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Oct
22

What You Really Need To Know About Working In Fintech

This is a great article to read if you’re thinking of working for or an Australian FinTech company From the outside, the tech industry can look like a homogenous sector, populated either by entrepreneurial whiz kids or bearded computer ‘geeks’. However, as with most industries, once you get beneath the surface, it becomes clear that the people who inhabit the tech industry are a varied bunch, utilising different skill sets and working in sub-sectors that have little in common. One of these sub-sectors, financial technology (or fintech), is attracting a range of talent, particularly workers who, in the past, may have been attracted to investment funds, law firms, or accountancy […]

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Jul
14

FinTech Currency Technology

Currency Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrency and Digital Wallets make up the largest aspects of the FinTech revolution in Currency. Foreign Exchange This is one area that as a consumer you can almost feel the banks taking advantage of you. Whether it’s the currency conversion fees that are added to the ‘pedestrian’ exchange rate they give you or the additional fees a bank charges for you to access your own cash. The introduction of digital wallets, cryptocurrency and new approaches to foreign exchange and payments all form part of the FinTech currency movement. By introducing the ability for you to trade currency with a traveller looking to come to Australia when you’re […]

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About FinTech

About FinTech The global events that occurred in the mid 2000's provided the perfect storm for this emerging industry. The GFC meant that experienced people lost their jobs, there was declining costs involved for startups and an increasing number of new graduates with no industries to enter, meant the talent that usually advanced the banks' dominance were encouraged to build their own businesses. The enormous success of early entrants such as PayPal and Square has had a profound effect on the industry with smart people the world over making products that focus on the user not the “middleman” (bank/incumbent). As more and more people are discovering FinTech they are realising […]
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