Trade Ledger™ wins Australian FinTech Startup of the Year at the 3rd Annual FinTech Awards

Sydney, 2 August 2018 - The world’s first corporate open banking lending platform, Trade Ledger™, has tonight been presented with the “Australian Fintech Start-up of the Year” award by Australian Prime Minister, The Hon. Scott Morrison. This follows expansion into the UK and European markets recently, and signing up a series of major deals in its first 12 months of operations.

The award goes to any fintech start-up “that has disrupted the financial services sector with new and innovative services, creating competition and transforming the way we experience financial services”.

Trade Ledger™ has done this by being the first corporate lending tech in the world to automate the entire credit assessment process, assess SME supply chain data in real-time, and calculate risk down to the individual invoice. No other lending tech in the world can currently do all of these things.

This could allow banks and other business lenders to tap into the AU$90 billion of unmet business credit demand in Australia, and US$2.1 trillion globally.

Martin McCann, CEO and Co-Founder of Trade Ledger™, said:

“As the global economy transitions towards smaller, high-growth businesses – our all-important start-up and innovation ecosystem – business lenders have an obligation to learn how to supply working capital desperately needed by these businesses of the future,”

He continued: "Australian banks and business lenders also face risks on several fronts. On the one hand, they need to improve both their cost/income ratio and their capital efficiencies within this segment that is traditionally considered as high risk. On the other, they are facing increased competition from technology behemoths such as Amazon, Tencent, and eBay, who are all threatening to use their hordes of data to enter financial services."

“The Trade Ledger platform equips these lenders with the same degree of technological proficiency as these massive tech firms, while arming them with the tools needed to meet our booming innovation ecosystem’s need for credit,” concluded Martin McCann.

The FinTech Awards owner, Glen Frost, was particularly impressed with both the quality and quantity of this year’s applications.

Speaking on the night, Glen Frost said:

“The 3rd Annual FinTech Awards recognise and reward the innovators and the risk takers. To be recognised by your peers for your innovation and entrepreneurial spirit will sustain you through the tough times, it will motivate you, and it will show your customers, investors and staff, that you’ve got what it takes.

“I congratulate Martin McCann, and his team at Trade Ledger, on winning the Ashurst FinTech Startup of the Year.”

For more information on Trade Ledger just contact us.  the FinTech Awards: www.fintechawards.net

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