Tax accountant creates software to help everyday Australians pay less tax
A Gold Coast tax accountant is saving Australians time, stress and money at tax time with a new low-cost, easy to use tech software, TaxTank.
ESG fund inflows boom in Australia in 2021
ESG funds were major beneficiaries of Australians’ cash in 2021, according to the last Global Fund Flow Index from Calastone.
Payment start-up DiviPay trumps heavyweights in Finder Innovation Awards 2021
DiviPay has beat out payment industry heavyweights Medipass, RushGold and Wise, named among the most innovative Australian companies in 2021.
Cryptocurrency emerging as hedge against looming inflation
2021 has seen many financial institutions enter the fray, with suggestions that the next-gen asset class may be emerging as a possible inflation hedge.
Tech-savvy workers opt for bitcoin in their pay packets
More employers are climbing on the bitcoin bandwagon as it goes mainstream, offering their workers to take some of their pay in bitcoin.
Crypto friendly metals exchange offers access to precious metal trading pairs
Metex Exchange is a new crypto friendly metals exchange, and they’ve made it easier than ever to trade crypto for precious metals.
2018 AFR Young Rich List: Emily Skye backs Millennial bank start-up
Fitness star and Young Rich Lister Emily Skye may have built a small fortune but that doesn’t mean she’s good with money. “I’ve never really known what’s going on with money, I mean I love to spend it but I’m not able to track it and really be responsible for it,” Ms Skye said. Ms Skye rockets up the 2018 Financial Review Young Rich List with an estimated worth of $36 million, reflecting growth in her online fitness business that attracted an undisclosed investment from Quadrant Private Equity this year. As she continues to build the fitness business, including releasing the first app for her FIT program this year, Ms […]
Fintech needs security baked in from the start
Fintech has been labelled a modern day gold rush fuelled by ambitious entrepreneurs and innovative technologies and consumer demand. KPMG and CB Insights’ “The Pulse of Fintech”report found that global investment in fintech currently sits at $13.8 billion with $4.5bn invested in the Asia-Pacific, across 140 deals. But as the relationship between new technologies, such as bitcoin and blockchain, and financial services deepens, so do the threats posed by increasingly sophisticated hackers. No market is more affected by cybercrime than financial services. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2016 Global Economic Crime Survey found that 48 per cent of financial sector respondents reported to have been affected by cybercrime, compared with 36 per cent across […]
