February 23, 2026
Author: Darren Tredgold, General Manager at Independent Steel Company If you work in fintech and your mental image of supply chain finance involves container ships and enterprise ERP dashboards, you are missing the market that needs you most. I run a regional steel distribution business in South-East NSW. We operate three branches across Queanbeyan, Nowra,
February 22, 2026
Author: Hasan Can Soygök, Founder, Remotify.co Something shifted in cross-border payments between August 2025 and February 2026. Not a gradual shift either. Three forces collided at once: stablecoins got regulated, real-time payment networks started linking across borders, and legacy infrastructure finally retired. If you move money internationally for a living, here is what happened and why
February 22, 2026
Author: Alena Sarri, Owner Operator, Aquatots Swim schools don't show up in fintech trend reports. They probably should. Australia has over 600 registered swim schools teaching roughly 1.5 million kids a year. Swimming is the number-one participation activity for children under four in this country. And almost every one of those schools has quietly gone
February 21, 2026
Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant The neobank hype cycle is over. After years of burning through venture capital to chase user growth, the digital banking sector is hitting a wall. Roughly 76% of neobanks worldwide are still losing money. Only 23 out of 453 global digital challenger banks are operationally profitable. The
February 20, 2026
We asked industry leaders what separates the fintechs that sell for premium multiples from the ones that end up in fire sales. Here is what they told us. The fintech M&A market is back. Global investment hit $116 billion across 4,719 deals in 2025, bouncing back hard from a seven-year low the year before. But
February 20, 2026
YouX Fintech Company Data Breach: What You Need to Know Australia is facing a serious concern as highly personal information may have been exposed due to a major data breach at YouX, a Sydney-based fintech company. This incident has affected hundreds of thousands of individuals, leaving them vulnerable to potential identity theft and fraud. What
February 18, 2026
Author: Hasan Can Soygök, Founder, Remotify.co Most founders think growth means adding. More features. More services. More markets. But a growing pile of evidence says the opposite is true, especially for bootstrapped companies. The ones that win tend to be the ones that cut. The pattern keeps showing up ConvertKit launched in 2013 as a
February 17, 2026
The finance world is going through a quiet revolution. Not the flashy, crypto-bro kind. The kind where the boring stuff, how loans get approved, how data moves between systems, how decisions get made, is being rebuilt from the ground up. We asked founders and executives across fintech and tech what trends in finance they're most
February 17, 2026
The grind is dead. Or at least, it should be. In 2022, the fintech world got a wake-up call nobody could ignore. The Federal Reserve hiked rates, cheap capital dried up overnight, and some of the biggest names in the game watched their valuations crumble. Klarna went from $45.6 billion to $6.7 billion. Stripe took
February 16, 2026
Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant For years, ETFs mostly meant passive investing. You bought an ETF, you got “the market,” and you got it cheaply. That story is still true, but it is no longer the full story. The more newsworthy shift is this: active ETFs are growing fast, and the growth
February 16, 2026
Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant Open banking is a simple idea. You should be able to share your own financial data with whoever you choose. Want a budgeting app to see your transactions? A lender to check your real income instead of just your credit score? That should be your call, not
February 16, 2026
AI is making lending decisions, flagging fraud, and managing investment portfolios. Regulators are catching up. And the fintechs caught in the middle are trying to build compliance frameworks for rules that keep shifting under their feet. We asked industry leaders what compliance challenges they're seeing on the ground as AI takes on a bigger role
