Technology

'Ask what progress is being made. Then keep asking'

25 Mar 19, 11:35am

Bernstein's Michael Parker says NZ's funds management sector should use a 'slow and dour' minority investor tool to pressure Facebook & Google after Christchurch terrorist attacks
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Reality that’s more than virtual

20 Mar 19, 10:27am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson of Mauldin Economics details a new technology that initially appears to be mere entertainment, but he believes will have significant economic effects
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Labour market trends: What we know

9 Mar 19, 10:02am

Guest

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The Productivity Commission's Tim Maddock and Terry Genet analyse NZ's labour market ahead of an inquiry into technological disruption and the future of work
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Banks pen standards for how open banking will operate

4 Mar 19, 12:14pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Payments NZ releases standards detailing how banks and fintechs that engage in open banking have to protect consumers' data
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Kiwibank shareholders kiss and make up

22 Feb 19, 11:08am

Gareth Vaughan

CEO Steve Jurkovich says Kiwibank has selected a new technology partner and has 'a truck load to do in the next six months'
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This time really is different

21 Feb 19, 10:44am

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As the current business cycle nears its inevitable end, investors should not lose sight of the unprecedented technological, political, and liquidity risks that will make the next cycle uniquely perilous
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Trade power goes with military power

16 Feb 19, 9:16am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson of Mauldin Economics says the assumption that the US has the military upper hand on China is just that - an assumption - and no one really knows if it is true, though some of the signs aren’t good
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This week's guest Top 5

15 Feb 19, 10:00am

Siah Hwee Ang

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Siah Hwee Ang on the latest happenings surrounding China, including the inevitable slowdown, a call for more investments and imports, keeping multinationals on their toes, the new e-commerce law and the new tech ambitions
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This week's guest Top 10

21 Dec 18, 10:05am

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Matthew Bartlett and Geoffrey Roberts of Citizen AI look at the geopolitics of AI, China's digital dystopia in the making, the transport and energy transformation, building digitally inclusive communities and more
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Unlocking Open Banking

18 Dec 18, 9:46am

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KPMG's James Dowle says if Open Banking is to take off, more needs to be done to quell fears from customers about data security, while banks and other providers need to really demonstrate the true value and benefits
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Faafoi: If tech companies take from banks, they need to give too

15 Dec 18, 9:31am

Jenée Tibshraeny

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Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi says reciprocity key to preventing open banking from seeing the big four tech companies gazump banks
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What Trump doesn’t understand about business could fill a truck

30 Nov 18, 9:33am

David Cay Johnston

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DCReport's David Cay Johnston says US President Donald Trump's reaction to GM layoffs shows he doesn’t get automakers, technology or his own new tax law
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We are no better than Trump

29 Nov 18, 8:55am

Peter Dunne

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Peter Dunne says it seems that where China is concerned, New Zealand has become very reluctant to say a word out of place, presumably for fear of the economic consequences
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Cigna on track to become first insurer to offer robo-advice

22 Nov 18, 2:49pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

Cigna follows Kiwi Wealth and Nikko Asset Management in getting FMA clearance to provide digital personalised advice
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ASB follows BNZ and Co-op Bank and launches bank account by selfie app

21 Nov 18, 12:49pm

Jenée Tibshraeny

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ASB, like BNZ and The Co-operative Bank, adopts facial recognition technology to enable new customers to apply for a bank account in 15 minutes without entering a branch
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This week's guest Top 10

16 Nov 18, 10:18am

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Motu researchers on the history of wellbeing, robot ethics, whether the left or right hand should pay tax, the 1918 flu epidemic, prestige and value for money, the effect of cash transfers, protecting large carnivores, and the expansion of the culture war
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Technology, tariffs, and peak globalisation

14 Nov 18, 11:06am

Patrick Watson

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Patrick Watson suggests future historians will say the 2008–2009 crisis marked 'peak globalization' and we're now heading down the other side of the mountain
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This week's Top 10

9 Nov 18, 10:00am

Gareth Vaughan

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Gareth Vaughan on Francis Fukuyama & identity politics, Silicon Valley & the radicalisation of the world, Corbyn the Trotskyite, Goldman Sachs cops a kicking, Bolsonaro & the Amazon & more
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Energy, the root of all wealth. Part 2; Looking forward

9 Oct 18, 10:39am

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Murray Grimwood, aka interest.co.nz commentator Power Down Kiwi, says NZ needs a strategic plan with all-party political support to achieve energy resilience
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