Tagged: australia

October 27, 2022 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Upside, a Web3 focused Investment Decentralized Autonomous Organisation (DAO), announced it has raised $5 million in capital “to deploy in support of the best Web3 startups, with a focus on Australia.” To that end, Upside DAO is also “announcing the first recipients of its investment… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL firm Zip Co (ASX: ZIP) announced the availability of Zip Card, issued by WebBank, the newest buy now, pay later product “offered through its portfolio.” As consumers look for BNPL options in brick-and-mortar retail, the Zip Card “extends the ‘Pay-in-4*’ functionality offline in a… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new academy focused on tackling financial crime will be formed under a partnership agreement between Griffith University and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Building on CBA’s existing capability to combat financial crime and Griffith University’s considerable expertise in business and accounting structures, criminology… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NAB has launched tap on phone payment technology “for small businesses in a first for a major Australian bank.” The NAB Easy Tap app is described as “an innovative solution that allows small businesses to accept contactless payments when customers tap their card1 or phone… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has placed an interim stop order blocking Holon Investments Australia Limited from offering or distributing three funds to retail investors due to “non-compliant target market determinations (TMDs).” The order is for 21 days unless it is revoked. ASIC expects… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 10:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Airwallex has raised an additional USD $100 million at a valuation of USD $5.5 billion, the same as its previous round. The “Series E extension” raising money from existing investors, Square Peg, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital China, Lone Pine Capital, Hermitage Capital, 1835i Ventures and… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank’s venture-scaling arm, x15ventures, has announced a $250,000 investment in Paytron, “after the full-suite workflows and spend management platform won this year’s Xccelerate program.” Paytron was founded by Jaco Veldsman and Francois Henrion “to transform business spend, with integrated workflows to control every transaction.”… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 9:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The government in Australia has noted that it would be issuing a formal response to a report advising banking institutions in the country of their duty to keep offering banking services to Fintechs, virtual currency trading platforms as well as remittance service providers. This, after… Read More

September 14, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has become the “first” major Australian bank to enable PayTo payments for CBA customers – a new digital way “to authorize payments from a CBA bank account, and the latest initiative from New Payments Platform Australia (NPPA).” As part of the PayTo… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech providing aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, announced today its partnership with Swoop Funding, the one-stop money shop “for businesses in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the UK.” Through the partnership, Swoop Funding will be “augmenting its current data collection… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

oneZero, which claims to be a global leader in multi-asset enterprise trading technology solutions, announced that Australian headquartered Invast Global has selected oneZero for their core trading technology needs “across their global institutional business replacing several incumbent systems.” As a multi-asset provider of prime services,… Read More

September 4, 2022 @ 11:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian businesses have “ambitious” plans for international expansion, as new data from global fintech Airwallex reveals more than two thirds of small-to-medium Aussie businesses (69 per cent) plan “to be operating outside Australia by 2027.” Airwallex’s inaugural Australian Business Growth Index found “a third of… Read More

September 4, 2022 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Australia, the fiat-to-crypto platform for trading cryptocurrencies in Australian Dollars(AUD), announced the appointment of Leigh Travers, former DigitalX CEO and Director, as Chief Executive Officer. Travers has spent the last seven years “playing a pivotal role in building products and growing networks for DigitalX… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 7:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australian Wealthtech Super Fierce has topped $116 million in “anticipated super fees saved” for its users after launching 5 months ago, according to a note from the company. Super Fierce is a wealth advice platform and social platform that aims to help women close the… Read More

August 24, 2022 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hello Clever, an Australia-based ‘Buy-to-Earn’ company that gives consumers real-time cashback, has secured A$4.5 million via seed funding round. The investment round has been led by Vectr Fintech Partners along with contributions from CrossFund, Yolo Investments, Magnivia Ventures, Son Tech Ventures, Boson Ventures and several… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 9:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Australian government has announced that work is “underway on crypto asset reforms” as it aims to regulate digital assets better. In a statement by the Treasury, jointly delivered by the Honorable Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer and the Honorable Dr. Andrew Leigh MP,  Assistant Minister… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 9:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has posted its Corporate Plan, which seeks to chart its course over the next four years. As one may anticipate, it is heavy on tech-related items, including crypto or digital assets. Joseph Longo, Chair of ASIC, states in… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) announced that Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has gone live with retail banking services on Temenos Banking Cloud “for customers served under the BOQ and Virgin Money brands.” Work has commenced on “the migration of BOQ’s ME brand to Temenos Banking Cloud.” Using… Read More

August 20, 2022 @ 7:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based Fintech firm Cape revealed that it has appointed Prospa’s former Head of Growth, Ben Lyons, as their new chief revenue officer (CRO). At Prospa, a banking-solution focused Fintech company, Lyons had helped with establishing their partner distribution strategy and expanded the firm’s online and… Read More

August 20, 2022 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sezzle Inc. (ASX: SZL), a key player in the Pay in 4 industry, announced the launch of a new “direct integration” with Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a customer platform that “helps over 100,000 paying users maximize revenue, increase repeat sales, and improve retention with personalized emails… Read More