Australian FinTech launches jobs platform Australian FinTech Jobs
If you didn’t see the news earlier in the week, Australian FinTech has just launched Australian FinTech Jobs – Australia’s first and only employment website dedicated to the FinTech industry. Australian FinTech Jobs is a marketplace site aimed at FinTech companies (from start-ups to ASX-listed companies) and recruitment companies looking for good quality staff. On the other side, there are university graduates and jobseekers looking to start their FinTech careers or move on up into a new role. Australian FinTech have built up quite a community in the past two and a half years, with traffic now exceeding 13,000 unique users per month. The aim now is to drive a […]
TruePillars secures $5m in Series A capital raise
TruePillars, the online marketplace lender allowing everyday Australians to fund loans to small businesses, today announced it has raised a total of $5 million in a Series A funding round. The funding round was led by a long-term Melbourne-based private investor, and includes both equity and commitments by shareholders to fund loans to Australian businesses on the TruePillars platform. Further commitments from additional investors are expected to be finalised by 30 September. The business will now commence a recruitment drive to more than double its number of employees over the next 12 months. “This investment will give us the means to further innovate and build on our service, including our […]
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 […]
Blockchain Explained: What you need to know
As emerging technologies continue to revolutionise the way we live and transact, concepts like ‘cryptocurrency’ and ‘blockchain’ are becoming increasingly relevant to our collective financial future. Major banks are already talking about and beginning to use blockchain, a technology that could drive the digital transactions of the future. And it’s become a major buzzword in financial circles around the world for its potential to change the exchange of value as we currently know it. While the technology itself is in the very early stages of existence and is complicated to understand, businesses and entrepreneurs around the globe are looking at ways to effectively use it in the belief that blockchain […]
H2 Ventures hosts fourth annual Sydney Fintech Expo to support aspiring start-ups
H2 Ventures together with the ASX and Investec Australia, will today host the fourth annual H2 Ventures Expo. Fintech industry leaders and investors will join H2 Ventures, one of Australia’s leading fintech investment firms, at its annual Fintech Expo which aims to bring together a collective of early stage venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and thought leaders to promote growth and continue to drive change in the financial series industry in Australia. The Expo features a panel discussion with industry leaders, discussing the state of the Ecosytem. The panel includes Elaine Stead of Blue Sky Funds, Katherine McConnell of Brighte and Wyatt Roy of Afiniti, moderated by Cathy Kovacs from […]
Ignition Wealth launches low cost high compliance SMSF appropriateness tool
CEO Mark Fordree today announced the launch of the Ignition Wealth SMSF Appropriateness tool, a software technology solution automating the administration of the SMSF appropriateness process. “This is a client-centric solution that ensures that investors considering establishing an SMSF are engaged, educated and empowered. It offers a low-cost easy to use solution.”. Mark Fordree, CEO, Ignition Wealth. Ignition Wealth sets the benchmark in Australia as a business to business digital financial advice solutions provider. This technology solution has been designed to allow advisers, accountants and financial enterprises to reduce the time and cost of the SMSF Appropriateness process. “Our clients are seeking smart technology solutions to drive […]
Stockspot founder Chris Brycki’s money is on robo-advice
Chris Brycki is the man behind Stockspot, one of Australia’s first companies to offer what has come to be known as “robo-advice”. Stockspot recently made headlines after Graham Tuckwell, the Australian tycoon behind London-based ETF Securities became an investor. Brycki first came to the market’s attention in 1999 when as a schoolboy he became one of the youngest winners of a stock competition. How does robo-advice actually work and how is it different to seeing a regular adviser? The most important thing when investing is getting your asset allocation right. Not so much picking stocks or when you should be getting in or out of the market. Working out what […]
FinTech Interviews: Uno Home Loans
In the second of Matthew Parker’s series interviewing FinTech CEOs, he sat down with Vincent Turner, the CEO of Uno Home Loans. Matthew Parker: There have been a few new Mortgage brokering businesses launch over the past 2 years, why is this happening now? What has created the right circumstance for this to occur? Vincent Turner: Good question… One of the drivers is that it’s one of the last transactions left to do digitally. People are now more comfortable applying for financial products online such as credit cards and loans, not just researching and comparing. As people become more comfortable transacting online with their holidays or flights or clothes, they […]
