Like the global fintech market, investment in the Australian fintech sector has taken a pause for the first half of 2019, as the industry prepares for the next phase of its development.
Over the past five years, the H2 Ventures and KPMG Fintech100 report has tracked the emergence and maturation of the startups looking to revolutionise the financial services sector.
In Australia, we often labour under the misconception that industries in other countries are more advanced than ours. But according to our latest global fintech report this is not the case.
The number of fintech start-ups has risen from fewer than 100 in 2014 to 579 companies today with the great majority Australian owned. In Australia, fintech has ‘come of age’.
Insurance is an industry ripe for disruption. Around the world, insurers are struggling with myriad challenges including low level of consumer trust, high competition, a low interest rate environment, shrinking…
This month we launched the KPMG Mutual Fintech Acceleration Program (KPMG mLabs) bringing together seven Mutual ADIs and fourteen fintech startups in a market-first corporate industry sector innovation accelerator. To…
It’s a sunny Sydney Sunday afternoon. The BBQ is burning, drinks are the flowing and someone has just taken a cracking catch in the backyard cricket game. And then, inevitably,…
