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]

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.

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