
- CSC’s Erica Salinas discusses how digital options are making headway into replacing cash, but still have a long way to go.
- The most basic financial need is a safe place to store and maintain value. While there are age-old ways to do this, mobile technology is unexpectedly (but not surprisingly) meeting this need.
- Westpac, one of Australia’s Big 4 banks, reports 1 million customers (15 percent) regularly conduct transactions with smartphones.
- Australia is a first-world nation, yet 30 percent of adults don't have access to financial products and, thus, qualify for microfinancing.
- Telematics and collision-avoidance technologies mean safer cars and lower payouts and premiums. But who’s responsible when something goes wrong?
- Connected globally by technology, consumers are reshaping financial services through four megatrends: mobile, micro, media and mining.
