Tag: Loans

Welcome to this week’s edition of Let’s Talk, where we delve into funding options and provide expert tips for negotiating better loan rates.

Qantas will start referring business frequent flyers to lending platform Valiant Finance. This partnership helps Qantas members access working capital, asset finance and commercial loans. It will be enabled by Qantas Business Rewards, the airline’s frequent flyer program for SMEs. Olivia Wirth, Qantas Loyalty CEO, hopes that this move will help support businesses throughout the […]

Between the bushfires and the pandemic, many Australian companies have experienced a significant drop in revenue and have had to make employees redundant. Although JobKeeper has enabled them to keep some of their people employed, the program is scheduled to end in September. Even if it continues at a reduced level of funding, CEOs who […]

RBA statistics for April recorded the slowest annual growth in credit for mortgages since the data was first collected in the late 1970s. The growth of lending to businesses flatlined in April while personal loans retreated for the seventh month in a row and annual property credit plummeted to unprecedented lows, central bank statistics suggest. The […]

Nearly half (44%) of Gen Y (also referred to as millennials) small businesses have applied for finance in the last year and more than a third (39%) of those applications were declined. This is according to the latest findings from the MYOB Business Monitor.  The report, which explores the state of play of 1,000 Australian […]

Ombudsman has questions regarding the banking royal commission.

The modern business environment is tough, and fraught with challenges that can make or break your business. These days, it’s not enough to simply offer a quality service or product. The characteristics that set aside successful modern businesses are simple – agility and innovation. The ability to react quickly to opportunities is paramount to the ongoing […]

The beginning and end of the year represent two extremes of the human condition. As the year draws to an end, we celebrate extravagantly and we spend. Australians are thought to have spent $8.9 billion on Christmas gifts last year. In the New Year, we redeem ourselves with healthy living – we cleanse, we detox and we […]

With $10 million worth of loans already allotted and having recently listed on the ASX, the innovative consumer finance company, zipMoney, appears to be taking the retail industry by storm. Distributing finance through more than 200 retailers and merchants, the fintech lender provides customers with access to loans of up to $2000 via a simple smart […]

It’s said that buying a property is one of the most stressful life events. Further, mortgage lender incompetence, bank and finance problems are in the top 20 most stressful aspects of selling a property. For two people, those frustrations spawned the next big idea to hit the FinTech industry. Mandeep Sodhi, a loyal customer to […]