This Month
Travel fintech Mint Payments gears up for $20m secondary round
Perennial Value Management, Duncan Saville’s ICM Allectus Capital and Kelly Partners Investment Office may seek to part with their minority positions.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
February 2017
Mint Payments rattles the tin
Broker Canaccord has kicked off an equity raising for ASX-listed fintech Mint Payments.
- Edited by Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Joyce Moullakis
November 2015
Peppermint Innovation to join ASX's fintech bunch
A digital payments start-up that makes all its earnings in the Philippines is set to list on the Australian Securities Exchange next week.
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- James Eyers
September 2015
goCatch hitches a ride with Mint Payments as taxi wars heat up
Taxi booking app goCatch has signed a deal with Mint Payments to hijack the lucrative payments market from start-up rival Ingogo and incumbent Cabcharge.
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- Patrick Durkin
December 2014
Investors wary despite Mint’s new contracts
The outlook for mobile payment outfit Mint Wireless is looking a mite better after a string of new contract announcements, but investors aren’t buying yet.
- Shaun Drummond
Fee cap serves only Cabcharge, says Ingogo founder
Payment devices are now strewn over taxi dashboards and cab-booking apps are multiplying, but Hamish Petrie, the founder of Cabcharge challenger Ingogo, argues several small players will be turfed.
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- Shaun Drummond
October 2014
Mint Wireless drops CEO, starts review to stall share fall
Updated | Mint Wireless’s recently appointed chief executive, Robin Khuda, has resigned while the company behind MYOB’s smartphone mobile card reader was in a two-day trading halt.
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- Shaun Drummond
April 2014
CBA to introduce smartphone ATM withdrawals
Updated | Commonwealth Bank customers will be able to withdraw cash from ATMs using their smartphones - and without a debit or credit card - for the first time next month, under an update to the bank’s mobile apps.
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- James Hutchinson
April 2014
CBA throws Emmy into easy-pay ring
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is set to join the land-grab for small business mobile payments as local competitors gear up for the long-rumoured entrance of US payments rival Square.
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- James Hutchinson
February 2014
Big Aussie banks warn Square they’re ready for the challenge
Australia’s biggest banks have warned United States payments player Square that it will face a big task in cracking open the local market for card transactions, saying ongoing innovation and upcoming new products would make them more than a match for Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s company.
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- Paul Smith
January 2014
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Kiwi technology company Serko to run with the bulls
New Zealand’s $5 billion cloud accounting software stock Xero has captured the imagination of investors on both sides of the Tasman. And brokers are now scouting for new tech listings which could tap into the boom-time investor demand.
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- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Gretchen Friemann
October 2013
Canaccord reiterates ‘buy’ on Mint Wireless
Canaccord Genuity has retained its ‘buy’ on Mint Wireless, after the mobile payments provider said demand for its ‘PayClip’ solution with the Bank of New Zealand had exceeded expectations.
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- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Gretchen Friemann
July 2011
Junior resource stocks raise capital
Junior resources stocks Southern Cross Exploration, Bounty Oil & Gas and West Wits Mining were among the companies to feature in equity capital raisings on Thursday.
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- Anthony Macdonald
June 2011
Healthy interest helps Prima BioMed top raisings
Prima BioMed topped capital raisings on Tuesday after it announced a recent share purchase plan had closed oversubscribed and raised $20.3 million. Other raisers on Tuesday included Matilda Zircon, Mint Wireless and Two Way.
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- Anthony Macdonald
March 2011
Mint Wireless (MNW)
Shares in Mint Wireless jumped last week following the news the group had bought 51 per cent of a Malaysia-based telecommunications services and mobile airtime reload and transfer provider from Insas Technology.
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- stephen shore