Tag: Westpac

WA startups and scaleups targeting Singapore money

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
An ongoing Western Australian series connecting local scale-ups to investors in Singapore and other ASEAN countries runs its second event on Wednesday, with firms able to apply for an...

Debanking risks ‘undermining’ local tech sector

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The increasingly common practice of large financial providers “debanking” Australian tech firms is a “significant threat to competition” and risks “undermining” the growth of the local sector, a Parliamentary...

Bank-backed FinTech platform Lygon is now live

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Backed by a consortium including ANZ Bank, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM and Scentre Group, Lygon is a new digital platform that uses distributed Ledger technology to transform...

Australia’s open banking journey

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia has begun its trek towards an open banking regime but has a lot to learn from the UK, which is much further down the open banking track. A...

Quantum risks are rising: CIOs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Quantum computing is occupying the minds of many crack research teams both here and around the globe, but after a long and over-hyped gestation the technology is intriguing and...

Murray Hurps’ big new data gig

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An inability to access large data sets is holding back the next generation of potentially huge Australian tech companies, former Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps said. Mr Hurps, who finished...

Banks told to open up their data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There’s a clash developing between traditional finance institutions and the new wave of disruptive FinTechs and RegTechs over data access that may take government intervention to rectify. FinTechs and...

Tony Turnbull’s FinTech foray

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Sir Humphrey Appleby this week smashed a bottle of bubbly over the bow of a new FinTech committee, blessing all who sail in her. At least I assume it...