Austrac detecting, disrupting international criminals 13 July 2017 4:37PM AUSTRAC released Australia's first risk assessment of the securities and derivatives sector yesterday, rating the risk of criminal exploitation for the sector at the "high end of 'medium'". read more
Loans and M&A activity drop in 2016 13 July 2017 4:12PM Loans with three and five-year tenors made up almost half (48 per cent) of all the loan volume in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), according to the latest APAC league table. Facilities with a three-year tenor.. read more
Australia well set for light touch data share regime: Xero 07 July 2017 4:43PM European banks and payment service providers are reinventing their business and technology strategies; a senior Xero executive believes there is enough expertise in Australia around data management to.. read more
SME lender eliminates fraud with airport level security 07 July 2017 2:33PM Sail Business Loans co-founder and CEO Yanir Yakutiel is confident he has a business model that works. With early round funding secured from wealthy family offices, and insto investors ready to b.. read more
SWIFT expands cross-border blockchain payments testing 07 July 2017 2:31PM Two of Australia's major banks are among a group of global banks testing SWIFT's new blockchain application, aimed at reconciling international nostro accounts in real time. read more
Crowd-sourced funding platform Bankrolla is not a bank 06 July 2017 2:49PM The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has agreed that changing the name of a crowd-sourced funding platform to Bankrolla is unlikely to mislead investors into believing it is a bank. read more
Borrowers and lenders activity slowing 30 June 2017 4:49PM The Australian National Accounts from the ABS for the quarter to March 2017, covering finance and wealth measures indicates volatility in borrowing and lending has declined. read more
Europe's biggest fintech Klarna gets a banking licence 30 June 2017 4:47PM For most companies and businesses, the use of the words 'innovative' or 'innovation' have become just standard marketing practice. That critique cannot be levelled at the Scandinavian fintech, Klarna,.. read more
The robots are coming, but not this year 30 June 2017 4:46PM Going on a 'digital journey' towards 'business transformation' might be among the latest buzzwords to be bandied about, but even so, Australia's biggest banks, still busy wrestling with legacy systems.. read more
Conflicting bankers' obligations does not equal unconscionable conduct 30 June 2017 4:44PM A recent Federal Court case tested the implication that relationship bankers who did not share information internally about their customers could be acting unconscionably. read more