Today's The Australian Financial Review highlights the RegTech boom and features both Jill Berry from Adatree on the importance of global scale and Lisa Schutz from Verifier on the desire for shorter sales cycles. RTA CEO Deborah Young reiterated the importance of the patient capital needed for the sector. See more.

Article in the AFR today. Minister Jane Hume talked about the transformative nature of the CDR for consumers.

https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/action-initiation-will-empower-customers-to-make-use-of-data-20210320-p57ckk

The CEO of the RegTech Association met with Brian Clark, CEO of Ascent RegTech to discuss the power of RegTech and why its so relevant right now. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ascentregtech_compliance-over-coffee-becoming-fluent-activity-6770784064820531200-3A1z

Australia's leading 30 Voices discuss their world in 2030, including our CEO Deborah Young.  https://home.kpmg/au/en/home/insights/2021/02/30-voices-on-2030-new-reality-financial-services.html

Opinion piece in today's AB+F on the current investment environment for RegTech in Australia. 

https://www.rfigroup.com/australian-banking-and-finance/news/more-investment-buy-needed-regtech-flourish

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Congratulations to Jill and the team from Adatree closing their funding round. This is great news for CDR and for consumers!

https://www.startupdaily.net/2021/01/consumer-data-platform-adatree-raises-1-2-million-seed-round/

The RegTech Association (RTA) announced today the appointment of three new board directors: Alex Ford – VP Product & Marketing, Encompass Corporation, Jo Mikleus – Chief Risk Officer, Latitude Financial Services, and Leica Ison – CEO & Founder, Skyjed. Effective from 1 January 2021, these new appointments add strength and experience to the current Board and will provide industry support as the Association continues to grow substantially since being established in 2017.  Read more. 

Erkan and Deborah traverse many topics including defining RegTech, accelerating adoption, the need for global collaboration, the upcoming trends and who Deborah would most like to have a drink with! Read more

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