Tagged: australia

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

June 19, 2020 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Robocash Group, a multinational financial group that offers consumer alternative lending and marketplace funding in European and Asian markets, has reportedly initiated a pre-IPO funding round to help finance the planned launch of its digital bank in the Philippines. Founded in 2013 in Russia… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 9:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prepara is the next aspiring digital bank to throw their hat in the Fintech ring. Not yet a regulated bank or authorized deposit-taking institution, Parpera is in the process of securing the necessary licences it requires for its products and services in Australia. In advance… Read More

June 12, 2020 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Australia is reportedly planning to extend one of its Fintech agreements with the UK. The agreement is designed to help Fintech firms in each country by making it easier for them to acquire operational licenses. Both jurisdictions also aim to increase cooperation and collaboration… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Featurespace, an established provider of Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software, confirmed that Australia’s Fintech Hay has chosen its ARIC Risk Hub to help identify and prevent potentially fraudulent financial activities and money laundering on its mobile-first solution. Hay builds digital infrastructure from the ground up… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech company, recently announced it has launched a new payment acceptance service in Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore with WeChat Pay. The company reported that the service is allowing merchants to add WeChat Pay as an additional payment option on the e-commerce… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 10:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prospa (ASX: PGL), an online lender serving Australian and New Zealand SMEs, has reported March quarter performance with $122.8 million of total loan originations, up 21.5% on the prior corresponding period, and $37.4 million of revenue – a 13% increase versus the same period the… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Nium, a Singapore based Fintech platform, has become a Visa issuer in Australia due to its partnership in Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program. In a release, Nium explained that it will be able to provide end-to-end issuing, processing, and onboarding services, and shorten the lead… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 7:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic Capital Group, a company focused on offering investment banking services to the registered investment advisors (RIAs), asset and wealth management communities, will reportedly make a strategic investment in Creativemass, a US and Australia based financial services software firm. Creativemass provides wealth management solutions via… Read More

June 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Ross McEwan, a New Zealand banker and the CEO and MD at National Australia Bank (NAB), recently argued that, in his opinion and assessment, “permanent” change has “just been made in 10 weeks” in consumer behavior and their preference towards using digital banking platforms…. Read More

June 1, 2020 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has been focused on developing the Australian digital identity system, so that locals can access essential government services in a simple and secure manner. The new digital identity platform will allow individuals and Australian companies to verify their identities through… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Jon Deane, CEO at InfiniGold,  a company focused on the digitization of physical commodities, recently explained how gold-backed stablecoins can be used to track the spot price of the gold bullion. InfiniGold leverages patented technologies and works with commodity partners to support the wider… Read More