Financial Services News

Australia’s fintech firms are the catalyst behind a growing demand for experienced financial services sector workers, a survey reveals.

Class has partnered with Depreciator to deliver data accuracy and boost depreciation schedule efficiency.

Global technology services provider GBST has announced it is ready to meet the challenge of the impending T+2 settlement regime for the Australian equities market.

Financial settlements solutions provider Ripple has signed a deal with $28 billion financial services giant SBI Holdings as the global fintech aggressively pushes to expand its influence across Asia Pacific.

A quarter of Generation X Hong Kong investors are in debt and do not have an effective plan for managing their finances in the long term, according to a new study by Manulife Asia.

Australian online broker Bell Direct has unveiled a partnership with Lincoln Indicators.

Transparent procurement choices are influenced by mobility, cyber-security planning, open data, and cloud-data centre integration.

Banks in Australia and New Zealand are lagging behind when it comes to providing “frictionless mobile experiences” for wealth management products.

Australian banks will need to adopt a forward-looking approach and move to leverage new technologies to counter new risk and regulatory threats, according to a study by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.

Australia and New Zealand fintech startup Suitebox has been crowned as the winner of KPMG’s global Fintech Innovation Challenge, receiving recognition in the mobile category.

The current crop of robo-advice tools available to advisers are limited and “devoid of personalisation” according to Intiger Asset Management founder, Mark Fisher.

ING has invested in Hong Kong-based fintech, WeLab, as the Dutch bank looks to expand its regional presence in Asia through mobile lending.

BTI Payments has inked a seven year strategic partnership with IBM in a move to overhaul its IT infrastructure.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has unveiled an innovation lab in Hong Kong as part of a broader move to establish a “global approach” to innovation.

48 per cent of Australian IT leaders will expand technology positions for staff members in the coming six months, according to findings by specialist recruiter Robert Half.