Cost-of-living pressures may have mostly been referenced during reporting season by companies reliant on discretionary spending, but this has filtered into the world of financial services for Equity Story (ASX: EQS) whose target customers are those same households on low-to-middle incomes – retail investors. Seeking to navigate through these rocky conditions, Shane White has been
Read MoreFrom being a building society—offering financial services like loans and mortgages—to being an Aussie-owned bank, Auswide Bank (ASX: ABA) hasn’t had an easy rise up to take on the Big Four with intense competition on the home loans and deposit fronts. Auswide Bank reported a 45.7% decrease in its Statutory NPAT to $7.6 million amidst
Read MoreAustralian finance service company Butn (ASX: BTN) has reported a strong performance for Q3 FY23, with record originations and revenue. The quarter’s loan originations totalled $109.0 million, up 77% on the previous corresponding period, with March representing another record month with $41.1 million in originations. Butn’s quarterly platform originations also increased significantly, up 158% on
Read MoreFinancial services company HALO Technologies (ASX: HAL) is putting its IPO money to use with global expansion in 2023 via the acquisition of Resilient Fund Managers Limited, a London-based peer that will fast-track HALO’s entry into the market. The acquisition will leverage Resiliant’s regulatory licences, aka the equivalent of an AFSL, in the UK and
Read MoreAccounting and financial services company Kelly and Partners (ASX: KPG) is accelerating its national expansion plans with the acquisition of a new firm located in Gosford, NSW as part of a strategy to roll up accounting businesses that can become Top 100 firms by size. The strategic acquisition will provide a Kelly Partners subsidiary with
Read MoreFintech developer and transactions processor Novatti (ASX: NOV) has reported record payment processing revenues for the quarter ending December 31, 2019, a rise of 45% compared to the corresponding 2018 quarter. The increase from $1.15m to $1.55m comes solely from Novatti’s international transaction processing business, just one division of the Company which has a banking
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