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COVID-19 has rewritten life in immeasurable ways, including the way we view and use cash. The use of digital payments has skyrocketed in the past months, driven by fear of virus transmission via cash. Analysis from Commonwealth Bank has found that digital ... More

Customer insights and behaviour management are the new battlegrounds in today's wealth services space, a new report from Investment Trends finds. Today's established financial services incumbents - namely the big four banks - and a raft of fintech ... More

Living paycheck to paycheck can be painful, forcing you to take out a payday loan charging high fees. Several new instant pay apps offer a way out of this bind, allowing you to withdraw your earned wages on demand. But are these apps too good to be ... More

Westpac's foray into digital banking stepped up a gear this week, with the announcement of a digital-only platform. The move is seen as an attempt to coax younger customers away from the new wave of neo banks. "We're preparing for our digital ... More

More than a third of Australians (35%) struggle with money management and 41% of us are not prepared to handle a large, unexpected expense, says the Commonwealth Bank. But there's at least $10 billion in free money that we're not accessing ... More

EML Payments is a structural growth company with multiple growth drivers and identifiable near-term positive share price catalysts - a clear standout at the most recent results season (40% FY19 EBITDA growth, solid earnings beat, market forecasts upgraded). ... More

Last updated December 22, 2019 The way we bank is changing. Less than one in four of us set foot inside a bank branch in the last six months. Instead, a Roy Morgan survey found almost half of us use online banking. The real groundswell of change however ... More

1. What is a robo adviser? By Greg Einfeld, co-founder and chief financial planner of Plenty Wealth A robo adviser (also called a digital adviser) provides automated, instantaneous financial advice based on a set of rules. It is typically the same as ... More

He may not be as famous as Warren Buffett, but he is known as the richest man in Japan. Ranked number 43 on the World's Billionaires 2019, Masayoshi Son is estimated to have a net worth of $US22.9 billion. Son is the founder and current CEO of SoftBank ... More

Brad Krauskopf measures his success by bumping into people. Not physically walking into them but rather how many he sees and speaks to as he walks around his rapidly growing business empire. In order to be big in his chosen field, Krauskopf needs to ... More