How frequently do you use cash to make transactions? The odds are, barely. Many Australians now feel comfortable leaving their home without a wallet, and one in three use digital wallets on their phones to make payments every week. Australians are departing from the cash society and businesses need to keep up. That’s where fintech
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To survive in today’s cut-throat business environment, you must have a foot in every door. For engineering design and construction company Aerison (ASX: AE1), that means expanding its services across Australia by offering eco-conscious solutions and varied infrastructural capabilities. In doing so, it is tapping into newer industries and, subsequently, more money. Aerison has received
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As surfing makes waves as an Olympic sport, Ingenia Holiday Parks and Surfing NSW have renewed their successful partnership. Ingenia Holiday Parks is part of Ingenia Communities Group (ASX: INA) and operates more than 40 holiday parks and resorts positioned along the East Coast of Australia which are popular family destinations for a short stopover, weekend
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Although it doesn’t apply to me, many of you may remember the early mornings during adolescence when you were throwing yourself around in a club, parading a locked-jaw, and beaming pupils so wide it would be hard to deny that you weren’t on something. Well, chances are, you had consumed MDMA, or if you were
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After successfully securing high-calibre road safety projects with the ACT and NSW Governments, road safety technology company Acusensus (ASX: ACE) is now ready to hit regional Queensland roads with trailer-based transportable speed camera solutions. This will be Acusensus’ third smart city tech project deployed in Queensland after previously operating mobile phone and seatbelt safety technology
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Australia needs labour. Job vacancies in the country are 95% higher today than in Feb 2020. There were over 444k vacant roles as of August 2022, cementing Australia’s alarming labour shortage—second to that of Canada—and the need to address it asap. The labour shortage has left many companies in limbo, with about 40% of SMEs
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The Buy Now Pay Later boom that took off at the pandemic’s beginning is finally fading away. And Aussie finance companies, like BNPL provider Openpay (ASX: OPY), are the worse for it. Melbourne-based FinTech company Openpay has surrendered control of its assets, operations and trading activities to partners of insolvency specialists McGrathNicol: Barry Kogan, Jonathan
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Centuries ago, if you failed to pay your debt, you’d have to offer yourself up as collateral, or, in the case of multiple creditors, you would be chopped up in proportion to their shares. Now, you can either negotiate your way out or risk losing your company. Chinese e-learning and tech company Retech (ASX: RTE)
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Child safety tech company Spacetalk Ltd (ASX: SPA) saw shares more than double in early trading on Thursday, and at the time of writing, has continued to surge higher. The rally followed news that the Company had appointed the former NearMap (ASX: NEA) CEO, Simon Crowther, who will take the helm as Managing Director and
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We don’t want to keep bringing up what happened last year to Optus, Medibank, or Telstra, but the cyber threat in Australia is real. According to IBM Global managing director Charles Henderson, Australia and the rest of Asia are being increasingly targeted for cyberattacks, and the average cost of each cyber breach in Australia, reached
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