Pause Awards - Australia's leading innovation awards - has shone a further IWD spotlight on the gender pay-gap by discouting awards entries for female founders by the same amount as the published pay differential.Previous Fintech Pause winners have included female-founded Verve Super, Dom Pym, founder of Up Bank, and WeMoney, who stormed home with 4 awards in 2023.[pictured: Christina Hobbs, Zoe Lamont, Alex Andrews]

Investing for the first time can be confusing, especially for young people wanting to promote positive impact on people and the planet. Inaam is a fintech app helping investors discover causes they care about, to create a curated impact portfolio.More importantly, it explains how each $ invested helps achieve ESG goals. Starting with shares, the vision is to expand into every asset class at all stages in the capital life cycle, so investing can operate more sustainably and embrace circular economy principles. Inaam will reinvest its own profits into impact businesses led by diverse founders.  Waitlist information: www.inaam.me

The global impact investing market is set to soar. Yet many investors are struggling to find accessible opportunities that offer transparency and liquidity. Enter RegenX, an innovative fintech startup transforming alternative assets by using tokenisation to unlock private capital for climate-positive projects. RegenX is building a seamless SaaS platform that enables investors from all walks of life - including individual enthusiasts, financial advisors, wealth managers, and institutions - to channel funds into sustainable ventures in real estate, private credit, infrastructure, commodities, renewables, art, wine, collectibles and more.The end result is allocation of capital for positive environmental and social impact.