Australian Fintech and Startups
The Big Four have doubled down on their investment in digital receipt company, Slyp. Link
Long read: KPMG Fintech Pulse H2 2021. Really good insights into the domestic and int’l Fintech landscape. Link
Automatic cashback app, Furthr, announced a partnership with Qantas employees to incentivise spending to businesses affected by COVID. Furthr was the ‘Cool Fintech of the Week’ a few months ago and kicking goals! Link / App
Zip entered the Singaporean market via a partnership with Singtel’s Dash. Link
GoCardless secured a $437m Series G. Gee that’s a lot of Gs. Link
Wesfarmers is going to take over Priceline. Mega loyalty play here. Link
BNPL Zebit delisted from the ASX, following a ~95% drop in share price. Link
Big Tech
Apple’s turning iPhones into payment terminals. Link
Potpourri
Cool find: ‘Escher Sentences’ a comparative illusion in linguistics where a sentence, upon first reading, seems to make sense. Then after re-examining the sentence becomes ambiguous to interpretation. Example: More people have been to Melbourne than I have. Link
Trivia
(a) Most of Egypt is in Africa. What is the name of the Egyptian peninsula located in Asia?
(b) Name the two US states tied for having the highest percentage of their letters made up of vowels.
(c) What four letter word can be put before all of the following words to create new words? Head, knowledge, leg, lock, mast, and quarter?
Trivia Answers
(a) Sinai Peninsula
(b) Hawaii and Ohio
( c) fore-
no one has been to Melbourne more than you have Mr Grafton