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Compliance & Regulation
Data Management & Analysis
16th May 2025
In the digital age, protecting personally identifiable information (PII) has emerged as a paramount concern across various sectors, particularly in the wealth management industry.
Wealth advisers, banks and financial institutions hold...
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17th May 2024
Operating a financial planning business has evolved in recent years, and staying connected with your client base is more important than ever. Xplan provides a seamless way to maintain client...
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2nd May 2024
If you excel at providing financial advice but struggle with customising your Xmerge functionality, coding may seem like a completely foreign topic. At Umlaut Solutions, we speak your language and...
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24th April 2024
The financial planning environment is rapidly changing, with financial advisors needing to demonstrate agility at every corner to keep up with regulatory requirements and the evolving client relationship dynamic. But...
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13th December 2023
Operating a financial planning business has evolved in recent years, and staying connected with your client base is more important than ever. Xplan provides a seamless way to maintain client...
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23rd November 2023
Operating a financial planning business has evolved in recent years, and staying connected with your client base is more important than ever. Xplan provides a seamless way to maintain client...
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Data Management & Analysis
Document Management & Storage
24th August 2023
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a mainstay in business for decades now. Over that time, it has revolutionised document capture and information management, saving businesses millions in time, money...
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Data Management & Analysis
Market & Business Infrastructure
15th August 2023
We all know that data is a company’s most valuable asset. But with an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated each day, it is a tough ask for any organisation...
The Wealth Mosaic
Data Management & Analysis
Digital Platforms & Tools
6th March 2023
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a mainstay in business for decades now. Over that time, it has revolutionised document capture and information management, saving businesses millions in time, money,...
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Data Management & Analysis
Digital Platforms & Tools
12th December 2022
AI and machine learning (ML) can undoubtedly help when it comes to interpreting and classifying data, sending it where it needs to go, and identifying exceptions or gaps. It can...
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Data Management & Analysis
Digital Platforms & Tools
25th August 2022
The Australian wealth management industry has some work to do. The Royal Commission 2019 report mandated better compliance and educational standards in Australia. The Australian Government has now also set...
The Wealth Mosaic
25th July 2022
Stemming from the 1930s, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was originally a machine that searched microfilm archives using optical code recognition. It was called a ‘statistical machine’, though IBM later acquired...
The Wealth Mosaic
18th May 2022
Digitization in all its guises has thrown the spotlight onto just how fragmented data sets and processes are. Manual and distinct processes are hard to manage, slow and there is...
The Wealth Mosaic
18th May 2022
Managing document filing and storage is something that can take up a lot of time and resource if not properly managed. And even if filing and storage are correctly managed,...
The Wealth Mosaic
18th May 2022
Machine learning (ML) has become a key weapon in the technological armory for wealth managers. A subset of Artificial Intelligence, (AI), ML is about algorithms that can not only follow...
The Wealth Mosaic
Data Management & Analysis
Digital Platforms & Tools
28th April 2022
Data accuracy has never been so important. Wealth managers need to both extract and input an avalanche of data each and every day. They need to know that it is...
The Wealth Mosaic
Data Management & Analysis
Digital Platforms & Tools
7th March 2022
How is data being used in the wealth management sector today and what benefits are you seeing? Also, what improvements do you expect to see in the future in wealth...
The Wealth Mosaic
Business & Client Risk
Compliance & Regulation
21st February 2022
Greater activity levels within the M&A sphere stem back to the Royal Commission 2019 report. It mandated better compliance and educational standards in Australia. Since then, a significant proportion of...
The Wealth Mosaic
Compliance & Regulation
Data Management & Analysis
21st February 2022
The need to practice good data hygiene is intrinsically a housekeeping issue. If you don’t know what data you hold, or it is in different places in different formats then...
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Compliance & Regulation
Data Management & Analysis
1st June 2020
As a result of the Royal Commission report, FASEA has introduced a Code of Ethics for financial planners that includes extra record-keeping obligations.
However, the chances are you’re already struggling to deal with all...
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Client Communications & Reporting
Client Engagement & Management
1st June 2020
25,000 clients in Australia rate the review service delivered by advisers as the worst-performing area from the perspective of client satisfaction. So it’s safe to say the industry has some work...