Tagged: airwallex

May 1, 2024 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, the Australia-founded leading financial platform for modern businesses,  announced the launch of Airwallex for Startups, Australia’s comprehensive program for local startups seeking to accelerate their growth. The initiative – which includes practical resources, networking and content opportunities, exclusive product offers “from Airwallex and others… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced the U.S. launch of its payment acceptance solution. U.S.-based merchants can use the service “to accept payments from domestic and international customers.” Additionally, foreign merchants with U.S. entities can “provide a localized payment… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced its partnership with Bird (formerly MessageBird), a global communication platform, to power Bird’s international payments operations. Powering Bird’s global payments infrastructure Bird’s platform, applications and APIs help 29,000+ businesses “to streamline conversations and… Read More

April 11, 2024 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, introduced the Airwallex Borderless Visa Card in Canada. The virtual card is issued by Peoples Trust Company, “part of Peoples Group, and enables Canadian businesses to easily make payments around the world, everywhere Visa is… Read More

March 2, 2024 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, announced the expansion of its global leadership team, with three new hires based out of the company’s Americas headquarters in San Francisco. Jason Gottlieb joins “as VP, Financial Partnerships, Hugo Buret as Global Head of… Read More

January 16, 2024 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australians spent nearly AUD$200 more through the latest peak sales season in 2023 compared with 2022, according to the latest Digital Economy Index from global financial platform Airwallex. The Airwallex Digital Economy Index reportedly “records year-to-date spending per adult, as well as quarter-by-quarter snapshots of… Read More

January 8, 2024 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech Airwallex has reportedly announced the appointment of Nadav Tamam in order to spearhead its enterprise business focused on Israel and the Middle East region. As reported by news outlets focused on Israel, Tamam has prior experience working at firms like Google as well… Read More

December 8, 2023 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex shared data on the impact of a new generative AI tool that enhances the speed and efficacy of its “Know your Customer” (KYC) and onboarding processes. The new tool reduces ‘false positives’ by 50 percent “on average, while boosting the number of customers that… Read More

November 9, 2023 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following a “strong” year of growth, global fintech platform Airwallex has recently  announced business highlights in Singapore. In the first half of 2023, Airwallex Singapore “saw 13x growth (1213%) in year-on-year revenue and more than 11x growth (1015%) in total transaction volume as businesses in… Read More

November 6, 2023 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Businesses can earn returns on their US-dollar balances without opening an overseas bank account with a new Australian-first account from global financial platform Airwallex. Airwallex’s Yield also “offers Australian businesses more than double the big banks’ returns on AUD funds, all without minimum lock up… Read More

October 25, 2023 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, announced a new global survey that revealed surging demand for cloud-based financial services “with more than 80 per cent of SMBs looking to switch away from traditional banks for their payment needs.” The report, jointly… Read More

October 20, 2023 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MexPago, a Mexico-based payment service provider and an Institution of Electronic Payment Funds (IFPE) license-holder. The transaction is subject “to regulatory approvals and customary closing… Read More

October 15, 2023 @ 6:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, announced its partnership with Alpaca, a developer-first API brokerage platform, to support Alpaca’s global payments and foreign exchange (FX) needs. The announcement comes on the heels of several recent Airwallex wins “in the wealthtech category,… Read More

October 5, 2023 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A spending downturn in the retail and e-commerce sector drove a $2.9 billion YoY nation-wide drop in online spending, according to the Q3 Digital Economy Index from global financial platform Airwallex. The quarterly Airwallex Digital Economy Index “records year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter snapshots of the digital… Read More

September 1, 2023 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced its partnership with Public, a U.S.-based multi-asset investing platform, to minimise conversion costs for UK investors when purchasing U.S.-based equities on the Public app. The news comes on the heels of Public’s entry… Read More

August 2, 2023 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the world, has signed up Airwallex to streamline the investing process.  The Airwallex service was actually integrated several months back, with more than a third of OurCrowd’s funding going through Airwallex, typically completed in under 24… Read More

July 27, 2023 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global financial platform Airwallex has delivered “a 115 percent increase in revenue across Australia and New Zealand YoY.” The progress comes as Airwallex “delivers global revenue growth of 120 percent YoY and global transaction volume growth of 77 percent YoY.” The revenue and transaction volume… Read More

July 20, 2023 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced a partnership with Brex, a U.S.-based financial technology company, to support its global expansion. Airwallex continues to “assemble a rapidly growing ecosystem of customers and partners, validating its position as a catalyzing force… Read More

July 15, 2023 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australians are spending on average nearly $600 less online than they were a year ago, according to the latest Digital Economy Index from global financial platform Airwallex. The Airwallex Quarterly Digital Economy Index “records year-to-date spending per adult, as well as quarter-by-quarter snapshots of the… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian-born payments company Airwallex has appointed Luke Latham as General Manager for its Australia and New Zealand business. Latham joins Airwallex following senior roles “with Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Groupon and most recently as Chief Operating Officer for MILKRUN.” Airwallex CEO and Co-founder Jack Zhang… Read More