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Finnies showcase best in fintech

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... financial technologies. AirWallex won three awards, including Biggest Raise of the Year for its $141 million capital raise. Afterpay took home two awards and was named Fintech Organisation of the Year for the third year in a row. Xinja co-founder Van ...

Fintech no real threat: Researcher

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
... fintechs are gaining traction in unsecured credit, especially with the success of buy-now-pay-later services including Afterpay. These offer an alternative form of consumer finance to bank credit cards. Their success may come down to the fact that although ...

Finnies recognise wealth management disruptors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... Leader of the Year. The Best Partnership of the Year finalists include: Roll-it Super and Moneytree, Brighte and NAB, Afterpay and Up, RateSetter and CEFC and South Australia Government, and Tic:Toc and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. FinTech Australia received ...

HNW advice firm backs AfterPay rival

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
A high-net worth advice and wealth firm has helped raise $30 million for a homegrown AfterPay rival, in a private debt opportunity for its clients. Escala Partners worked with corporate advisory firm Henslow to inject $30 million in debt and equity ...

SMSF darlings revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... were up 80% while Macquarie Group trades rose 31%. SMSF investors also showed a strong interest in technology stocks (AfterPay trades increased 236% by value) but the telecoms industry fell out of favour with the investor class. Telstra trading volumes ...

Social media reacts to SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Attendees of the world's largest banking conference took to social media to share their SIBOS experience. Swift at sibos today: "The benefits of DLT are promising, but delivering it is still years away." There are over 100 financial institutions with ...

Afterpay faces senate inquiry

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
The Labor party will launch a senate inquiry into whether regulation around payday lenders such as Afterpay is adequately protecting low and middle income, and financially stressed Australians. Labor senator Jenny McAllister said yesterday that the ...

Fintech hub snaps up Afterpay co-founder

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
Afterpay co-founder Anthony Eisen will now sit on the board of a fintech innovation board after a raft of board changes were announced yesterday. Stone & Chalk has revamped its board, appointing seven new directors as it moves from a "start-up" to a ...

Platform providers crack S&P/ASX 300

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... That rebalance also brought changes to the S&P/ASX 200. Taking a spot on the index was point-of-service finance company AfterPay Touch, alongside Inghams Group and Appen. The S&P/ASX indices measure the performance of actively-traded and highly liquid ...

NSW fintechs dominate Finnie Awards

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... budgeting app PocketBook took home the wealth management gong, while emerging fintech leader of the year was awarded to AfterPay's Nick Molnar. The excellence in regtech award went to automated bank statement retrieval specialist Proviso, while Sydney-based ...