Tagged: australia

August 4, 2020 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia based DayTek Capital, a company focused on establishing a digital bank, has reportedly been awarded a financial services license by regulators in the country. Headquartered in Queensland, the new digital bank, called Infinity, has joined several other Australian banking challengers, which include Xinja Bank,… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm SendGold, which describes itself as a Gold-as-a-Service (GaaS) platform, reports an 819% increase in transaction volume and a 311% growth in transaction size since January 2020. Established in 2016, SendGold is a peer to peer (P2P) digital money platform focused on serving the… Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm EML Payment Ltd (ASX: EML) aims to significantly reduce plastic consumption by the weight of 56 elephants, 10 humpback whales, 1,250 lions, and the height of 5,000 giraffes across the company’s global portfolio within the next three years. EML’s “Change for Good” Initiative… Read More

July 31, 2020 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender Prospa (ASX: PGL), a Fintech serving Australian and New Zealand SMEs, has released FY20 unaudited results. Simultaneously, Prospa has announced that it has set aside an additional $20 million provision for credit losses, largely due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Prospa notes that… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

X15 Ventures, a Fintech firm owned by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has introduced an app for SMEs that helps them with launching their operations. There’s also a cash incentive being offered to firms that will use the app to start their business. The… Read More

July 28, 2020 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rebecca Schot-Guppy, the CEO at Fintech Australia, a member-driven organization that’s focused on supporting the financial technology ecosystem in the country, has argued that the success of Fintech outliers such as Afterpay and Airwallex during the COVID-19 outbreak should serve as a reminder that the… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 10:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australian Digital bank 86 400 has signed a strategic partnership with Australian Finance Group Ltd  (AFG), to expand its home loan broker distribution network, according to a company release. 86 400 states that with AFG on board, one in three mortgage brokers in Australia now… Read More

July 23, 2020 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Birchal, the top investment crowdfunding platform in Australia, has published a report updating on progress being made in Australia regarding “crowd sourced funding” (CSF) as it is called in Australia. According to Birchal, since the commencement of Australia’s CSF industry in 2018, over 80 Australian… Read More

July 21, 2020 @ 10:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Xinja Bank, an Australia-based neobank, announced on Tuesday plans to launch a U.S. share platform for Australian investors, Dabble. According to Xinja, Dabble will sit alongside the neobank’s bank account and savings account Stash. It will provide quick and easy access to US shares, many… Read More

July 20, 2020 @ 9:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Banking platform provider Mambu has announced that Australian business bank Tyro has selected Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform to deliver its first term deposit product. Mambu reports that this is the first Australian deposit-taking institution (ADI) to incorporate its platform. According to a release, Mambu’s platform… Read More

July 14, 2020 @ 7:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Virtual banking service provider Backbase is planning to establish two new offices in order to meet growing demand for its products in Australia, where digital banking platforms are expected to expand rapidly in the coming years. Backbase will be offering greater proximity and expertise in… Read More

July 13, 2020 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian neobank UBank, a leading digital challenger, has reportedly reduced its home loan rate to its historical low. UBank’s management noted that they’ve made a 0.10% to 0.15% per annum out-of-cycle reduction to the bank’s variable home loan rates. New property owner and occupier home… Read More

July 9, 2020 @ 8:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian neobank 86 400 has reportedly moved to its next phase of growth only a year after being awarded a banking license. The digital bank says that it will be focusing on helping its customers with new ways to earn more money from their savings…. Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

InstaReM, a payments Fintech that is part of Nium, has launched BizPay in Australia. The service is designed to assist SMEs by converting credit cards into working capital. The announcement comes soon after the same product launched in Singapore in June. InstaReM believes that SMEs… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based TAGZ, a crypto exchange that claimed to be one of the largest fully-regulated digital currency trading platforms, recently announced that it will be shutting down its operations on July 30, 2020. TAGZ was reportedly a licensed AML/CTF compliant digital asset exchange. As noted on… Read More

July 1, 2020 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DayTek Capital, a company focused on building Australia’s first “product-disruptive” neobank, is the latest firm to join Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program as it prepares for the launch of Infinity, an all-digital banking challenger. By joining the program, DayTek Capital will be able to help… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial services firm Zeller has acquired $6.3 million in capital through a seed funding round led by Australian VC Square Peg Capital. Zeller says that it’s planning to use the funds raised to offer services that plug the existing gaps or shortcomings of the business… Read More

June 27, 2020 @ 12:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Picture Wealth has finalized a A$12 million equity and debt funding round. The wealth management firm is planning to transform Australia’s financial advisory and superannuation sector. Picture Wealth has also acquired financial services licensee NEO Financial Solutions (NFS) for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition,… Read More

June 24, 2020 @ 10:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prospa, an online lender serving Australian SMEs, says it did a clean sweep of the MFAA State Excellence Fintech Lender Award for the third year running. According to the Fintech, the company has received the Fintech Lender Award for QLD at the fifth and final… Read More

June 21, 2020 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Andréa Toucinho, the Director of Studies, Prospective and Training of Partelya Consulting and Country Ambassador for France of European Women Payments Network (EWPN), notes that it’s necessary to develop a European vision or roadmap for adopting Open Banking and Open Finance platforms. She suggests that… Read More