Super fund Rest recruits UBank CIO
UBank’s chief information officer Jeremy Hubbard is joining superannuation fund Rest to lead a team covering strategy and planning, IT management, innovation, and data governance.
UBank’s chief information officer Jeremy Hubbard is joining superannuation fund Rest to lead a team covering strategy and planning, IT management, innovation, and data governance.
A new core platform rolled out by Mortgage Choice has increased its brokers’ productivity by close to a third and set the financial services provider up for the future by enabling continuous delivery of new features, according to Vincent ten Krooden.
IT executives in the insurance and superannuation sectors will be covered by an expanded executive accountability regime.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a restricted banking licence to Xinja — a digital-only bank with a focus on mobile.
The boards of banks and other entities regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority are ultimately responsible for an organisation’s information security, states a new standard released today by APRA.
Westpac spent FY18 progressively migrating apps to its new private cloud environment, which the bank said was helping reduce app installation from weeks to hours.
“The cloud has become a major opportunity to drive lower cost, lower risk and faster speed,” NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn today told a briefing on the bank’s full year results.
In FY18 ANZ decommissioned 264 applications as part of the bank’s broader simplification push.
Fintech – startup companies offering innovative financial services — are often touted as a major threat to established banks, but, says Laura Crozier, global industry director, financial services at Software AG, it is the 'bigtech' companies — in particular Amazon, Apple and Google — they should fear most.
A successful AI strategy can’t just be based on technical capability within a business but should be underpinned by an agile culture that’s open to experimentation and a willingness to embrace data-driven decision-making, according to Microsoft’s CTO, Worldwide Services, Norm Judah.
NAB’s customers may one day be able to ditch their cards when withdrawing cash from automatic teller machines, with the bank partnering with Microsoft for a proof of concept ATM that uses facial recognition and a PIN to authorise transactions.
The Royal Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry will drive increased adoption of RegTech solutions in Australia according to Richard McCarthy.
Global payments network SWIFT has partnered with Microsoft for a proof of concept project that uses the technology company’s Azure cloud.
The banking sector is in the midst of its greatest technology-driven transformation since the introduction of the ATM, according to the chief executive of Trade Ledger Martin McCann.
The Australian financial services sector is in the midst of the most dramatic period of change since the deregulation of banking in the 1980s.