Smartline adds SME lender to panel
Smartline Mortgage Advisers has brought Prospa onto its lender panel to provide Smartline brokers with greater product choice for clients.
Commonwealth Bank trials smart-money on blockchain
A new type of smart money, powered by blockchain, has been successfully trialled by CSIRO’s Data61 and the Commonwealth Bank.
The smart money is on your phone to replace Go Card in Brisbane soon
Public testing for Queenslanders to ride trains, buses and ferries without having to touch on and off with a Go Card will begin in the second half of 2019
Five Steps to Being a Confident and Smart Bitcoin Investor
The crypto-economy may seem like a dangerous place with little to no guarantees and many traps one can potentially fall into, but that’s actually not true at all. Everyone can choose what kind of investor they want to be and how much risk they’re willing to accept. In this article, we explain how you can become a confident and smart Bitcoin investor in just a few simple steps to give you an early start on your cryptocurrency journey. To read all about it, please click on the link below… Source: Digital Surge – Five Steps to Being a Confident and Smart Bitcoin Investor
Neo-lender Wisr sees increase in banking defectors amid Banking Royal Commission
Neo-lender Wisr (ASX:WZR) has launched a bold new campaign targeting disillusioned customers of big banks, following the Hayne Royal Commission handing down its findings into consumer lending practices. The ‘Australia’s Getting Wisr’ campaign taps into the prevailing sense of unfairness that Australians feel towards the big banks and how customers can make smarter choices when seeking personal loans. The campaign in the coming months will showcase the company’s personal loan, financial wellness programs and new smartphone application. It is the first brand campaign undertaken by Wisr since launching the brand in March 2018 and will appear nationally on television and online from this week. Earlier this week the Hayne Royal […]
More investors taking on smart beta ETFs
Research from VanEck reveals that investors are increasing their allocation towards smart beta ETFs, as opposed to market capitalisation and active strategies. Smart beta cumulative net flows as a percentage of total flows has grown from 11.7 per cent to 21.7 per cent between 2016 and 2018, according to VanEck’s ETF IQ Scorecard for December 2018. “By strategy, smart beta ETFs are gaining in popularity, now accounting for about one-quarter of all inflows at $1.6 billion over the year to date, as investors seek targeted investment outcomes and wealth-building strategies not offered by traditional ETFs, which track market capitalisation indices,” VanEck said. Meanwhile, net flow allocation to active exchange-traded products […]
CBA and Data61 join forces to create ‘smart money’
The Commonwealth Bank and CSIRO’s Data61 have joined forces to create “smart money” using blockchain technology, which has the potential to reduce fraud and revolutionise government programs such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme. In an initial proof-of-concept called Making Money Smart, the organisations have created programmable money by using smart contracts on a private blockchain, allowing conditions to be applied to the way the money is spent. CBA’s head of experimentation and blockchain, Sophie Gilder, told The Australian Financial Review the NDIS was a logical scheme to apply smart money to because of the number of rules, the scale and the lack of transparency and manual reconciliation that takes […]
Australian Fintech companies do it again in this year’s Anthill Magazine Smart100 2018
Once again the Australian Fintech industry has been well represented in this year’s Anthill Magazine Smart100 2018. Congratulations to the all the Australian Fintech companies who made the Smart100 list for 2018: Trade Ledger Practice Ignition eBroker Link4 For the full list of Anthill Magazine Smart100 2018 winners, please check them out here.
