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Fintechs drive venture capital: KPMG

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... has led to investor and funding support to Zip who recently acquired QuadPay and China's Tencent buying shares in Afterpay. KPMG's global fintech co-leader Ian Pollari said: "COVID-19 will be a key driver for fintech investment heading into H2'20 ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... officer Wayne Baskin, the platform's backers include the likes of Zip Co founder and chief executive Larry Diamond, Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar, and Zip Co chair Philip Crutchfield. According to LinkedIn, the trading platform currently employs ...

State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... to expand. Since the March 23 low, the ASX All Technology Index, which features the likes of buy-now-pay-later darling Afterpay, accounting software provider Xero and AI specialist Appen, has rallied more than 95%. The index which tracks healthcare companies ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... first three quarters of the financial year saw some reversal in the last quarter," Mercer said. "While growth stocks like Afterpay and Appen continued to outperform, previous laggards in the energy sector (such as Santos and Origin Energy) also staged ...

COVID-19 brings trading boom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... said the data was proving investors are happy to act contrarian, taking sizeable positions in companies like Qantas and Afterpay despite the multi-year lows their stock had sunk to. "There's often a perception that retail investors are naive and run ...

Investment scams pry $126m from Aussie hands

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... more than 78,000 scams. Scammers used bank payments, peer-to-peer payments, payment apps and gateways, fintechs such as Afterpay and ZipPay, digital wallets, gift cards and cryptocurrencies to steal money from their targets. "Ten years ago, most investment ...

Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... who have suffered from COVID-19 restrictions, like Qantas, Ramsay Health Care, Sonic Healthcare, Transurban, Seek, and Afterpay will rebound, Xiradis said. "The question is not if they will bounce back, but simply, when?" He said. Other sectors will ...

Chinese tech giant buys 5% stake in Afterpay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
A Chinese tech giant has bought a 5% stake in buy-now-pay-later provider Afterpay, after paying approximately $416 million for more than 13 million shares in the company. Tencent is an online entertainment, digital advertising, social media, fintech ...

Financial services boards overpaid: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... capitalisation of all the firms within the ASX100, Connolly said the report reveals shareholders in firms such as Magellan and Afterpay are getting good value. However, when it comes to diversified financials, the story is a little bleaker, with the ...

Buy now but can they pay later?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
Afterpay has been the latest stock to take a significant hit in the current environment as investors are concerned those who buy now may not be able to pay later. The company finished 33% lower in yesterday's session, wiping around $1.5 billion ...