| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.08.2017 | Australia Fintech Industry, Startups Gain Global Recognition | Australia’s fintech sector has come a long way. In just a few years, the nation has seen its fintech industry mushroom and emerge as a globally recognized hub.
Image credit: Fintech by martin louis via Flickr
Fintech is hot topic in Austral... |
| 14.07.2016 | Pin Payments and Moula partner to provide faster lending to Australian small businesses | Pin Payments, Australia’s first all-in-one multi-currency payment system has partnered with Moula, an online provider of unsecured loans that empowers small businesses to share their online data and get approved for a loan in just a few sim... |
| 13.07.2016 | Pin Payments Partner With Moula | Pin Payments, Australia’s first all-in-one multi-currency payment system has partnered with Moula, an online provider of unsecured loans that empowers small businesses to share their online data and get approved for a loan in just a few sim... |
| 06.04.2016 | Pin Payments Partner With OFX | Perth startup Pin Payments have teamed up with OFX, one of the world’s largest international payments businesses, to provide seamless foreign currency transactions.
The referral partnership will give merchants the ability to accept online f... |
| 19.01.2016 | Mulch Club Launches New Website | Saxon Druce, hacker veteran of many Perth Startup Weekends, has been working on Mulch Club since November, and they’ve released a new web site. He tells us the story so far…
If you were at Startup Weekend #7 in November 2015, you might reme... |
| 04.01.2016 | Seven Australian fintechs to watch in 2016 | It’s set to be a flagship year for Australian fintechs, as the local ecosystem strives to become the “top dog” in Asia.
It’s a “pivotal” year that could prove to be “make or break” for many local fintechs, MoneyPlace co-founder Stuart Stoya... |
| 22.10.2015 | Pin Payments Raises Series A Round | Perth startup Pin Payments Raises $3.1m in Series A Round Led by Vix Investments
Vix Investments Limited is a global Fintech investor specialising in the payments sector. Vix portfolio investments include the recently-listed Touchcorp (ASX:... |
| 22.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 22, 2015 | Numerify closed a $37.5M funding; Poynt raised $28M; Movement Ventures secured $5.5M
Outlearn announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from General Catalyst Partners with participation from Paul Sagan, former CEO of Akamai Te... |
| 25.06.2015 | UK Fintech Delegation Has 40% Perth Startups | UK Trade and Investment Australia (UKTI) has announced the ten delegates it will be sending to the UK to take part in London FinTech Week. Four of the ten are Perth startups.
The UKTI FinTech Mission gives the delegates the opportunity to p... |
| 24.06.2015 | UKTI gives Perth real estate startup CrowdfundUP opportunity to open office in London | Perth-based real estate crowdfunding platform CrowdfundUP’s plans to open a head office in the United Kingdom will be sped up thanks to UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).
The startup is one of ten Australian fintech companies that will travel ... |
| 04.06.2015 | Recent Payment Outages | NAB provides the payments services behind a lot of the merchant services used by startups (Pin Payments, Stripe and Braintree all use them). NAB has been hit by some payment outages for the last 4 days, so we turned to local payments startu... |
| 09.04.2015 | Miles Burke – founder of 6Q | Miles Burke is a serial entrepreneur, public speaker and Author, who has been building the web since 1994. Miles founded the Australian Web Industry Association, and Authored the book, The Principles of Successful Freelancing (SitePoint, 20... |
| 20.11.2014 | RailsCamp Perth 2014 | We checked out RailsCamp to see how a vibrant tech community does a camping trip.
RailsCamp is an Australian invention that is slowly being adopted by the Rails community worldwide. The basic premise is pretty simple: take a community of Ra... |
| 11.11.2014 | Pin Payments announces $50 million in transactions and plans for a Series A round | As large online payment startups increasingly turn their attention to Australia, Melbourne and Perth-based startup Pin Payments continues to grow both in terms of revenue and merchants on its platform.
Stripe launched in Australia earlier t... |
| 28.10.2014 | Startup West – Party Wrap-Up | On Friday 24th October 2014 the startup community in Perth came together at the Whipper Snapper Distillery to fraternise with alcohol and celebrate the community with a festival style event called Startup West (StartupWest.org.au).
If you d... |
| 26.09.2014 | Payments startup Pin Payments introduces programmable bank transfer API | Perth and Melbourne-based payments startup Pin Payments has announced it is introducing a new API that will allow small businesses to automatically schedule their payments.
Co-founder Grant Bissett told Private Media he noticed the Australi... |
| 31.07.2014 | Smarter software will help chip and PIN protect us from fraud | Changes to how credit card transactions are handled at point-of-sale will come into effect in Australia this Friday, August 1. Magnetic stripe and signatures will no longer be the primary method for verification – instead, a chip-enabled ca... |
| 22.07.2014 | Stripe launches in Australia, says local market ripe for innovative web businesses | The launch of Stripe in Australia today is the “best thing since vegemite” says Stripe head of Australia/NZ, Susan Wu.
From today, the global payments platform is available to all Australian merchants, having been limited to a number of bet... |
| 21.07.2014 | Stripe launches in Australia, says local market ripe for innovative web businesses | The launch of Stripe in Australia today is the “best thing since vegemite” says Stripe head of Australia/NZ, Susan Wu.
From today, the global payments platform is available to all Australian merchants, having been limited to a number of bet... |
| 19.06.2014 | Show me the money! Four Australian disruptive financial services startups to watch | According to SEEK co-founder and Square Peg chief executive Paul Bassat, payments are the “holy grail of innovation”. He made the comment at The Australian Financial Review and Macquarie Future Forum on Tuesday, where some of Australia’s le... |
| 18.06.2014 | Show me the money! Four Australian disruptive financial services startups to watch | According to SEEK co-founder and Square Peg chief executive Paul Bassat, payments are the “holy grail of innovation”. He made the comment at The Australian Financial Review and Macquarie Future Forum on Tuesday, where some of Australia’s le... |
| 15.05.2014 | Choosing a payment gateway for your business | When starting your next online business you will undoubtedly be faced with the choice of integrating a payment gateway. Whether you make this choice yourself or leave it up to your web developer, there are now more payment gateways availabl... |
| 08.04.2014 | eGroup WA still a supportive forum | Greg Riebe - eGroup Chairman
I dropped in to eGroup WA last Tuesday evening to find a new and exciting dynamic. I must admit, it has been a few years since I last attended. Kids and a move to the hills have restricted my evening meetings. S... |
| 28.03.2014 | Stripe looks at accepting bitcoin, but Australians will have to wait | Online payments company Stripe is running a trial with US customers that allows them to accept bitcoin payments, but there is no definite date as to when this will be available in Australia.
Still a controversial currency, bitcoin has slowl... |
| 29.05.2013 | Payment systems not keeping up with new generation of online start-ups | A new generation of entrepreneurs are seeking new online sales payment systems, the founder of an Australian start-up says, as Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev flagged that regulators may have to examine the move by tech giants i... |
