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Newfound drives new FinTech market access

Financial communications surveillance and a bank-linked ethical spending app were among the FinTech pitches from around the world at the recent Newfound Market Mission to Australia event. The inaugural...

FinTech, data rights and a Newfound mission

8 September 2020 | by David McClure

Australia’s consumer data right legislation doesn’t just exist to open up the banking sector, it’s for making the product matching and switching process much easier in an increasingly wide...

No-one’s playing in the sandbox

14 January 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government will look to pass legislation improving the regulatory sandbox as a “matter of priority” when Parliament resumes next month after it was revealed that only seven...

Meet Australia’s FinTech minister

29 May 2019 | by Denham Sadler

Victorian senator Jane Hume has become sworn in as Australia’s first assistant minister for financial technology within Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s second ministry. Mr Morrison announced his new team...

R&D tax senate report delayed

27 November 2018 | by Denham Sadler

The senate committee report on the contentious Research and Development Tax Incentive changes has been delayed and won’t be handed down for another three months. The Economics Legislation Committee...

Bipartisan group for blockchain

8 August 2017 | by James Riley

Labor and Coalition parliamentarians have banded together to throw support behind a measures aiming to support the burgeoning bitcoin and blockchain sectors in Australia. The Parliamentary Friends of Blockchain...

Melbourne’s plan to get smart

20 March 2017 | by James Riley

Smart cities initiatives in Melbourne mark a shift from top-down governance to citizen-centric policy-making, according to Liberal Senator for Victoria Jane Hume. Speaking at InnovationAus.com’s Intelligent Communities event in...