The events of the past few days have demonstrated how fast the economic ground beneath us can shift. With markets and bookies pricing in a win for the ‘remain’ campaign, the carnage that was seen […]
Category: Small Business
Can only the wealthy become entrepreneurs?
‘Entrepreneurial talent is not the prerogative of the wealthy, but is broadly distributed throughout the population as a whole. Without reasonable access to financing, many of our countries’ most talented and aggressive entrepreneurs will be […]
Building a bank – Tyro launches its first banking solution
If you’ve traveled internationally before, you’re probably familiar with the Incoming Passenger Cards they make you fill out before you land. The ones that basically ask you to willingly disclose if you’re a drug runner, […]
What the Square IPO means for POS vendors and payments in Australia
Square’s plan to IPO later this year must be the worst kept secret in the financial technology sector. Processing $US30 billion in payments from its millions of merchant customers in 2014, it now offers business lending, payroll […]
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 […]
Jost Stollmann – The Fintech Entrepreneur With An Attraction for Mission Impossible
This is the first in a series of profiles on Australia’s leading Fintech Entrepreneurs. CEO of Tyro Payments, Jost Stollmann, is not your everyday briefcase wielding, cappuccino sipping banking executive. In fact, until he’d stepped […]
Can small business make it out of the banking too hard basket?
According to the RBA, Australian SMEs represent about 95 per cent of the over 2 million actively trading businesses in Australia. In total, they are considered to account for 68 percent of all industry employment and […]
