and Mary have an SMSF and are the directors of the corporate trustee. They have recently changed the trustee of their SMSF from individual trustees to a corporate trustee. This was a... Read more continue reading
09
Jun
2020
Digital data has expanded beyond imagination, and can create some serious issues for privacy and human rights, especially when it comes to the sensitive health data now being used in the battle against Covid-19. The amount of data in the world will reach about 40 trillion gigabytes in 2020, or more than 5,000 gigabytes for... Read more continue reading
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May
2020
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