Stone & Chalk fintech hub denies bias | The Australian
Fintech is a passionate community. Even the optimists, though, give Australia two to four years, at most, to establish its credentials as a regional leader in disruptive financial services technology, closing the gap with Singapore and Hong Kong. The potential upside is significant. Source: Stone & Chalk fintech hub denies bias | The Australian
Stone & Chalk names resident start-ups | afr.com
Congratulations to Stone & Chalk opening their doors last night. Well done and all the very best to all the great minds that are going to be working there and putting Australian FinTech companies on the world stage! The Google-backed, Silicon Valley-based fintech start-up Ripple Labs, which is developing new payments transfer technology, is among a group of 41 start-ups that have joined Stone & Chalk, the fintech hub in Sydney that was officially opened on Tuesday night. Source: Stone & Chalk names resident start-ups | afr.com
Doors open on fintech hub | The Courier-Mail
Sydney is certainly leading the way for Australian fintech companies and start-ups to make it big here in Australia, and overseas… The doors have opened on a new hub dedicated to helping tech start-ups disrupt Australia’s financial sector. The shared work space, called Stone & Chalk, soft-launched on Monday as a centre to support more than 200 entrepreneurs. Source: Doors open on fintech hub | The Courier-Mail
Fintech hub Stone & Chalk names Alex Scandurra as CEO with big plans to disrupt banking
New Sydney fintech hub Stone & Chalk has appointed former army captain Alex Scandurra as its chief executive, as the location for start-ups seeking to disrupt banking prepares to open in June.About 330 entrepreneurs from 120 fintech start-ups have registered to work in the space, ensuring Stone & Chalk will open at full capacity of about 150 people and suggesting it could take up an option to double its area by expanding into a second floor at 45 Clarence Street at the northern end of the Sydney CBD. Clarence Street is shaping up as the heart of the promising fintech scene in Australia, with payments disrupter Tyro earlier this month […]
Tyro says Stone and Chalk needs competition
Tyro chief Jost Stollman, says another fintech hub, independent of bank-backed Stone and Chalk, is needed to ensure new bank rivals don’t remain “rounding errors”.Mr Stollman has dubbed Sydney’s Clarence Street “Fintech Alley” since he opened Tyro’s FinTechHub at 155 on Wednesday, just down the way from bank-backed hub Stone and Chalk at number 45 – the same building as eBay and its subsidiary PayPal.Tyro was one of the first payments challengers to the banks when it started a decade ago, but it remains the only so-called card acquirer – meaning it processes card payments for merchants as well as rolling out its own terminals – that is not a […]
Craig Dunn to chair fintech hub Stone and Chalk
Technology start-ups will be given subsidised office space by the banks they are seeking to disrupt, with a new financial technology hub to open in Sydney in May. It will provide entrepreneurs with a place to collaborate with established financial sector players and global technology giants and allowing them to access capital for growth. Source: Craig Dunn to chair fintech hub Stone and Chalk
