Our follow up participants – University of Auckland, Financial Services Council, ANZ, ASB and Milford Asset Management – represent a cross section of KiwiSaver stakeholders (i.e. academia, industry bodies, default
providers and other providers). Each coming from a different perspective, they provide some interesting insights into the evolution of KiwiSaver.

Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions, today announced that it has been positioned as a leader by Gartner, Inc. in its newly published report Magic Quadrant for Oracle Application Management Service Providers, Worldwide, authored by Gilbert van der Heiden, Frances Karamouzis, and Ian Marriott, published on 16 October 2014. This is the third consecutive year that Infosys has been named a Leader in this report.

Consumers around the United States are loading credit and debit cards from Bank of America, Capital One, Citi and Wells Fargo onto their iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus for use with Apple Pay. One of the first questions being asked is, “Where can I use it?” MasterCard has the answer – MasterCard Nearby™.

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global leader in consumer transaction technologies, has opened a new office to accommodate its team of software developers and engineers building the latest in bank branch technology. The 50-person team, previously located in Sandy, Utah, is moving to a new, state-of-the-art location in Draper.

U.S. Bank Corporate Travel and Purchasing card clients can now retrieve account information on the go with the new U.S. Bank Access®Online Mobile app. A complement to Access Online, the bank’s exclusive data-management and reporting tool, the app provides real-time access to essential account information from virtually anywhere. It simplifies account management for the cardholder and reduces the burden on program administrators.

U.S. Bank Corporate Travel and Purchasing card clients can now retrieve account information on the go with the new U.S. Bank Access®Online Mobile app. A complement to Access Online, the bank’s exclusive data-management and reporting tool, the app provides real-time access to essential account information from virtually anywhere. It simplifies account management for the cardholder and reduces the burden on program administrators.

Orbium, the business and IT consulting company focusing exclusively on the financial services industry, announces the opening of four new offices: Frankfurt, Paris, Hong Kong and Manila.

These openings reflect Orbium’s strong organic growth and broad geographical expansion strategy, bringing the total number of employees to over 300 across ten countries and eleven offices including Geneva, London, Luxembourg, Singapore, Sydney, Warsaw and Zurich.

BNY Mellon  Wealth Management has received regulatory approval inHong Kong to launch comprehensive discretionary investment and wealth management services to high net worth individual investors.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management will bring a wide range of solutions-based services including strategic asset allocation, access to world-class investment management services provided by the corporation's robust multi-boutique structure, and active, personalized client discretionary portfolio management.

Lombard Risk Management plc, a leading provider of integrated collateral management, regulatory compliance and reporting solutions for the financial services industry, sponsored the 8th annual collateral management forum, organised by Fleming Europe between 15-17th October in Amsterdam, where around 150 collateral business practitioners gathered to discuss key topical issues: regulation and optimisation included.