Fortnum Financial Advisers partners with Moneysoft
Moneysoft will provide its digital money management solution to Fortnum Financial Advisers under a new partnership set to boost client engagement and provide greater insights across the advice process. Fortnum will provide the co-branded Moneysoft tool to advisers across its full network, enabling them to empower clients and bolster their financial wellbeing. Fortnum’s Practice Technology Manager, Cassandra Mackay, said Fortnum are excited to provide our Adviser Network with a tool to engage their clients in budgeting and cash flow.” “This is a great opportunity for an adviser to partner with their clients to achieve their financial goals.” Moneysoft Pro and Lite are both cloud-based digital solutions offered by the company, […]
Disruptive big data company Quantexa furthers global expansion
Quantexa, the disruptive big data and analytics company backed by HSBC and Albion Ventures, has furthered its international expansion by opening a new office in Sydney, Australia. This builds upon their accelerated growth this year, which has seen the opening of their Brussels office in April and the doubling in size of their Global Headquarters in London. Following on from their $3.3m fund raising earlier this year, Quantexa’s expansion reflects a growing customer base outside the UK. The Sydney office will put the company in closer proximity to its clients in APAC and forms part of its aggressive international growth plans. Quantexa can already boast an impressive client list that […]
Australian fintechs must set sights on Asia: MoneyMe
Consumer fintech, MoneyMe Financial Group, believes the next surge of global fintech growth will be led by Asian markets after a temporary global plateau, as a result of greater market demand and more underbanked citizens, increasing income levels, advanced tech capabilities, and superior tax structures for innovative businesses. Australian fintechs who don’t include Asia in their growth strategies, both in terms of target markets and location of operations, risk falling behind and missing the next wave of fintech as a result of our far higher corporate tax rates, and the comparatively higher quality of our financial services which drive down the urgency for local innovation. This comes off […]
Super-fast, safe blockchain technology being developed at the University of Sydney
University of Sydney researchers are building a new super-fast, safe blockchain technology that has the potential to revolutionise the global economy. Best known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin and other virtual currencies, blockchain is a digital public ledger where transactions are recorded and confirmed pseudonymously. Named the ‘Red Belly Blockchain’, the new system being developed by the University of Sydney’s School of Information Technologies will allow secure and almost instantaneous digital transfer of virtual currencies across the world. “In recent testing, our blockchain achieved the best performance we have seen so far – with more than 440,000 transactions per second on 100 machines. In comparison, VISA’s network has a […]
Trading to National Stock Exchange available on IRESS
IRESS and the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX) today announced that clients of IRESS will be able to trade securities listed on the NSX through IRESS. The introduction of trading through IRESS builds on the existing market data feed of NSX securities available through IRESS. NSX Managing Director, Ann Bowering, said: “We are delighted to be working with IRESS to provide direct access to trading on the NSX market by leveraging the IRESS network and trading community. “It is essential that NSX provide companies listed on our exchange access to Australia’s broking network, and this has been easily facilitated through IRESS’ network. “In doing so we have given our […]
Australian FinTech Newsletter
As of this week, Australian FinTech will be producing a second newsletter that will commence today and going forward it will be sent out each Saturday morning. 12,000+ unique users visit the Australian FinTech website every month and if you haven’t already subscribed to the Australian FinTech newsletter you’re missing out! So if you’ve missed anything in FinTech in Australia during the week, you can read all about it while relaxing on a Saturday morning or while watching your kids playing sport. With so much happening in the burgeoning Australian FinTech industry, the bi-weekly newsletters – on Tuesday and now Saturday – will cover more of what you need to […]
Double Gold for Tyro at Tech Design Awards
Australia’s leading independent payments provider, Tyro Payments, has taken out a double Gold win for its App at the recent DRIVENxDESIGN 2017 Tech Design Awards for the FinTech and Future of Work categories. The Tyro App offers an integrated solution for small business owners to manage all of their finances – connecting them with their accountants, staff, bookkeepers, employees and other signatories. Other key features include automated batch and payroll payments and the ability to monitor EFTPOS transactions easily. From the App, business owners can also access Tyro Smart Growth Funding to access and organise business loans. Tyro’s Director of Product, Kareem Al-Bassam said Tyro is listening to the needs […]
Winners of the 2nd Annual Australian FinTech Awards 2017
Congratulations to the winners of the 2nd Annual Australian FinTech Awards 2017. The 2nd Annual Australian FinTech Awards celebrate the achievements of the dynamic people and businesses comprising the FinTech sector. These Awards seek to recognise success in the FinTech sector in its many forms. The event was a fantastic evening of celebrating the best innovation, created by the best innovators and entrepreneurs that live and work in Australia. Here are the winners for the 2nd Annual Australian FinTech Awards 2017: FinTech Innovation in payments ZipMoney FinTech Innovation in Wealth Management (Robo-Advice) Pocketbook FinTech Innovation in Lending Tyro Payments Best FinTech Communications Campaign BRICKX Best Research […]
