Octet forms alliance with Mastercard to give businesses a better way to pay
Octet Finance, the Australian company revolutionising the supply chain finance industry for small and medium businesses, has formed an alliance with Mastercard to enable businesses to pay global suppliers safely, securely and quickly. The alliance will enable Mastercard’s members to offer their B2B clients the ability to make cross-border supplier payments using their existing Mastercard debit and credit cards. Octet users will benefit from the integration of Mastercard’s cutting edge payment offerings, such as the Mastercard Payment Gateway Services (MPGS) and the configurable Virtual Card Number (VCN) feature, on the Octet platform. Octet Finance is the supply chain technology platform that enables payments to be made through the secure Mastercard […]
Former MFAA CEO joins HashChing
A finance and logistics executive and former MFAA chief executive officer has joined the advisory board of mortgage marketplace and home loan deal gateway HashChing. Siobhan Hayden, who resigned as chief executive of the MFAA in June this year, has joined the advisory board of online home loans trader HashChing. It’s the third top executive the emerging fintech has secured in recent weeks. Financial services regulatory lawyer Claire Wivell Plater and financial service senior executive Helen Lorigan also joined the fintech’s advisory board recently. Ms Hayden commented that HashChing has the potential to significantly change the home loan market in Australia. “HashChing sits at the intersection of customers, brokers and lenders — […]
ASIC enters fintech partnership with Singapore
ASIC has signed an Innovation Functions Co-operation Agreement with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) aimed at “helping innovative businesses in Singapore and Australia in their foray to the respective markets”. The agreement will enable fintech businesses in Australia and Singapore to “establish initial discussions in each other’s market faster and receive advice on required licences, thus helping to reduce regulatory uncertainty and time to market”, a statement by ASIC said. To qualify for the support offered under the agreement, businesses need to meet the eligibility criteria of their ‘home’ regulator, the statement said. “Once referred by the regulator, and ahead of applying for a licence to operate in the […]
Australian FinTech partners with Kikka Capital
Australian FinTech is here to benefit FinTech companies in Australia and it’s the perfect platform to promote your company, brand awareness and your amazing products and services. To assist on the finance side of your business, Australian FinTech has partnered with Kikka Capital. Kikka Capital provide business loans as small as $1,000 up to $100,000 and there’s no accountants, tax returns or anything formal required to apply. They can fund any business as long as there’s cashflow. Kikka uses an advanced underwriting platform meaning not only will Kikka be able to assist any type of business the application takes just 7 minutes to complete! In addition, as a line of […]
MINT PAYMENTS PRESS RELEASE
MINT PAYMENTS SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH AWARD WINNING TRAVEL AGENCY SOFTWARE SOLUTION PROVIDER PROCESSING $4 BILLION IN TRAVEL SPEND Sydney, 1 February 2016: Payments processing technology provider, Mint Payments (ASX: MNW) (Mint or the Company) has partnered with multi award winning travel agency software solution provider Tramada Systems (Tramada), signing a three year licence and distribution agreement to deliver its fully integrated online payments processing service “Minternet”. Through the use of Minternet’s Application Programming Interface (API) software, Tramada has developed an integrated credit card module (tramada® Payment Gateway) that will be offered to all of its customers as a core product offering within Tramada’s suite of travel agency software solutions. Mint […]
FinTech’s approach to Payments
Payments Advances in the way we carry out payments represents the birthplace of FinTech. From the first credit card transactions carried out by Diners in the 1950’s there has been progression in the way we make payments. This means that the landscape for payments is a varied mix of new and old as well as large incumbents and tiny startups. It is also a hotbed of acquisitions and mergers. New approaches to payments are wide spread and have been the focus of banks and credit card companies for a long time. We have come a long way from the carbon copy credit card ‘machines’ some might remember from the early […]
Pin Payments
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