Seven years ago, siblings Abigail and Jamie Forsyth founded KeepCup. They envisioned it as a business and a line of eco-friendly coffee cups in service of a campaign for behavioural change: ‘from discard to reuse’. Today, more than five million consumers worldwide have joined their ‘Reuse Revolution’. Abigail, the company’s managing director, spoke to Dynamic Business about the […]
Westpac has invested $16.5 million in uno Home Loans, a Sydney-based digital mortgage service that has attracted a number of investors since launching in May. According to uno CEO and founder, Vincent Turner, the platform (pronounced ‘you know’) was established to give people “greater control over the home loan process and the confidence to achieve […]
Home-grown Business Management Systems (BMS) provider, Holocentric has outbid larger international companies for tenders in Australia by harnessing the strengths of being a smaller operation and eliminating, where possible, the need to go head-to-head with better-resourced competitors, according to its CEO, Bruce Nixon. The tech company, which has offices in Sydney and Canberra, has worked […]
Consumer sentiment dropped by 3.2 per cent during April, hitting 96.2 per cent from the 99.5 registered in March.
The Index revealed Consumer Sentiment rose to 100.7 points in February, an 8 per cent rise from the 93.2 points registered in January. This is the highest level the Index has seen in the past 12 months.
Consumer sentiment has experienced its longest run of pessimism since the Global Financial Crisis and, before that, the early 1990s recession, according to the Westpac monthly sentiment index.
According to The Westpac Women and Technology Report, women are three times more likely than their male peers to use a smartphone to do their online banking.
All the big banks say they’re the best for small business, but they also all want a piece of this large part of the market. To cut through the confusion, here’s an in-depth look at what each bank claims to have to offer SMBs.
Consumer confidence fell by five percent in March, as Australians worry about rising interest rates and falling employment levels.
Businesses have welcomed news of a surprise jump in consumer sentiment, as the number of optimists outweighs the number of pessimists for the first time in some months.
