Fintech

The Brisbane exchange uses Crypto News Australia, which it owns, to promote its services. Media experts say the lack of transparency is concerning.

The Brisbane crypto exchange has recorded its first profit in two years after striking a bizarre set of loans with its own founders.

Global cross-border payments specialist Wise sees Australia as a prime market for growth with digital and existing banks receptive to its platform.

Ubank's CEO details the exhausting acquisition of 86 400, and where the neobank sits within NAB after the big bank's strategic review.

The rise of Hnry, a trans-Tasman pay-as-you-go accounting fintech, shows how personal solutions can effectively scale into significant businesses.

Balmain’s investment accelerates Caruso’s global expansion, as the fintech disrupts fund management with $15 billion in assets under administration.

The firm's latest Fintech Landscape survey suggests that the fintech winter is not over yet — but there are nonetheless some warmer signs.

The highest-profile blockchains and cryptocurrencies are designed to avoid regulation. Redbelly, which has just gone live, is a regulatory compliant blockchain targeting real-world assets.

In the latest of multiple reviews of payments and surcharging in Australia, industry seems to have only one view in common: it's a mess.

In the next few years, CBA is aiming for generative AI to be at the heart of its key banking app and core systems, as it embeds the technology across the bank.

The Reserve Bank governor has provided a rare insight into the central bank's philosophy on regulating Australia's rapidly evolving payments industry.

At the region's biggest fintech festival in Singapore, quantum computing and tokenisation were hot topics. But the chatter about last year's star, AI, was notably subdued.

After focusing on existing investments over the last two years, ANZ's 1835i has made the first of what will be a number of transactions.

Through its Stand With Crypto initiative, the company is looking to turn local crypto enthusiasts into evangelists for clearer regulation.

As the ACCC vows to ramp up scrutiny of surcharging, a Mastercard survey found a third of merchants were breaching regulations over the practice.

QR code payments dominate in China, India and other emerging economies. Now they've arrived in Australia, but widespread adoption faces major hurdles.

The ACCC has decided against decisive action into foreign currency transactions and cross border transfers despite arguments for greater transparency in the opaque market.

FOI documents reveal two major industry organisations made last-minute lobbying efforts just weeks before the government passed the contested reforms with bipartisan support.

The venture scaler, which is Commonwealth Bank’s unique take on a corporate VC, is set to more than double its revenue this financial year.

Red Energy has become the first major Australian institution to adopt the NPP’s PayTo feature, enabling real-time, secure bill payments directly from customer bank accounts.

ANZ's venture arm is not dormant, its CEO says, but it has been focused on preserving its portfolio of investments in the last two years - including a stake in Airwallex. That's about to change.

The government’s plan to ban surcharges on debit transactions could rattle the business models of Australia's legion of payments fintechs.

The fintech unicorn is embracing AI to streamline payments and expense management as it hurtles towards an eventual public listing.

This year's edition of Intersekt cut to the core of fintech’s biggest debates, from founder mode and manager mode to the evolving corporate-fintech partnerships shaping the industry’s future.

The most transformational developments in payments, which will reshape financial services, are real time account-to-account payments and open banking, according to Capgemini.

Amid a push for extra fees in the new real time payments system, the RBA has warned participants to recognise the benefits they are receiving, not just their spend.

PayTo, meant as a low-cost direct debit alternative, is facing the prospect of extra fees — raising costs and the prospect of consumer surcharges.

When COVID hit, payments startup Zeller had just raised its seed round. It had to learn some quick and hard lessons on hiring and building in a new environment.

Westpac was once the most enthusiastic of the big four banks on VC. Now it is taking a more nuanced approach to the fintech sector.