Deakin researchers use AI to speed up IOOF customer processes

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Deakin researchers have partnered with financial services provider IOOF to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to the company’s in-house client administrative system – making processing times up to 400 times faster.... Read more continue reading

OpenMarkets clients first to access NSX via mobile trading app

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OpenMarkets Australia, a digital investing platform with more than 30,000 accounts, is the first to offer clients the ability to invest into companies listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSX)... Read more continue reading

Advisers demanding more from technology and platform providers

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The expectations from financial advisers on the ability for software and platform providers to act transparently and with integrity has substantially increased since the release of the Hayne Royal Commission... Read more continue reading

Pendal appoints Machine Learning expert for Fixed Income

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Pendal, one of Australia’s largest and most enduring pure investment managers, has made its first appointment of a dedicated Machine Learning Quantitative Analyst in its Bond, Income & Defensive Strategies... Read more continue reading

AstuteWheel expands Fintech with Regtech

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Client engagement solution, AstuteWheel, is celebrating its seventh birthday with the launch of third generation software that includes a regtech solution for financial planners. AstuteWheel Managing Director, Hans Egger, says... Read more continue reading

The silent disruption of the accounting industry

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Amidst the protest of taxi drivers against ride-sharing, the headlines of more manufacturing companies closing and uproar over telecommunications jobs moving overseas, the mature accounting industry is quietly undergoing a... Read more continue reading

Zurich LiveWell program empowers and rewards customers

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Zurich has unveiled a new wellness program – LiveWell – designed to empower and reward life insurance customers who take steps to improve and maintain their physical and mental wellness.... Read more continue reading

5G – connecting to new investment opportunities

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5G heralds a new era in telecommunications, one that’s focused on speed and software. It’s an area of interest for Munro Partners, one of GSFM’s investment partners and manager of... Read more continue reading

Refinitiv report finds Asia Pacific companies to ramp-up innovation as 75% fall prey to financial crime

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Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, has published its second annual financial crime report yesterday. Innovation and the fight against financial crime: How... Read more continue reading

New research reveals 80% of brokers, insurers and MGAs lack effective business intelligence tools

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According to new research by Novidea, the data-driven insurance distribution platform, 80% of the brokers, insurers and MGAs surveyed do not have effective business intelligence tools in place. One in five... Read more continue reading