Privacy entrepreneurs Mark and Caroline Carver have joined fast-growing specialist consulting business, Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure.
The Carvers will provide privacy consulting and training services to Mosaic clients as demand for personal data security rises in the increasingly digitised financial sector.
Mark Jephson, ex Perpetual Guardian chief, has joined Auckland-based specialist firm, Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure, as partner.
Mosaic founding partner, Myles Allan, said Jephson – who led Perpetual Guardian for almost two years ending August 2020 – would “add a complementary layer of expertise” to the consulting business…
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Specialist consulting firm, Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure, has named Jigs Jamnadas in the newly created position of chief operating officer (COO).
Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure named Catherine Fletcher as partner in February – the fifth to earn the ranking in the fast-growing Auckland specialist consultancy firm.
Fletcher comes to Mosaic following an almost 11-year career at ASB where she was most recently general manager payments, operational support and service.
RegTech, digital transformation and the move to the cloud accelerate, financial services businesses will need guidance from independent sector specialists like Mosaic to help them make the most appropriate choices.
Even before the global economy went viral this March, the Reserve Bank of NZ (RBNZ) was softening up the market for negative interest rates – or at least the idea of it.
Despite the ever-present threat of pandemics, and a few trial runs (SARS, MERS and Ebola, for example), he said many BCPs focused on a disaster recovery event where the entire business shifted to a new site, instead of the prolonged work-from-home scenario playing out now.
Mike Stobbs: Mosaic partner. Specialist consulting firm, Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure, has doubled its partner ranks in under a month with a second new appointment in February.
Stechman left Tower in 2008 following an 18-year career with the seminal NZ investment business, now part of Fisher Funds. He was also a trustee of the National Provident Fund and panel member for Financial Services Complaints Limited (FSCL).
For example, the IRD would be required to start accruing interest on member and employer KiwiSaver contributions from the exact time of payment until funds reach the end-scheme destination.
There was a danger FSLAA could be lost in the compliance mix, Allan said. “But FSLAA will fundamentally alter the way you do business across the organisation, It’s a substantial change management project.” he said.
But as front-end suppliers and advisers brace for the onslaught of FSLAB and regulatory review reforms due this year, other back-end services are also due for a revamp, according to DLA Piper Wellington principal, Alasdair McBeth.
Auckland-headquartered financial technology consulting and implementation firm, Mosaic, has added half a dozen staff over the last few months as the digital transformation trend sweeps over the NZ industry.
Myles Allan, founding partner of the firm officially known as Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure, said businesses across the sector were under pressure to update their technology… READ MORE
Morningstar sounds death knell for single-use robos
Resistance wasn’t futile: the first wave of disruptive robo-advisers has failed to breach the status quo, a recent Morningstar analysis has confirmed. Myles Allan, founder of Auckland-based consultancy firm Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure, said the Morningstar research “aligns with what we’re seeing in the market”. READ MORE
Would you take money advice from a computer?
NZ Herald – 6 Jan, 2018 Kiwis are set to start getting financial “robo-advice” this year — a move tipped to help those on lower incomes but which some are warning comes with risks… READ MORE
Advice for robots: new white paper fills in blanks for NZ industry
Early next year the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) stands ready to welcome the first generation of fully-personalised (but potentially dehumanised) financial advice robots to NZ shores… READ MORE
The Mosaic ‘Bot or Not?’ white paper
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Industry tech redesign puts Mosaic in the picture
Specialist NZ consultancy firm, Mosaic Financial Services Infrastructure, has doubled turnover over the previous 12 months as the industry looks to install technological upgrades across the value chain… READ MORE