SelfWealth, winners of Software Innovation at the Australian Business Awards second year running
SelfWealth Ltd has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner in The Australian Business Awards 2017 for Software Innovation. The Awards, now in their twelfth year, are an annual all-encompassing awards program which recognises organisations that demonstrate the core values of business innovation, product innovation, technological achievement and employee engagement via a set of comprehensive award categories. The award recognises SelfWealth’s achievements in the research and development of SelfWealth Premium and SelfWealth TRADING. SelfWealth is a community of investors partnering to achieve one common goal – greater returns. We allow members to crowd source investment information; by tracking the moves of top investors our members can make more informed investment decisions […]
Locked out of property market? Five better places for Millennials to put money
By Clayton Howes – CEO of MoneyMe Life sucks for an aspiring property owner right now. You probably already know that the average price of a house in Australia ($656,800) is several (eight) times that of the average full-time yearly income ($78,832). You’ve probably already heard that in the past five years alone, wages have grown significantly slower (13 per cent) than house prices (41 per cent), especially if that house is in Sydney (70 per cent). It’s enough to make you want to drown your sorrows in the most expensive smashed avo and latte combo available! But honestly – enough, already. If you’re as bored as I am of […]
A Bitcoin for your thoughts?
By Naomi Christopher, Midwinter Financial Services, Senior Manager – Brand Those of us in the tech world can all agree that Bitcoin is genuinely starting to take off or at least cause a stir…. If by take-off you mean clamber $672 bucks one day and slide down $384 the next. But while some of us look on with wide eyed enthusiasm as the price of it continues to climb and fall and then climb and fall (but mostly climb at the moment!), much of the rest of the world continues to scratch their heads as they grapple to understand “what’s it all about?” And of course, whether it is in […]
Sniip to deliver real-time billing
Mobile shopping and payments app Sniip says it has landed a deal with Xero to bring real-time billing to small and medium sized businesses. Sniip co-founder and CEO Damien Vasta said his platform, which uses blockchain technology, would provide a central way for Xero’s customers to receive and pay bills. He said Sniip would be available to Xero’s customer network, allowing transactions to integrate with their accounting system. “Users can scan and pay their bills within seconds using Sniip’s trademarked circular QR code, eliminating the need to enter a long account or payment reference number or bank details or waste time paying over the phone,” Mr Vasta said. “Mobile payments […]
Asia’s leading Fintech Accelerator in Australia
Supercharger is Asia’s leading no equity Fintech Accelerator with programs in HK & Malaysia. They are currently looking for the best FinTech companies that are interested in expanding or scaling in the Asian market. To give you a sense, companies of a previous cohort have closed 12 contracts, raised USD700,000, and generated another 28 business leads within 12 weeks. Please feel free to explore the program on Supercharger website. They’re looking forward to your application which can be lodged here by 18th August 2017 and as for their track record, you can check it out here. The Fintech Accelerator have prepared some key answers that may help your team to review your scale of success in […]
Bitcoin cash is already the 3rd largest cryptocurrency
Bitcoin cash has already secured its place as a top cryptocurrency, just a day after it entered the marketplace. According to Coinmarketcap.com, the cryptocurrency is trading at about $US490 per coin and its marketcap now stands above $US8 billion. As such, it is the third largest cryptocurrency by marketcap, surpassing big name coins such as Ripple ($US6.7 billion) and Litecoin ($US2.2 billion). Bitcoin cash came to fruition Tuesday after it split from the original network that powers its crypto-cousin, bitcoin. To recap, the split was preceded by a years-long war between power brokers in the bitcoin space over the rules that guide the digital currency’s network. Supporters of the newly […]
Sydney is challenging Singapore as the region’s fintech startup hub
The number of fintech startups in Australia has increased to 579 companies from less than 100 in 2014, according to a study by KPMG launched today. Australian fintech investment is strong with $US675 million invested across 25 deals in 2016 despite an overall global decline in investment in the sector. And about 60% of fintech companies are based in Sydney, which has been the major recipient of fintech venture capital investment at $US171 million between 2014 and 2016. The report, Scaling the Fintech Opportunity: For Sydney and Australia, has been produced by KPMG for the think tank, Committee for Sydney. The report finds, based on interviews with the Australian fintech […]
IRESS launches XPLAN iAssist
IRESS has launched XPLAN iAssist to further strengthen support available to XPLAN users. XPLAN iAssist will allow users to grant an IRESS support team member temporary and secure access to their individual XPLAN session within a few seconds. Users needing the service will be able to securely-generate a unique token within XPLAN, which won’t require the exchange of any username and password details. IRESS product executive, Emily Chen, said iAssist allows IRESS to rapidly respond in real-time in a transparent, secure and efficient way, without the limitations and frustrations of screen-sharing software installations. “iAssist balances our desire to further improve user experience, help clients and users continue to increase business […]
