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In the latest of our “Fintech Spotlight” series of posts, we look at a new player who is attempting to disrupt Payday lending using a digital platform and smart analytics. As normal, DFA was not paid for this post, and the views expressed are our own. I caught up with CEO & Co-Founder of Fintech … Continue reading “Fintech Spotlight Cheq – A Financial Angel on Your Shoulder”
In the latest in our occasional series on digitally disruptive innovators, we look at Tradeplus24. Note DFA is not paid for this article. Our sole focus is to share insights into the disruption which is occurring across the Finance Sector. Trade Receivables in no exception. I caught up with ex-Nab exec Adam Lane, Managing Director … Continue reading “Fintech Spotlight – Digital Disruption of Trade Receivables”
A fintech start-up is celebrating a $25million raise as it continues on its pathway to becoming Australia’s “most innovative home loan provider”; via AustralianBroker. Athena Home Loans, which is still in its pilot phase, has closed its most recent Series B raise led by Square Peg Capital. Industry super fund Hostplus and venture firm AirTree … Continue reading “Home loan fintech raises $25m”
I caught up with Mark Jones, Chief Executive Officer of SocietyOne, Australia’s first and only marketplace lender to reach $500 million in loan originations across its personal loan, agri lending and marketplace business. And now its setting its sights on reaching $1 billion by the end of calendar year 2019. I wanted to know how … Continue reading “Fintech Spotlight – SocietyOne – P2P Lending Getting the Recipe Right”
Fintech, GetCapital, one of the most interesting SME business lenders here in Australia, recently announced a distribution agreement with aggregator PLAN. So I took the opportunity to discuss the growth of the business with GetCapitals’ COO Frank Sterle in our occasional Fintech Spotlight series. Frank Sterle COO GetCapital GetCapital is a specialist lender to the … Continue reading “Fintech Spotlight: GetCapital”
Australian fintech Tic:Toc, has today announced a reduction in its fixed home loan (live-in) rates by up to 0.10%, bringing their headline 1-year fixed rate to 3.59% (comparison rate 3.64%). I discussed this rate price move and the current dynamics of the mortgage industry with Founder and CEO Anthony Baum today. See my earlier post … Continue reading “Fintech Tic:Toc Announces Reductions In Its Fixed Home Loan”
Global, online SME lender OnDeck has reached a new milestone for the value of loans written since it entered the market, just over 10 years ago, via Australian Broker. With operations across the US, Canada and Australia, the OnDeck Group has lent more than US$9 billion to more than 80,000 small business customers. Demonstrating the … Continue reading “Fintech OnDeck Lent More Than US$9 billion”
According to the KPMG’s The Pulse of Fintech 2018, 2018 started with a bang for the fintech market, with overall investment across venture capital (VC), private equity (PE) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals at mid-year already well above 2017’s total investment results. The sharp increase in activity was driven in part by two massive … Continue reading “Fintech Momentum Accelerates”
Digital banking platform start-up, Trade Ledger, has been named the “Ashurst Fintech Start-up of the Year” after expanding into the UK market and signing up a series of major deals in just one year. Trade Ledger is the world’s first open digital banking platform that gives banks and other business lenders the ability to assess … Continue reading “Trade Ledger wins “Ashurst FinTech Startup of the Year””
I caught up with the Co-Founder and CEO, David Boyd of Credit Card Compare, on their announcement of expansion into Singapore. Kwok (A Co-Founder of Finty), David & Andrew Boyd. Credit Card Compare does what it says on the tin, by providing a website for prospective credit card customers to select and compare the features … Continue reading “Fintech Spotlight – What’s On the Cards?”