| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2024 | Regional consumers and businesses left behind by failing telco infrastructure | Image: Supplied article-article-body
Australians in regional, rural and remote areas continue to face significant telco service issues, including service faults, poor mobile cover and outages, according to a new report from the Telecommunic... |
| 16.08.2024 | Apple’s NFC Revolution: A New Era for Contactless Payments | Apple is unlocking a new frontier in mobile payments. With the upcoming release of iOS 18.1, developers will gain access to the iPhone's NFC chip and Secure Element. This is a game-changer. It opens the door for third-party apps to facilita... |
| 15.08.2024 | Apple opens third-party payments for Australian iPhones | Tyro's iPhone payment system. Source: Tyro article-article-body
Apple has announced Australian iPhones will soon support third-party contactless NFC payments, which will roll out with iOS 18.1
This feature leverages the iPhone’s NFC chip an... |
| 26.07.2024 | The 3G Shutdown: A Wake-Up Call for Small Businesses**
** | ** The clock is ticking. The 3G mobile network is on its last legs, and small businesses across Australia are in the crosshairs. The impending shutdown is not just a technical issue; it’s a potential crisis for many. As major telecommunicat... |
| 24.07.2024 | 3G shutdown: Tyro, Ombudsman urge small businesses to act before it’s too late | Source: Supplied article-article-body
Payments provider Tyro has reminded its small business customers to make sure they are no longer using the 3G mobile network to process in-store transactions, ahead of the impending shut-down of the tel... |
| 09.01.2024 | Tyro adopts the Pismo platform to enhance its operations in Australia | The Aussie payments and cashflow solutions company selected the cloud-based platform to speed up innovation and expand its market presence
BRISTOL, England and SYDNEY, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pismo, provider of a cloud-native and API-b... |
| 21.05.2023 | Fintech Firm Tyro Offers Tap to Pay on iPhone for Clients to Accept Contactless Payments | Tyro Payments is pleased to announce that its customers in Australia are now able to accept in-person contactless payments seamlessly and securely with Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone contactless payment acceptance technology using the new Tyr... |
| 15.01.2021 | Tyro halts trading following week-long outage | Tyro Payments has entered a trading halt following a week-long connectivity issue affecting its eftpos terminals, as it faces new scrutiny from financial research group Viceroy.
The connectivity issue, first reported to ASX this week, affec... |
| 18.09.2019 | The Most Well-Funded Fintech Startups in APAC by Country in 2019 | Global fintech investment witnessed a massive surge in 2018 with most of that amount going towards companies in Asia Pacific (APAC).
Out of the US$55.3 billion raised by fintech companies last year, 54% of that was raised by APAC companies,... |
| 03.09.2018 | First Australian Bank To Integrate With Alipay | Tyro, Australia’s business-only bank announced it had entered an agreement with the world’s largest mobile and online payment platform, Alipay, to become the first Australian bank to offer a seamless, all-in-one EFTPOS solution with Alipay ... |
| 27.12.2017 | Australian Fintech & Challenger Bank Tyro to Launch New Financial Solutions for SME | Australian fintech and challenger bank Tyro is set to launch a new set of financial solutions for small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Founded in 2001, Tyro describes itself as Australia’s largest independent EFTPOS provider, focusing on sma... |
| 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... |
| 14.09.2016 | Tyro announces $250,000 in ‘smart growth’ grants for innovative SMEs | Australian small businesses could receive up to $25,000 each for increasing business efficiencies and sharing innovative ideas on how to boost business growth.
The Tyro Smart Growth Grant program, which kicks off today, will see up to 10 sm... |
| 15.08.2016 | Banking inefficiency report reveals cost to small businesses from red tape | New research has found that banking red tape is costing more than 880,000 of Australia’s two million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) four weeks’ productive work time a year, burdening the national economy almost $7 billion annuall... |
| 14.07.2016 | Six reasons why SMEs find it hard to get finance from banks | By Neil Slonim and Graham Brown
With non-bank lenders popping up every month to fill the multi-million dollar gap in business financing, it’s hard to know where to start. So why do SMEs find it hard to get finance from banks?
1. Lack of sec... |
| 06.05.2016 | Josh Khoddami – co-founder of Neu.Capital | website twitter LinkedIn
Josh Khoddami is the co-founder of Neu.Capital – the world’s first online marketplace for companies seeking $5m-100m outside the banks. Through innovative technology and a simple, transparent, competitive process, N... |
| 24.03.2016 | Alistair and Pat – founders of Skippr | website twitter
Alistair and Pat are the founders of Skippr – a smart finance platform using the power of technology to help businesses understand and optimise their cash flow.
No longer should cash flow inhibit the ability of a business to... |
| 08.03.2016 | Square launches payments in Australia, its first country expansion in nearly three years | It’s been almost three years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 — but this week it went Down Under with a long-awaited lau... |
| 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... |
| 04.12.2015 | Perion acquires Undertone for $180 million; AppDynamics raises $158 million; Tyro Payments raises $100 million | One of the biggest stories in a busy week across the startup space came from Australia, with fintech startup Tyro Payments announcing that it had raised $100 million in funding from Tiger Global, TDM Asset Management, and Mike Cannon-Brooke... |
| 30.11.2015 | Tyro Payments Secures A$100M in Funding | Tyro Payments Limited, a Sidney, Australia-based point-of-sale payment solutions provider, secured A$100m in funding.
Backers included Tiger Global Management, TDM Asset Management and Australian technology entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes.... |
| 29.11.2015 | Australian Financial Tech Company Tyro Payments Raises $72M Led By Tiger Global | Australian financial tech company Tyro Payments plans to challenge the country’s leading retail banks after scoring AUD $100 million (about $72 million) in funding from Tiger Global, TDM Asset Management, and Atlassian co-founder Mike Canno... |
| 27.05.2015 | Tyro chief says let a thousand fintech startups bloom in Australia over the next two years | A thousand startups need to be created in the next two years if Sydney is to become a world leader in financial technology, according to the chief executive of online payments platform Tyro.
Serial entrepreneur Jost Stollmann told StartupSm... |
| 25.05.2015 | Scientists and engineers, not lawyers, will drive Australia’s prosperity: Jost Stollmann | The world’s greatest challenges are being solved by scientists and engineers, not bankers and lawyers, according to the chief executive of Australian fintech startup Tyro.
Speaking at The Sunrise conference in Sydney, serial entrepreneur Jo... |
| 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... |
| 07.01.2011 | Getting a star name on board | If you’re a start-up, nothing says ‘next big thing’ more than having a few high profile names on your board.
Being able to attract a big name to your board not only tells the world that the people that matter have faith in your business, it... |
