Gobbill inks deal with iSignthis for card processing and eKYC
Australian Securities Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX:ISX/FRA:TA8), the world leading RegTech for identity verification and payment services, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with an artificial intelligence (AI) fintech bill payment automation startup called Gobbill™. iSignthis is supporting innovative companies like Gobbill by providing global identity verification and payment solutions. The partnership with iSignthis supports Gobbill’s international expansion plans utilising their identity verification services and transactional banking facilities to clear payments. “Partnering with iSignthis is a strategic and important milestone for Gobbill. It enables our customers to pay any bill for billers that do not accept card payments or various card […]
The 3rd Annual FinTech Awards 2018 launched – Call For Entries
The 3rd Annual Australian FinTech Awards 2018 are officially open, with Founder, Glen Frost, calling for Australian fintechs to submit their entries for the 2018 awards. According to Frost, The 3rd Annual FinTech Awards 2018 will “Celebrate the achievements of the dynamic people and businesses in the Australian fintech sector. These Awards recognize success in the FinTech sector in its many forms – and every year we see greater success, and more people attending!” “The FinTech Awards brings together the influential, disruptive, collaborative and innovative technology companies that are redefining financial services – this is a very exciting time to be in fintech,” said Frost. “Now it’s its third year, […]
Verrency boosts commercial offering signing ten strategic Fintech partners
Australian global payments provider Verrency has signed ten strategic FinTech partners in just six weeks as it continues to gain global traction. Founded in 2016, Verrency enables banks to cost-effectively deliver the latest value-added payment capabilities and curated FinTech services – via V+, their FinTech marketplace – to their customers without replacing or heavily modifying their existing payments infrastructure. As part of the recently signed partnership agreements, Verrency enables these signed partners to easily distribute their services to global financial institutions via Verrency’s API platform. Some of Verrency’s newly signed FinTech partners include: UK-based ComplyAdvantage, which provides real-time screening and monitoring technology powered by artificial intelligence to help companies comply […]
GetCapital announces new partnership with FAST
Leading aggregator Finance & Systems Technology (FAST) has announced the appointment of specialist small business finance provider GetCapital to its lending panel. Founded in 2000, FAST is one of the largest and most established aggregators in Australia, supporting more than 1,300 brokers to arrange over $21 billion in residential and commercial lending for customers annually. Brendan Wright, CEO of FAST, said this latest appointment reinforced the aggregator’s commitment to continually supporting FAST brokers to meet their business clients’ needs. “This announcement is very much aligned with FAST’s strategy to support brokers to cater to SME clients. Business and commercial finance have long been hallmarks of FAST’s unique value proposition, with […]
$817M Later: LexisNexis partners with first institutional cryptocurrency exchange
Risk management giant LexisNexis Risk Solutions is now working with the first cryptocurrency exchange to use technology acquired in an $817 million deal earlier this year. The partnership to verify the identities of Melbourne-based Blockbid’s customers also marks the first time LexisNexis has combined its existing database of high-risk individuals with 1.4 billion unique identities brought to the company from ThreatMetrix, which was acquired in a cash deal announced in February. While Blockbid plans to use the two pools of identity data to gather information about its customers during the onboarding process, LexisNexis senior vice president Thomas Brown positions the newly combined products as part of a larger push within the […]
How AI is becoming an asset to the finance industry
As AI transforms an increasing number of domains, players in the finance industry are moving fast to keep pace. While many people are aware of the term artificial intelligence (AI), this is largely in relation to the more extreme use-cases of AI such as flying cars and Sophia the AI robot. Yet, much of our contact of AI – and our understanding of it – revolves around products that affect our everyday lives as consumers. An example of this is within the finance industry. Many key players are leveraging the power of AI to improve their services. Here are three ways AI is disrupting the finance industry: Customer service chatbots […]
FinTech Australia calls for comprehensive credit reporting legislation to progress
FinTech Australia, the peak industry body for the financial services, technology and innovation industry today expressed growing concern that further delays in securing the passage of the comprehensive credit reporting bill would hurt consumers and small businesses. Despite a proposed 1 July 2018 implementation date, the legislation is still in the House of Representatives, with recent reports that lobbying by an unlikely partnership of consumer advocates and the banking industry is encouraging delays and calling for more time. FinTech Australia CEO Brad Kitschke said that Australia had fallen behind other established markets in passing the bill and was surprised that consumer advocates would seek to delay something that would benefit […]
DomaCom acquires $100m lending facility
Property crowdfunding firm DomaCom and a number of private lenders have partnered to provide the DomaCom Fund with an initial lending line of $100 million. In a statement, DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis said the lending facility would allow the company to purchase up to $250 million in property. “We have been seeking a default lending solution for our platform for three years as it is clear that advisers are seeking to use debt to deliver long-term tax effective returns for their clients,” he said. “In addition to the recently announced capacity to being able to crowdfund their own debt, advisers can now simply select the debt level they are […]
