Author: Australian FinTech

Australian FinTech company profile #5 – SavR
Apr
12

Australian FinTech company profile #5 – SavR

Company Name: SavR Website: www.savr.online Key Staff & Titles: Tim O'Shea - CEO, Costas Aletrari - CTO, Kevin Lacey - COO Location(s): Brisbane, Australia and Kansas City, USA In one sentence, what does your fintech do?: An Automated savings App to help people Plan, Savr FOR and Save ON their next Vacation How / why did you start your fintech company?: My career in the Finance industry has centred around helping people improve their lives by better managing their money. Our app was originally designed to help people reduce debt faster, but our users constantly requested help with saving for a Vacation. With all the other financial noise most people […]
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Buy now, pay later apps turn focus to business owners
Apr
12

Buy now, pay later apps turn focus to business owners

'Buy now, pay later' platforms have changed life for shoppers and now small businesses will be courted with the same model. "What we're seeing now is businesses getting really crunched around payment terms...it's like there's a freeze or a jolt in the system," Cloudfloat founder Aleem Habibullah says. Cloudfloat is preparing to soft launch its fintech product at the end of the month. The startup will pay business invoices directly and then small businesses will pay it back in instalments over periods up to 90 days. As the push for shorter payment times intensifies, Habibullah says some companies are struggling to keep up. Just as models like Afterpay let eager […]
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The Bitcoin Times – Officially Launched
Apr
12

The Bitcoin Times – Officially Launched

The Bitcoin Times was created to cut through all the bulls#*% you may have read or heard about Bitcoin…(there’s lots of it). It’s not about “blockchain”, nor is it about “crypto”. It’s about what matters. It’s dedicated to Bitcoin, as a concept, as a monetary phenomenon & as a new form of global, digital collaboration that is fair and robust in nature. The Bitcoin times is a distillation of a broadly complex concept into something digestible, so that more people know what the real innovation in this space is. Only publishing 2 of these per year. It’s 100% free and created by the team at Amber to help spread the right narrative.
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From devolution to revolution: re-bundling the banks
Apr
12

From devolution to revolution: re-bundling the banks

Glenn Hodgeman, owner of the AltFi Australasia Summit, suggests that re-bundling and white labelling may be the future of lending in Australia. As Bill Gates once famously stated, “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten”. But given the current state of banking in a post-Hayne world, I personally suspect the next two years in financial services will be specifically characterised by rapid change. Traditional lenders are now facing more than just pressure from the growing wave of alternative and non-bank lenders: they are also now staring down the barrel of a regulator with […]
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Champion lender Jacaranda Finance sets a new pace for the fintech industry
Apr
12

Champion lender Jacaranda Finance sets a new pace for the fintech industry

Milton based lender Jacaranda Finance has been named the Champion of Financial Services at the Australian Small Business Champion Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Saturday the 6th of April. Held at Sydney’s The Star Casino, with over 1,100 guests in attendance, Jacaranda was publically recognised as a champion small business, and an up and coming financial services provider. With over 2,000 outstanding applicants all round, an award like this is no easy feat. ‘We definitely did not expect to win!’ says Daniel Wessels, CEO of Jacaranda Finance. “The competition was fierce and all of the applicants should be extremely proud to have been nominated,” he continued. ‘With over 4,000 […]
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Australian FinTech company profile #4 – Gobbill
Apr
11

Australian FinTech company profile #4 – Gobbill

1. Company Name: Gobbill 2. Website: www.Gobbill.com 3. Key Staff: Shendon Ewans (CEO & Co-founder), Quentin Marsh (CTO & Co-founder) 4. Location(s): Melbourne based, Australian company. 5. In one sentence, what does your fintech do?: Automate bill payments by extracting invoice details, checking for fraud and paying using card or bank accounts.  6. How / why did you start your fintech company?: The co-founders were in a pub talking about the idea after missing some bills. We wanted to make our life admin easier, then Gobbill was used by our families and friends. It grew from there. 7. What the best thing your company has achieved or learnt along the way (this can […]

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ASX-listed fintech Peppermint launches ‘Bizmoto Delivers’ micro-business pilot program in the Philippines
Apr
10

ASX-listed fintech Peppermint launches ‘Bizmoto Delivers’ micro-business pilot program in the Philippines

Peppermint Innovation Ltd (ASX: PIL) advises that a pilot of its Bizmoto Delivers micro-business program has commenced in the Philippines. The program officially started in the province of Cavite last week (Friday, 5th April), with the first 15 BizmoGo riders accredited to build their own micro business using Peppermint’s Bizmoto technology platform combined with a motorcycle that allows them to provide services to the people of the Philippines via a mobile phone app. The Bizmoto Delivers pilot program will also roll out in Novaliches, Bulacan and Pangasinan over the coming few weeks – with approximately 60 BizmoGo riders expected to be engaged in the Bizmoto Delivers trial. The pilot program […]

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BGL releases Simple Fund 360 integration with Australian Money Market
Apr
10

BGL releases Simple Fund 360 integration with Australian Money Market

BGL Corporate Solutions, Australia’s leading supplier of SMSF administration and ASIC corporate compliance solutions, is proud to announce that Simple Fund 360 now has an integration with Australian Money Market, a secure online term deposit & cash investment platform. “We’re thrilled to have Australian Money Market as part of BGL’s Ecosystem”, says Ron Lesh, BGL’s Managing Director. “Australian Money Market Pty Ltd (AMM) is an online Term Deposit platform which allows you to compare and choose Term Deposit interest rates from more than 25 Australian financial institutions. AMM streamlines the administration of investing in term deposits online, saving you time and reducing admin costs. With AMM you can see all […]

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