12 December 2019
New Zealand has been ranked one of Asia Pacific’s fastest emerging fintech hubs and one of the top 10 fintech destinations in the region, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says.
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04 December 2019
New Zealand is ranked 45th globally in the first Global Fintech Index City Rankings 2020 which identifies emerging hubs, fintech companies and trends of fintech ecosystems in more than 230 cities across 65 countries.
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28 November 2019
AI is one of the most revolutionary forces for the insurance trade in New Zealand today, a major landmark national AI report just released says.
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04 November 2019
New Zealand is becoming more and more a digital nation and Kiwis expect transactions to be seamless and painless, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says.
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The FinTech industry has grown up and grown out. No longer made up of only start-ups, FinTech today is a host of seasoned companies that offer a broad array of financial services and operate on a global stage. FinTechs strives to make financial services more accessible for both consumers and bus
October 14, 2019
New Zealand could soon be on the cusp of open banking, possibly one of the greatest shake-ups in how customers manage their money, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. Brown is already in the UK brokering relationships which will have a lasting impact on opportunities for New Zealand comp
October 1, 2019
Dear readers, How are things? Busy? It just seems to be the default answer these days, I thought technology was going to make life easier not busier. However, we still have to choose what we get involved with and that’s normally a personal decision. So since my last note its been all abo
September 20, 2019
We started Sharesies to create equal opportunities for people to grow their wealth. In the past, people had been priced out, jargoned out and left out of wealth development opportunities. This had resulted in only 18% of Kiwis owning shares (30% in Australia and 50% in the US), with the typical inv
September 19, 2019
Dear Readers I am so glad that we are nearly at the stage where we can clone ourselves, there is so much going on. Still high on the agenda following the recent revamp of the FinTechNZ strategy is engagement with Government and I am really looking forward to the Regulation Lunch that we are h
August 22, 2019
Introducing new services and design that makes interacting with the NZ Government surprisingly good Born out of the All of Government banking tender, the Innovation Fund is a joint programme by the New Zealand Government and Westpac. The Innovation Fund invests in ideas that support government a
August 21, 2019
***Updated to V1.1 August 2019*** Discover who is investing in, working with and thinking about the effects of financial technology in New Zealand. View Version 1.1 published 20 August 2019 View Version 1.0 published 20 November 2018 The FinTech sector in New Zealand continues to grow faster than
August 20, 2019
The Reserve Bank has published an exposure draft of the Financial Market Infrastructures Bill (FMI Bill), and is asking for feedback from stakeholders. The FMI Bill covers vitally important financial systems for New Zealanders, including the infrastructure that supports our day-to-day transacti
August 13, 2019
FintechNZ says Kiwis will soon see more banks supporting smart tech companies to help boost exports and business. ASB bank has got behind new tech company, TradeWindow, to help fast-track development of its distributed ledger technology trading product. TradeWindow is one of the first tech firms
August 13, 2019