FinTech Australia, the voice of the Fintech industry in Australia, has signed up seven new major corporate partners, according to the association.
FinTech Australia states that new “Gold tier “partners include: insurance specialists ii-A, Oracle Australia and global business process management solutions provider WNS.
New ecosystem partners include: business certification and efficiency specialist BSI Group, corporate advisors Latimer Partners, customer experience organisation Probe CX and AI-powered eKYC and AML compliance platform Jumio Corporation.
Rehan D’Almeida, FinTech Australia Head of Strategic Partnerships said the ecosystem program plays an instrumental role in enabling the group to support the Fintech industry.
“This is the biggest burst of growth that it has seen since its inception, and that demonstrates an escalating interest from other companies in Australia’s Fintech sector.”
D’Almeida added that the program is growing while retaining members:
“We welcome ii-A, Oracle Australia, WNS, BSI Group, Latimer Partners, Probe CX, and Jumio Corporation to the program and look forward to working with each company in seeing it gain further insight and connections in one of the fastest growing sectors of Australia’s startup economy.”
Cherie Ryan, VP and Regional Managing Director, ANZ, Oracle, said that Fintech in Australia is “buzzing.”
“Working with financial institutions of all sizes across the globe Oracle Cloud, combined with Oracle Banking Open APIs, provides an ecosystem and platform to help drive innovation, deploying open banking principles and regulation. Joining FinTech Australia enables us to continue our commitment to open collaboration and innovation in banking.”
Polina Kesov, Director, ii-A said they are looking forward to delivering insurance solutions to support FinTech Australia and its members.
“FinTech Australia has been playing an instrumental role in building pathways for industry and government to work together to accelerate growth of the sector,” added Jay Venkateshwaran of WNS.
VP of APAC, Jumio Frederic Ho, stated:
“Jumio’s mission is to protect the online ecosystems of businesses through a unified, end-to-end identity verification, eKYC and AML platform. We’re excited to join FinTech Australia’s ecosystem partnership program to connect and collaborate with the Australia’s fintech community to build a trusted and secure online financial services platform for their customers.”