Home featured AirWallex leaders, Rylan Dawes, Neil Luo and Dave Stein Featured Startup Featured Fintech unicorn Airwallex continues to disrupt, leaders share insight Loren Webb June 9, 2020 Fintech Unicorn Airwallex seems to continue to go from strength to strength; the startup managed to complete its largest funding round (US$160M) mid-pandemic and has recently introduced WeChat Pay as part of its payment options, opening up the Asian marketplace to Australian business. The Melbourne-founded global leader was also recently recognised – in November last year – as a topranked fintech in the KPMG Fintech100 report for 2019 , a global list of the world’s best fintech innovators. Their launch of WeChat Pay has been introduced as a stimulus to the Australian economy post-coronavirus. The expansion of the additional payment option will see Airwallex’s customer base instantly open up to the over 800 million Chinese consumers using WeChat Pay. Dave Stein, Airwallex’s Head of Corporate Development in Australia said that he expects e-commerce trends will continue post-pandemic. “We have seen e-commerce thrive during these unprecedented times. We believe this transition is here to stay even after the global lockdown ends, life normalises and shops reopen. “As more merchants transition online, they require a wide range of payment acceptance options to remain relevant to different payment preferences around the world. We are enabling merchants to adapt in today’s climate and also helping them open the doors to one of the largest and most active consumer markets in this world.” We spoke more to