Cashwerkz term deposit datafeeds now available through XPlan (IRESS).
Cashwerkz now provides a direct feed into XPlan, which enables advisers who hold their clients’ term deposits with Cashwerkz to map this portfolio information into their clients’ XPlan record. The datafeed from Cashwerkz will provide advisers with the ability to comprehensively measure asset allocation, cash exposure and liquidity levels from a total portfolio perspective. This provides a great opportunity for advisers to actively manage their client’s term deposits, enabling them to offer clients greater choice and potentially better outcomes for cash investments. “This is an exciting development for Cashwerkz to further service prospective and current loyal advisers who rely on Cashwerkz for their client’s cash investments” said Hector Ortiz, CEO […]
Link4 explores current bookkeeping issues with ICB CEO Amanda Linton
CEO of The Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, Amanda Linton, visited the Link4 office to provide an up to date insight into bookkeeping in 2018. This allows the Link4 team to stay on top of things and continue to serve bookkeepers diligently based on their current challenges. In her recent visit, Amanda Linton talked about the main issues bookkeepers face in their day-to-day business. More importantly, she discussed how technology is dramatically changing how they undertake their work. Bookkeepers are taking on a completely different role now to what they were a decade ago. “Ten years ago, bookkeepers would spend around 80 percent of their time entering data from invoices, […]
Pressing for progress for women in tech
In early November, the World Economic Forum announced a statistic that was hard to stomach: the gender gap widened for the first time in the last decade. A year ago the association claimed it would take 170 years to reach full gender parity, but now we’re up to 217 years. While there are many prominent areas of gender inequality in Australia’s workforce, one specific area hit close to home for us. Women occupy only one quarter of the Australian STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) workforce. In response to this statistic, this year we set out to learn more about what some of the leaders, both men and women, in the […]
Finnie awards launched for 2018
Australia’s 600+ fintech companies have been given the opportunity to get official recognition for their success, with entries opening for Australia’s only industry-backed awards. FinTech Australia and the NSW Government’s Jobs for NSW today came together to launch the 2018 Finnie awards. A total of 23 awards will be on offer, including FinTech Organisation of the Year, Outstanding FinTech Leader of the Year, Female FinTech Leader of the Year, Emerging FinTech Leader of the Year and Emerging FinTech Organisation of the Year. In addition, fintech companies will have the opportunity to be recognised for excellence in sectors such as lending, wealth management, payments, crowdfunding, blockchain, artificial intelligence and regtech. For […]
IRESS launches ebMS messaging service linking super funds directly with the ATO
IRESS today announced that it has launched an ebMS messaging service that provides superannuation funds with a verified integration pathway to send non-financial data directly to the Australian Tax Office (ATO). In response to the ATO moving from periodic reporting requirements to near real-time reporting of superannuation events and transactions, the IRESS ebMS messaging service supports ATO message flows to enable super funds to meet the following reporting and compliance obligations: Member Account Attribution Service (MAAS), the Member Accounts Transaction Service (MATS), SuperTICK (STIC) and Supermatch (SMAT). Provided as a managed service, IRESS’ ebMS provides a cost effective, compliant, resilient and robust messaging solution that eliminates the need to use […]
Global payments innovator Verrency accepted into another prestigious accelerator – Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley
Verrency, a global Australian payments platform and fintech marketplace, has been accepted into the latest fintech cohort of Silicon Valley-based technology accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center. Verrency was selected out of almost 1000 fintech start-ups to be a part of the prestigious accelerator program following a rigorous selection process, which involved voting from Plug and Play’s corporate financial services partners. Verrency is only one of three Australian firms to have ever been selected for entry into the fintech cohorts over the life of Plug and Play. During the next three months, Verrency will be introduced to Plug and Play’s corporate partners and work with the partners on potential pilots, […]
Macrovue launches its 5G technology investment portfolio
Leading fintech Macrovue announces the launch of its new investment portfolio built around the next phase of the wireless revolution – 5G technology. The 5G technology portfolio – known as a Vue, presents significant investment opportunities as it represents a technological paradigm shift, akin to the move from typewriter to the computer. 5G is more complex than any connectivity technology that came before it – delivering scalability and capability to allow the efficient operation of autonomous cars, smart-cities, huge advances in healthcare, and more sophisticated industrial automation. 5G will enable the connectivity of 25 billion Internet of Thing devices and more than 300,000 level three and four autonomous vehicles which are estimated to be […]
Moneysoft makes client engagement more compelling with its new user interface
Moneysoft has re-launched its client engagement and financial wellbeing platform with a more intuitive and streamlined user interface that cuts the time it takes professionals to analyse their clients’ key financial data. The launch follows a 12-month research and design process including extensive interviews and testing with a range of financial professionals who use Moneysoft’s personal financial management tool. Founder and Managing Director, Peter Malekas, said that seeking feedback is central to Moneysoft’s ethos of ongoing product and customer service improvement. “We encourage our users to tell us the features they’d like to see next, so that we can focus on making improvements that deliver the biggest impact to their […]
