Perhaps more famous for a world cup winning rugby team and hobbits, New Zealand also boasts a thriving technology scene – populated by both homegrown companies and multinationals. You see, we’re the ideal testing ground […]
Category: P2P Lending
The untapped opportunity of the unbanked
2.5 billion individuals in the developing world do not have access to a bank account. Classified as ‘unbanked’, they are said to present a serious challenge to governments when it comes to lifting their respective nations out of […]
Dermot Crean – The Tasmanian entrepreneur plugging the cashflow gap
It’s the year 2000. The word fintech is but a mere twinkle in the eyes of the future disruptors of finance, but, in a Goldman Sachs deal room, most likely even unbeknownst to the MBA educated financiers present, the seeds of one […]
Mitchel Harad – The SocietyOne CMO with a relentless focus on scale
Australia’s first peer-to-peer lender, SocietyOne, has quite possibly landed one of the best marketing brains in the fintech space, in the shape of Mitchel Harad, former Vice President of Marketing at market darling Lending Club. It’s another coup for […]
Bartering, dating and banks – a fintech love triangle
Unless you do extensive market research and spend hours doing detailed comparisons between service providers, as a business owner it can be hard, to near impossible, to work out if you are getting a fair price […]
Peer to peer lenders – are they really that different to banks?
Peer-to-peer lending , marketplace lending, P2P lending – call it what you will. There’s absolutely no doubt P2P is the topic du jour amongst investors and industry commentators. And on the surface it’s not hard to see […]
