June
Housing woes collide with climate change and could hit every household
Like housing construction, the insurance industry is at the point where both the corporate and consumer sides are screaming for help.
Australia’s growing ranks of uninsured has Mulino worried
The Financial Review Insurance Forum examined how risk-based pricing by insurance companies has created social equity problems.
Australia must overcome these challenges to meet its net zero targets
A massively complex and expensive task is ahead for Australia to decarbonise its power supply and infrastructure. To start, it will take a lot of building.
May
New research reveals business value is driving real-time transition
There’s almost universal awareness of the requirement to transition to real-time payments, new research reveals.
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Real-time payments’ early adopters reap rewards
With so many competing priorities and limited resources, banks are taking a measured approach to implementing instant payments tech.
Race to real-time payments: big business ditches legacy systems
Two-thirds of big businesses say real-time payments will affect their market position. A new survey shows who’s moving now, and who risks getting left behind.
How banks can fight fraud in an instant-payments world
Security needs to be ironclad as faster transactions mean less time to detect and stop illicit flows by cybercriminals.
Banks help businesses gain early-mover payments advantage
Lenders are embedding new technologies as regulators breathe down their necks and customers demand instant payments.
Cbus joins pilot program to speed up super payments
The fund has been part of the trial with a handful of large construction industry employers to get a clearer picture of how digital payments will work.
AI can spot threats before they happen
Australian organisations are drawing on improved technologies to alert them about when and how they need to act.
Responsibility for cybersecurity shifts from IT desk to boardrooms
Consumers, shareholders and regulators are increasingly demanding companies take proactive steps to anticipate, mitigate and recover from system failures.
How this company succeeds despite the inevitability of ‘failures’
Online travel agency Webjet OTA is building resilience into its operations from the outset.
Third-party risks are no longer someone else’s fault
In this hyper-connected world it’s important to remember that ensuring the protection of data along the supply chain is essential.
Cultural resilience key to dealing with crisis
Massive digital disruptions have driven home the need for training and systems to ensure businesses – and all their staff – can instantly respond to outages.
March
Bank innovations a slow and steady process
The big four know they must respond to the rapid changes introduced by start-ups, but modernising respected financial institutions is a tall order.
AI agents the new frontier in digital banking
The new wave of digitisation is overhauling digital banks, but experts warn that differentiation will be increasingly difficult to achieve.
AI squeezes the juice from data to stop scams
The technology can find patterns with greater accuracy and identify potential fraudulent transactions faster than any human.
Robotic decision-making throws up new risk amid privacy reforms
Increasing use of “agentic AI” means banks must tread carefully to comply with regulations covering personal information.
Banks brace for AI-powered digital revolution
The sector must confront the twin challenges of dealing with their legacy systems and developing a tech-savvy workforce.
Global private credit funds set to storm Australia
The attraction of this rapidly rising sector to investors of all sizes is the promise of security and consistently high returns.