Australian FinTech Rugby World Cup Tipping Competition
Australian FinTech Rugby World Cup Tipping Competition Join other FinTechie’s in our FREE Australian FinTech Rugby World Cup Tipping Competition! The World Cup starts in less than 24 hours so get in quick! Here are the details: http://www.superbru.com/rwcpredictor/pool.php?p=11475815 Pool name: Australian FinTech Pool code: malekent
Super funds back biggest-ever Australian tech venture fund worth $200 million | afr.com
This is certainly great news for the Australian tech start-up industry. It also shows great faith in what is to come out of the Australian tech sector in the coming years. Leading entrepreneurs and two major superannuation funds will combine forces to launch Australia’s biggest-ever technology start-up venture capital fund, with more than $200 million set aside to back growing companies. The new fund will be managed by Blackbird Ventures and has been backed by 96 technology entrepreneurs including Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, as well as two major superannuation funds, First State Super and Hostplus Super. It will target tech companies that would previously have headed overseas in search of […]
9 Giant Banks Make a Deal on Blockchain: What It Means | Alex Salkever
Here’s a follow-up article to yesterday’s article on the blockchain, but this explains it all even further… When Goldman Sachs talks, people all over the world listen. Today Goldman is talking about the blockchain. What the heck is the “blockchain”? Only the next biggest thing since the Internet, according to such tech visionaries such as noted venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. For most of those outside of Silicon Valley and other tech centers, the blockchain is some mysterious computer thing that works with Bitcoin. What they may fail to realize is that the blockchain could completely change the world by allowing us to finally establish true trust and accountability online. Source: […]
The CBA has joined eight other massive banks to take the technology behind bitcoin mainstream | Business Insider
Nine of the world’s biggest banks on Tuesday threw their weight behind blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin. Barclays, BBVA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, State Street, Royal Bank of Scotland, and UBS have all formed a partnership to draw up industry standards and protocols for using the blockchain in banking. The partnership is being led by R3, a startup with offices in New York and London headed by David Rutter, the former CEO of ICAP Electronic Broking and a 32-year veteran of Wall Street. Source: The CBA has joined eight other massive banks to take the technology behind bitcoin mainstream | Business Insider
Growth Hacking Competition
Are you the Intern that Uber missed out on? Australian FinTech company HashChing is organising a marketing growth hacking competition in Credit Services to select their next team of super interns that want to claim their mark on disrupting the Mortgage Industry. When: Fri, 16th October 2015 @ 10 am till Mon, 19th October 2015 (10 am) Where: At the Start-up office at 10/50 Victoria Rd in Drummoyne, NSW or wherever you want (but then you’ll miss out on the Fun, Buzz and Pizza’s) This is a TEAM event, so your entry should consist of 3-4 team members covering the following skills sets: Marketing UI Design Web Development Prizes: The […]
Third time lucky for Bitcoin Group at an IPO?
All the best to Australian FinTech company Bitcoin Group for their launch on the ASX this November. Bitcoin Group are certainly pioneering into the future and the future is now! Bitcoin Group, slated as the second digital currency company to list on the ASX, is set to finally float after twice revising its listing date since it first lodged its prospectus with the corporate cop in June. The bitcoin “miner” lodged a replacement prospectus on Friday, with a listing date set for November 11. The bookbuild for the offer started on Tuesday and will close on October 30. Source: Third time lucky for Bitcoin Group at an IPO?
P&N seeks fintech partners – The West Australian
WA’s biggest locally owned lender, P&N Bank, will scout potential partnerships and other investments to keep pace with the technological changes gripping the banking industry. Having dipped its toe in the fintech sector last year by taking a small equity stake in a superannuation software start-up, chief executive Andrew Hadley says the mutual bank “certainly has the intent of partnering, collaborating and potentially taking small equity positions” in other businesses of interest. Source: P&N seeks fintech partners – The West Australian
Bitcoin could disrupt banks warns Westpac boss | afr.com
How long will it be until Bitcoin starts to make a real impact on the incumbent banks…??? Westpac Banking Corp chief Brian Hartzer describes bitcoin and the blockchain as “potentially disruptive” technologies which could be “quite powerful from an efficiency point of view” but says there’s no need for banks to panic about being cut out from the monetary system because any impact will only come in the long term. The blockchain is technology that validates transactions made in bitcoin, digital money that is not controlled by any bank or government, but rather by an open network managed by its users. If it ever takes off, bitcoin could transform the […]
