Till Payments win Australia’s coveted Good Design Award for Design Excellence
Till Payments received a prestigious Good Design Award Winner Accolade in the Product Design category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation.
Map My Plan takes out top award at EY Financial Well-Being PitchFest
Paul Feeney, Founder of Map My Plan, has been named as the winner of the EY Financial Well-Being PitchFest for his innovative FinTech solution.
Trade Ledger wins place in inaugural Hong Kong-UK FinTech Bridge Program
The world’s first open banking business lending platform, Trade Ledger, has won a place in the inaugural Hong Kong-UK FinTech Bridge Program.
Earlytrade attracts $6 million investment to solve late payments
Earlytrade, an Australian fintech pioneering early payment of invoices from large corporates to their suppliers, announce the newly formed venture fund Shearwater Growth Equity has become shareholders in the business.
Start-up heads up a crypto currency new wave of business
Among the best and brightest have showcased in Noosa the future of block chain technologies that make crypto currency trading possible and the potential impacts of the technologies over the upcoming decade. The inaugural Crypto Coast Convention #CCCnoosa saw more than 100 delegates brainstorm the Peregian Beach Digital Hub, Peppers Noosa Resort and the Innovation Centre at Sippy Downs. Guest of the opening discussion panel was made up of Queensland Chief Entrepreneur and founder of Everledger, Leanne Kemp, CEO of Civic Ledger Katrina Donaghy, MP Sandy Bolton MP, Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington, co-founder of Crypto Coast Convention Taylor Tran and Jon Allison from Modern Assets. Mr Tran said the Sunshine […]
Priviti is a finalist in Westpac’s Innovation Challenge as Australia prepares for data privacy legislation
Selected as one of five finalists, Priviti’s patented consent management solution gives users greater control over how their data is shared and mitigates companies’ compliance and reputational risk amid growing data privacy concerns. Australian bank Westpac has announced that Priviti is one of five finalists for its 2018 Innovation Challenge, an initiative that gives startups the opportunity to pitch their ideas to help businesses meet their regulatory obligations and drive game-changing enhancements to customer experience. As Australia prepares for Open Banking standards and the Consumer Data Right, this year’s Challenge features RegTech solutions addressing topical issues including responding to regulatory change, ensuring customer privacy and consent, and product management. The […]
Sibos 2018 – The Rise of FinTech
FinTech comes of age in Australia at Sibos 2018. As Sibos 2018 comes to a close and the worlds biggest players in banking head home the event can be considered a huge success, especially for FinTech. Sibos is the worlds premiere financial services event and what an event it is. 7000 banking and financial services professionals from across the globe gathered. With Money 20;20 taking place in Vegas at the same time the turn out was incredible. Australian FinTech partnered with Tier One People to cover the four day event. A dedicated Fintech exhibition, The Discovery Zone drew huge crowds. Innotribe, presented the worlds foremost experts on Blockchain, AI, Quanrum Computing and […]
Women in senior leadership given the nod of approval
Award-winning Nod confirms its next major hire on their executive team will be a woman. Nod developed a patent pending algorithm that utilises AI to create real-time Statement of Advice for Financial Advisors and Accountants and today confirms they have appointed Kathryn Sforcina, an accomplished serial entrepreneur in her own right, as Head of Growth. Kathryn will bring the number of women on the Senior Leadership team up to 50% making Nod one of the few technology companies in Australia, if not the world, to have such a high representation of women in a senior leadership capacity. Joel Robbie, CEO, says the decision to actively seek true parity within their […]
