What you need to know about Australia’s New Payments Platform
The New Payments Platform (NPP) is the Australian equivalent of the UK’s Faster Payments Service – only on track to ...
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Why fintech companies should measure performance differently to banks
In 2006 the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University in Australia launched a study into the correlation between ...
‘Wear’ To Go Next for Business-first Wearables?
Mention wearables, and most of us immediately think consumer first – the Apple Watch, Fitbits, Google Glasses and so on. ...
Fintechs Might Be Scalable, But Are They Defensible?
Scaling a business is a challenging endeavour for a fintech provider up against the big old boys of banking. Unlike ...
Australia more “fintech-ready” than some European peers – TransferWise
Often touted as a niche industry, this author is seeing early signs that mass-acceptance of fintech providers by consumers and ...
A fintech apple a day could keep the bankers away
If you’d read my post last week, you would have seen I was in Brisbane, Australia for Xerocon South. And ...
Fintech Startup Takes Aim at Financial Modelling for SMEs
Today I’m coming to you live from Xerocon South in Brisbane, Australia. Xerocon is cloud accounting behemoth Xero’s flagship event ...
XBRL to Flatten Information Asymmetries in the Small Business Lending Market
There is simply nothing more frustrating than trying to communicate with someone when neither of you speak the same language. Having ...
Fintech Players Up the Ante on Comprehensive Credit Reporting
Image credit: Cafe Credit In March 2014 the Australian Parliament rubber stamped new Credit reporting & Privacy Laws that enabled Credit ...
Why Serving Small Business Is a Smart Move (After Decades of Being a Dumb Move)
Image source In 1954, Fortune 500 companies accounted for around 1/3 of GDP in America. By 2000, that share had ...
