Tagged: sydney

July 17, 2023 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has made an equity investment in Wollemi Capital, as part of the global climate specialist investment firm’s Series A capital raising. Headquartered in Sydney and with staff and investments across Australia and the US, Wollemi invests in the businesses and projects… Read More

March 19, 2023 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FloQast, a provider of accounting workflow automation software created by accountants for accountants, announced its expansion into Australia and New Zealand, with plans to establish and scale a local headquarters in Sydney. With global interest increasing as FloQast establishes itself “as an emerging international leader… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BankiFi, an embedded banking solutions provider, announced its expansion into North America with “the launch of BankiFi Americas.” The organization’s growth and expansion into the U.S. market “will support the unique digitization and payment modernization requirements of SMBs, while placing financial institutions at the heart… Read More

March 25, 2022 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian expense management Fintech Cape has acquired $33.1 million in capital from Aura Ventures, Investible, Scalare Partners, Mercury Capital and various business angels. Cape intends to offer a centralized node for handling internal expense controls, eliminating duplicate and unnecessary expenses, in order to assist firms… Read More

February 21, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-headquartered Fintech firm Lumi has acquired an additional $10 million in funding from existing investors Arbel Fund and Melbourne’s Perennial Partners in order to capitalize on the faster than anticipated growth in certain market segments. The SME lender has acquired a total of $30 million… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European online lender October recently revealed that Lot61 had borrowed €465,000 in order to finance an acquisition of part of their business. As mentioned in a blog post, October spoke to the company’s Australian founder Adam Craig about entrepreneurship, growth and “the… Read More

July 19, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, the global Open Banking solution provider, reveals that it has hired technical professionals in Australia in order to expand operations in the APAC region. Tilen Chetty will be joining TrueLayer in Sydney as Product Lead and Dan Gaskin will be working out of the… Read More

June 24, 2021 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mobiquity, a full-service digital transformation service provider, revealed that it has expanded its operations into the Asia-Pacific. The company’s APAC expansion will be supported by the appointment of ex- Microsoft and IBM Director, Gustavo Quiroga, who will be serving as Vice President of Business Development… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

x15ventures, which is Commonwealth Bank‘s venture-scaling unit, has chosen Stone & Chalk, Australia’s Impact Network for emerging tech startups and scale-ups, in order to assist with recruiting seasoned founders to take part in Xccelerate21, which focuses on reimagining the retail experience. Xccelerate21 is described as… Read More

June 14, 2021 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trust Payments, the multinational unified payments group, has teamed up with Zip, the first Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service to join its diverse network of payment partners. The agreement means that merchants based in the UK that are using Trust Payments’ platform may provide… Read More

May 30, 2021 @ 7:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Karachi’s Seed Labs, which has developed a new trading app (called dTrade), has secured $6.4 million in capital through a seed funding round at a $50 million valuation. Seed Labs co-founders Ahmad Jawaid, Zabi Mohebzada, Rabeel Jawaid, and Yameen Malik have helped create the dTrade… Read More

October 8, 2020 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-headquartered Fintech firm DataMesh Group has introduced a payment system that enables low-cost automatic routing through eftpos’ Australian debit system. DataMesh’s new payment solution should help merchants save as much as AUD 500 million per year in transaction fees, after it has been launched across… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm SendGold, which describes itself as a Gold-as-a-Service (GaaS) platform, reports an 819% increase in transaction volume and a 311% growth in transaction size since January 2020. Established in 2016, SendGold is a peer to peer (P2P) digital money platform focused on serving the… Read More

July 14, 2020 @ 7:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Virtual banking service provider Backbase is planning to establish two new offices in order to meet growing demand for its products in Australia, where digital banking platforms are expected to expand rapidly in the coming years. Backbase will be offering greater proximity and expertise in… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-based Tyro Payments (ASX: TYR), an Australian Fintech institution that specializes in merchant credit, debit and EFTPOS acquiring, reports that its transaction volumes during the past three weeks have been steadily increasing. Tyro Payments notes that from March 1 to March 20, there was a… Read More

November 21, 2019 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-based Tyro Payments, an Australian Fintech institution that specializes in merchant credit, debit and EFTPOS acquiring, submitted a prospectus on November 18 for conducting a local initial public offering (IPO) that aims to raise A$252.7 million (appr. $173.2 million). Founded in 2003 by Peter Haig,… Read More

November 4, 2019 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-based Westpac, one of Australia’s first banks and first companies, is reportedly planning to introduce a new digital banking platform in order to attract younger clients that may otherwise prefer opening accounts at neo banks. Westpac’s decision to launch a new digital brand was announced… Read More

February 27, 2017 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australian business media company Fintech Business announced the winners of the 2017 Fintech Business Awards, which recognized the outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship in the Australia fintech sector. The inaugural event’s description reads: “The inaugural Fintech Business Awards seeks to identify and acknowledge the leading individuals… Read More

July 27, 2016 @ 3:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Pozible announced TechSydney has been dubbed its biggest non-profit campaign after it raised over $400,000 within two weeks. TechSydney is notably on a mission to make Sydney a top 10 tech ecosystem. It shared that while it seems as though the city’s tech… Read More

June 21, 2016 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Australia’s equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd announced the closing of Clearstate’s recent deal, which secured $1 million in four hours. The end-to-end property development company took to the funding portal to raise $900,000 for residential property development in Sydney. According to a press release provided… Read More