Tag: Fintech

FinTech adoption at a tipping point

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australian FinTech companies have reached a collective tipping point and are on the verge of enjoying mainstream adoption, a new report has found. The EY FinTech Adoption Index 2017...

Reform data or banks are doomed

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Tyro Payments executive director Jost Stollmann arrived in this country with his family by accident in 2004 and it is our good fortune that he did. Mr Stollmann is a...

Kean spruiks new RegTech plans

Posted on   |  by David McClure
RegTech and its best mate FinTech are on the boil in Australia, and NSW wants to maintain the lion’s share of these money-tech businesses, according to the state’s Innovation...

ASIC’s Indonesia FinTech play

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s corporate regulator has inked a FinTech partnership with its counterpart in Indonesia in a “terrific validation” for the work of the local sector. The Australian Securities and Investment...

Morrison wants to let the data flow

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Treasurer Scott Morrison has thrown the substantial weight of his office behind draft Productivity Commission recommendations that would give consumers more control over data held by banks and...

Dave Sharma: Our man in Tel Aviv

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma is in the country for a couple weeks, in part to drum up business for Austrade’s new startup ‘Landing Pad’ in Tel Aviv....

FinTech is the new mainstream

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Just over half the world’s banking customers now interacting directly with FinTech companies, according to a new report from consultancy Capgemini. The figure is a little lower in Australia,...

Blockchain patents – the new black

Posted on   |  by Chris Baxter
What’s the big story in software patent applications in 2016? Does it by any chance involve a tamper-proof, virtual decentralised verification ledger? In other words, does it use blockchain?...

ASEAN is a prize for Aussie tech

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
One of Asia’s largest banks, HSBC, is the latest group to have belled the cat on the often sleepy Australian business community’s appreciation of the vast opportunities in Southeast...