Lakeba Group CEO Giuseppe Porcelli appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for Mobecom Ltd
Lakeba Group CEO and Founder Giuseppe Porcelli has been appointed by Mobecom Limited (ASX:MBM) as Chief Strategy Officer with immediate effect from 1 February 2019. He will join the Mobecom executive team and be introduced to shareholders in upcoming future meetings. The appointment is a natural evolution of the partnership between Mobecom and Lakeba. Earlier in 2018 Mobecom announced Lakeba as their blockchain developer partner to build the cryptocurrency solution, AirCrypto for airBux, their customer loyalty platform. Following that, at the end of 2018 Lakeba’s Paid By Coins venture was acquired by Mobecom just six months after the business had launched. Giuseppe Porcelli’s appointment comes as part of a wider strategic review Mobecom […]
Peppermint signs MOU with Blockchain platform
Peppermint Innovation Limited (ASX: PIL) announced it has executed a non binding Memorandum of Understanding with Vleppo to explore the delivery of a Blockchain based platform to empower banked and unbanked individuals to source loans secured by digital assets. Peppermint previously provided guidance to the market in its announcement dated 27th November 2017 that it was watching the development of Blockchain capabilities and plans. This MoU is in alignment with this announcement and affirms PIL’s commitment to exploring partnerships with leading edge technology companies operating in the Blockchain space. Peppermint’s Managing Director and CEO Chris Kain said: “As a progressive Fintech company, we are always assessing advances made within the […]
PlayChip digital currency exchange “PlayXchange” registered
The PlayChip Foundation has been registered as the first digital currency exchange in Australia with its own native token. Last week the PlayChip Foundation Ltd was registered to provide Digital Currency Exchange services by Australian regulatory body AUSTRAC. AUSTRAC, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, is Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator and financial intelligence unit. The registration is pursuant to subsection 76E(2) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Act 2017 (AML/CTF Act Amendment Act 2017). The registration signals a huge step forward to the Foundation, which will operate a cryptocurrency exchange called the PlayXchange as part of a global payment solution to its more than […]
Prospa top fintech in 2018 LinkedIn Top Startups List
Prospa has been named 6th on the 2018 LinkedIn Top Startups List, which honours the 25 most sought-after startups to work for in Australia. Prospa is also the highest placing Fintech in the ranking. The LinkedIn Top Startups list is derived from a blended score looking at factors including interest in the company, engagement with employees, job interest and retention, and is informed by the billions of actions taken by more than 575 million professionals on LinkedIn. Now in its sixth year, Prospa has established itself as a leader in the online small business lending space. Prospa has delivered consistent high growth with customer satisfaction highlighted by an NPS score […]
Meet Open Orbit and its nimble problem-solving platform
In every business, there are problems to solve and business processes crying out for improvement. What Open Orbit offers is a unique digital Expertise Automation platform which uses AI techniques to problem solve in a whole new way. Chatting to Niranjan Deodhar, Founder of Open Orbit, Stone & Chalk pick his brains about Open Orbit and the recent win at the Australian Business Awards (ABA) 100 – Winner of Technology and Software categories. Efficiency is obviously Niranjan’s middle name, but where does the name Open Orbit come from? Niranjan says, “Open – because we want to drive collaboration between people who are solving problems. And Orbit which is about looking […]
A fireside chat with Evan Wong, CEO of Australia’s leading Regtech – Checkbox.ai
Evan Wong is CEO and Co-founder of Checkbox. At only 25 he already has two successful startups under his belt. Checkbox is a Regtech solution that enables business people to build software without any sort of coding. Checkbox is to business applications what WordPress is to Web Design. Used by lawyers, accountants and bankers Checkbox is considered the ideal tool to fix the Regulatory and Compliance issues facing many financial institutions. How did you become an Entrepreneur? Evan: I founded my first business when I was 17, an education business called Hero Education. Until that point I’d never shown any signs that I was going to be an entrepreneur. Looking […]
SendGold platform brings real assets to digital currency
SendGold, a Sydney based fintech company with an asset-based peer-to-peer digital money platform, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign to raise $2 million. SendGold is hyper-liquid, hyper-accessible, and based on physical gold, one of history’s most reliable assets. SendGold is an alternative to bank money as it allows its customers to save, invest, gift and pay using gold. The SendGold technology platform is highly scalable and its business model addresses some of the largest markets in the world, including not only gold, but payments, gaming and rewards, targeting Asia’s fast-growing and increasingly wealthy middle class. SendGold CEO and co-founder Jodi Stanton said, “We believe the world’s current money systems are […]
InLoop has made the 2018 AFR Most Innovative Companies List
InLoop Group was honoured to be recognised as one of Australia and New Zealand’s most innovative companies. The prestigious annual list, published by The Australian Financial Review, is based on a rigorous assessment process managed by Australia’s leading innovation consultancy, Inventium, in conjunction with a panel of industry expert judges. InLoop ranked #25 on the overall list, from over 1000 nominated organisations across Australia and New Zealand. The full Top 100 list can be viewed here. The assessment measures a top innovation implemented in the past twelve months. Specifically, the judges look at how valuable the problem is that the innovation is solving, the quality and uniqueness of the solution, […]
