Australian Financial Services stories
The new suite gives Australian investors local share benchmarks with franking-credit variants, widening Bloomberg's index business beyond fixed income.
Clearer rules and institutional flows are making digital assets easier for Australians to trade, particularly younger investors seeking diversification.
Access to a regulated Australian-dollar token widens as OKX Australia adds AUDM, targeting faster payments and settlement for users.
Australians have lost AUD $837.7 million to investment scams this year, prompting a 90% rise in ASIC website takedowns.
The approval puts Coinbase ahead of looming rules and opens the door for retail crypto derivatives in Australia.
Colonial First State shifts finance and HR to Oracle cloud to streamline operations and boost data-driven decisions on AUD $181 billion assets.
Australian banks and insurers are shelling out up to AUD $2,200 a day for specialist contractors to drive critical digital transformation work.
Super fund Hostplus has inked a five-year IT managed services deal with Interactive, adding an Australian-based service desk and cloud support.
Lendi Group taps MongoDB to rebuild data platform and go fully AI-native by 2026, targeting faster rollout of mortgage and property services.
Openmarkets adds two non-executive directors and a new CFO to bolster governance and growth plans ahead of its proposed Nasdaq listing.
Revolut passes 1m Australian customers and vows nearly AUD $400m investment, stepping up its challenge to local digital banking rivals.
YouTrip teams up with Agoda to offer Australians 7% off selected hotel bookings plus an AUD $10 bonus for new card sign-ups.
Australia's banks face rising AI-driven scams, making robust human identity verification and phishing-resistant MFA critical to security.
Wisr adds secured motorbike loans via brokers, targeting growing demand for flexible vehicle finance ahead of Australia's summer riding season.
Ripple seeks to secure an Australian Financial Services Licence via BC Payments deal, aiming to scale regulated cross‑border payments in APAC.
LemFi wins AUSTRAC approval to launch remittances in Australia, targeting a USD $38.2 billion outbound market serving migrant communities.
Remara picks 10x Banking's cloud-native core to speed new lending and investment products and fuel ANZ and Southeast Asia expansion.
Insurance brokers must scrutinise software vendors' SOC 2 Type 2 security to safeguard client data, compliance and operational resilience.
Outsized rolls out pre-built independent consulting squads for ANZ banks, targeting AUD $200,000-AUD $2 million transformation projects.
Singapore fintech Aspire wins key licences in Australia, Europe and the US, paving the way for a global rollout of its business finance platform.