Australia’s AtlasTrend releases voice-activated finance bot
AtlasTrend, the financial investment platform helping Australians invest in global trends, is launching Australia’s first voice-activated personal investment assistant, Astro, once again challenging traditional institutions and approaches to investing money. One of the first voice-activated fintech bots in Australia, Astro is available on Google Home, Google Home Mini and Google Assistant devices, and uses verbal commands to allow transactional capabilities for AtlasTrend investors, and provide users with real-time responses and information on AtlasTrend’s investment portfolios and general investment info. Following Astro’s initial launch, the team are set to develop and roll-out additional capabilities throughout the year, further enhancing its functionality and user experience. Astro will inform users of AtlasTrend’s investments, […]
Chinese blockchain delegation hunts Aussie opportunities
A high-powered delegation of Chinese technology executives is in Australia this week for discussions on blockchain, including how China plans to apply it to trading relationships. The companies are a who’s who of China’s fintech elite. Senior managers from Ant Financial, WeBank, JD.com, ZhongAn, Wanxiang and OnChain have made the trip south. They’re being led by Ming Li, director of the China Electronics Standardisation Institute, which has responsibility for setting blockchain industry standards under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Blockchain records and verifies transactions in synchronised databases providing transparency and security. The architecture will end up underpinning an “internet of value”, which proponents reckon will be as important […]
Digital currency exchange opens Australia’s first OTC desk for institutions
Independent Reserve, the Australian Digital Currency exchange, has opened Australia’s first over-the-counter trading desk for institutions wanting to make large digital currency trades. CEO Adrian Przelozny said the lack of block trading venues had been a barrier for institutions to participate in digital currency investment. “Digital currency markets are just like any other asset class, in that when the market sees a big trade coming through it will move the price against whoever is making that trade,” he said. “In equity markets they solve that problem with dark pools and sales trading desks, but there is no digital currency equivalent in Australia as yet. By establishing an OTC desk with […]
Bitcoin Trading: Where to Start?
Bitcoin divides opinion. Some think it’s the most revolutionary development in global finance ever, whilst others are all too eager to demonize it as “fraud” or Ponzi Scheme. Whatever your opinion of the world’s first truly decentralized money, one thing is certain: the price is incredibly volatile. It’s not uncommon for Bitcoin to see 20% moves in just 24 hours. In fact, the largest swing ever in the price of Bitcoin was in 2013. It dropped from $233 to $67 in a single night. For investors, a crash of 71% such as the one experienced that April will have been heart-wrenching to endure. However, not all would have lost money […]
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 […]
What caused the Cryptocurrency Boom of 2017?
Bitcoin, which is a digital currency (cryptocurrency), saw a 2000% increase in value from January 1, 2017, to December 16, 2017. Today, cryptocurrencies are the world’s fastest-growing asset class with a market cap of $645 billion, up from just $15 billion in 2017. The lightning rise of Bitcoin led to an accusation by JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who called it a “fraud worse than tulip bulbs,” referring to the Dutch tulip bulb bubble that burst in 1637. Other critics like investor Warren Buffet labeled Bitcoin a “mirage,” and cautioned people to “stay away from it.” These are both serious accusations. So why are some people so critical of cryptocurrencies? Up […]
How to safely buy and sell cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency exchanges and theft have been regular news since Bitcoin went big, but that hasn’t deterred investors: The number of digital cryptocurrency wallets in existence by the end of 2017 was 21.5 million. That’s a huge increase from 2015, when only 5.4 million wallets were around. Along with the new popularity of cryptocurrency has come a new breed of cryptocurrency criminals. In 2016 $95 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen, and in 2017 the amount stolen exploded: $115 million was lost to phishing, $103 million to exploitation of software and storage, $7.4 million to hacks, and $4,000 to Ponzi schemes. That’s a lot of lost cryptocurrency—so how are criminals doing […]
These are the 12 cryptocurrencies fintech experts say will soar by the end of 2018
A group of fintech leaders say bitcoin will hit $38,000 by the end of 2018, but its 194% growth will be miniscule compared to rising cryptocurrency stars. Comparison site finder.com.au has just released the results of its March Cryptocurrency Predictions Survey, forecasting how the top 10 by market cap and top two trending cryptocurrencies will perform in 2018. Comparing the forecast market capitalisations, nine experts say the big three – bitcoin, bitcoin cash and ethereum – will experience modest growth by crypto standards: Bitcoin – +194% Bitcoin cash – +123% Ethereum – +212% But of the 12 coins reviewed, by far the biggest forecast came for Dogecoin, the digital currency […]
