Tag: Jane Hume

Australian FinTech: Worth its weight in gold

Posted on   |  by Jane Hume
One of the most remarkable things about the COVID pandemic is how investors rushed to listed technology equities as panic struck global markets. Whereas gold has traditionally dominated as...

Newfound drives new FinTech market access

Posted on   |  by David McClure
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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  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...
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