07 January 2020
The four-day week discussion will accelerate this year and a number of Kiwi companies are looking to pilot the concept. The initiative was created by Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart at Perpetual Guardian. Evidence shows very clearly how chasing productivity is good for the business. Maybe more importantly, being able to free up time for … Continue reading "InsurTech is creating an evolution – get involved"
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19 December 2019
Well as the year draws to a close it's amazing to look back and see what we have achieved as a collective ecosystem.
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17 December 2019
Twenty years ago we were grappling with Y2K, scratching our heads about a thing called Napster, trialling our first e-commerce purchases and had yet to hear of the iPhone, App stores or Facebook - all still a good 10 years away.
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InsurTech has always actively promoted the importance of market collaboration as a conduit for improving customer outcome. We are not alone in this view and indeed many insurers seek to improve customer outcome also achieving this to a greater – or lesser degree. To be slightly provocative her
October 30, 2019
Fintech is the fastest growing sector of the New Zealand technology industry. With low barriers to entry and being easily scalable it has the potential to be the star player in New Zealand’s future economy. For the sector to thrive we must give it the attention it deserves. Whether exporting
October 30, 2019
New Zealand urgently needs to launch a green fintech industry with government and industry working together to see how fintech can tackle climate change, a leading Kiwi fintech expert says. James Brown, Fintech NZ’s general manager just back from Brexit banking talks in London, says the world
October 16, 2019
The FinTech industry has grown up and grown out. No longer made up of only start-ups, FinTech today is a host of seasoned companies that offer a broad array of financial services and operate on a global stage. FinTechs strives to make financial services more accessible for both consumers and bus
October 14, 2019
New Zealand could soon be on the cusp of open banking, possibly one of the greatest shake-ups in how customers manage their money, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. Brown is already in the UK brokering relationships which will have a lasting impact on opportunities for New Zealand comp
October 1, 2019
Dear readers, How are things? Busy? It just seems to be the default answer these days, I thought technology was going to make life easier not busier. However, we still have to choose what we get involved with and that’s normally a personal decision. So since my last note its been all abo
September 20, 2019
We started Sharesies to create equal opportunities for people to grow their wealth. In the past, people had been priced out, jargoned out and left out of wealth development opportunities. This had resulted in only 18% of Kiwis owning shares (30% in Australia and 50% in the US), with the typical inv
September 19, 2019
Dear Readers I am so glad that we are nearly at the stage where we can clone ourselves, there is so much going on. Still high on the agenda following the recent revamp of the FinTechNZ strategy is engagement with Government and I am really looking forward to the Regulation Lunch that we are h
August 22, 2019
Introducing new services and design that makes interacting with the NZ Government surprisingly good Born out of the All of Government banking tender, the Innovation Fund is a joint programme by the New Zealand Government and Westpac. The Innovation Fund invests in ideas that support government a
August 21, 2019