Tagged: australia

March 22, 2020 @ 1:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based ZipTel Ltd (ASX: ZIP), a local telecommunications firm that provides international roaming and various calling solutions, has committed to a binding agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Douugh Ltd. Douugh Ltd is a Fintech company that aims to use artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced… Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday (March 19), the Australian Government announced an investment of up to $15 billion to enable smaller lenders to continue supporting Australian consumers and small businesses due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In a statement by The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, Treasurer of Australia, he… Read More

March 17, 2020 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Three major Australian neobanks have slashed their interest rates by 0.25% during the past few days, following the decision taken this month by the nation’s reserve bank to reduce rates. 86 400 was reportedly the first Australian digital bank to reduce the maximum interest rate… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech company, announced on Tuesday it has formed a new partnership with small business platform Zero to help Airwallex’s small-to-medium business (SMB) customers seamlessly reconcile their domestic and international payments. As previously reported, Airwallex was founded in 2015 and is described as… Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 3:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marqeta, a fintech unicorn that claims to be the first global modern card issuing platform, announced on Tuesday it has begun transacting in Australia. The company reported it will also be supporting two of its major global customers, Klarna and Doordash with their own expansions… Read More

March 8, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Aspiring digital bank Hay has selected Mambu to power its platform as a full service neobank. According to a note from Mambu, Hay will its API based core banking platform to provide financial services in Australia. Hay opened up its waitlist for a digital transaction… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Xinja Bank, an Australia-based neobank, announced on Thursday it is hitting the “pause” button of opening new Stash Savings Accounts in order to maintain current rates for existing customers. Xinja reported that Stash is a savings account linked to your Bank Account (transaction account) designed… Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Xinja Bank, an Australia-based neobank, announced on Wednesday it has launched its Series D investment round to attract more sophisticated investors, with a minimum of $20,400 to invest. The banking group, which now holds more than $300 million in deposits already, is looking to raise… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart savers have increasingly been turning to all-digital banking platforms or neobanks. They’ve been depositing their savings into virtual accounts in order to benefit from highly competitive interest rates. According to the latest data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), Judo Bank had been… Read More

February 27, 2020 @ 10:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading SME online lender Prospa Group Limited (ASX:PGL) has published results for the six months ended 31 December 2019 (HY20). According to the Fintech, total loan originations for the 6 month period were $306.8 million, bringing originations for the calendar year (CY19) to $583.0 million,… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based digital bank Xinja has reached the $200 million mark in total customer deposits. The digital bank was launched less than a month back and it has already managed to accumulate the large sum of money via its popular Stash savings account. After only a… Read More

February 24, 2020 @ 10:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australian neobanking group Volt announced on Monday its new partnership global retailer, the Cotton On Group, introduce team members and customers to the Volt experience. Volt claims this is the first partnership of this type between a neobank and major retailer in Australia. Volt also… Read More

February 24, 2020 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based UBank, a digital lending company, has published an open-source software development toolkit on Github repositories in order to assist iOS developers in enhancing the accessibility of applications for users with disabilities. UBank’s new software tool checks for and issues a warning for different types… Read More

February 21, 2020 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital Banking Banking challengers have been introducing innovative financial products in order to compete with traditional banks. Challenger or neobanks attracted $5.2 billion in funding last year, which is more than triple of what they received back in 2018 ($1.6 billion). Italy-based Nexi, a digital… Read More

February 20, 2020 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia-based digital bank Hay is the country’s latest fully app-based account provider to join the nation’s evolving digital banking ecosystem. As noted on the company’s website: “We are an Australian Fintech company that is building world-leading digital infrastructure from the ground up to provide Australians… Read More

February 13, 2020 @ 5:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian government passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Bill 2019 on February 10, 2020. The bill has been introduced in order to extend the overall scope and time period Fintech firms may spend on the country’s current framework. Updating the existing… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 11:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform PledgeMe has announced a new CEO. The platform revealed its intent to select a new Chief Executive in a blog post last September. The platform was founded by Anna Guenther in 2012 and remains the only female-led crowdfunding operating in New Zealand… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 8:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) platform Xero has reportedly made a new technology integration with Square’s software in Australia, in order to allow users to make instant payments of small-business invoices. The new feature will allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Square’s platform to… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stake, an Australian-based commission-free trading app for stocks and ETFs, has officially launched its services in the UK. This news comes just weeks after Stake announced its UK beta operations. As previously reported, Stake claims it democratizes global share markets to bring the “world’s largest… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 1:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia-based marketplace lender SocietyOne announced on Monday it has established a warehouse facility arranged by NAB, alongside securing $15 million through its recent equity raise, to support growth. According to SocietyOne, the warehouse facility is also scalable to support the lender’s continued growth, as borrowers… Read More