National Australia Bank's chief information officer David Boyle has parted ways with the company following a major restructure of the bank’s technology function.
November saw a number of high-profile appointments across the financial services sector, with noteworthy additions to Westpac, BNZ, and Citi.
Citi Group has announced it has appointed former eBay chief data officer, Zoher Karu, to the position of head of data and analytics, Asia Pacific.
DBS Bank has announced a new collaboration with tech giant IBM to fast-track the development of intelligent automation technologies across its banking services.
The United Overseas Bank (UOB) has launched the first phase of its Professional Conversion Programme (PCP), designed to boost the digital skillset of its Singapore-based workforce.
Australia’s big four banks have successfully forced the hand of the Turnball government, with the Prime Minister this morning announcing a Royal Commission into the banking sector.
AUSTRAC, the Federal Government’s financial intelligence and regulatory agency, has announced it has concluded the first round of its financial intelligence analyst course (FIAC) in Melbourne.
Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC has secured a cooperation agreement with The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to nurture financial technology innovation and development across both jurisdictions.
New Zealand’s chief financial regulator, the Financial Markets Authority (FMA), has for the first time published data from the country's peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector, revealing the increasing prominence of alternative lenders in the NZ market.
AIA Hong Kong, a local subsidiary of pan-Asian life insurer AIA Group Limited, has announced it has developed and deployed a blockchain-enabled bancassurance network.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) Payments Council, an association of 20 industry leaders from the banking, payments and business sector, has endorsed specification for a common Singapore Quick Response (QR) Code.
DBS Bank has announced it will become Singapore’s first bank to convert its traditional data centre into a cloud-optimised hub.
Singapore and Hong Kong’s chief financial regulators have announced they will jointly develop a “world first” cross-border trade platform powered by blockchain.
Chief executives are overwhelmingly the driving force behind financial services' customer-centric transformation, according to delegates at the 2017 Future of Financial Services conference, Sydney.
Five years in development and with 13 major Australian financial institutions locked in, the New Payments Platform (NPP) is set to move into a “full production live environment” this week – the first stage of the payment network's full public rollout.
