Qantas wants more than its share of the travel market - it now has designs on your house.Yep, the Flying Kangaroo has acknowledged that if there's (only) one thing Aussies love more than travel, it's property, and moved into the mortgage market.The hook - and it's sure to be an attractive one to the multi-millions who search out, earn and hoard rewards points - is that your new Qantas mortgage will pay you 100,000 Qantas points annually as an incentive to make the switch.A detailed review of the offering is here:https://www.smh.com.au/money/banking/you-get-a-free-flight-every-year-but-is-qantas-new-home-loan-any-good-20230210-p5cjjy.html

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Small business banking, accounting & tax solution provider, Thriday, has upped the ante in the sector by rolling out an 'us against our peers' comparison feature. Up to 30 so-called competitors are bench-marked against Thriday across metrics including features, cost & support.Without any experience of using Thriday, nor any affiliation with them, I find this approach interesting, bold and intriguing, and wonder if it may set a precedent for further such differentiation pieces to aid the vendor-selection process in FinTech.You can run your own comparison here: https://www.thriday.com.au/compare

Fraud and Scams (or at least attempts), plague our lives. Emails, texts, calls, FB Marketplace, everywhere.However, are we looking close enough to home, at our own pets even?Sometimes good ideas should just stay as ideas, as one unlucky YouTuber found when his pet fish exposed his credit card details on his channel and started an online shopping spree.That's a pretty big flaw in the payment authentication workflow, don't you think?I for one would love to see the chargeback request for this!https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41687/pokmon-playing-fish-commit-credit-cod-fraud

Survival of the Fittest: proven business models, profit focussed, who knew?Security & Fraud:  if 2022 taught us anything, this is you should be prioritising CAPEX in 2023. Normalized funding rounds and valuations: 2021 was a mistake, let’s just forget it happened and move on. Big Tech Vultures: off the back of Fintech’s validating products, Big Tech swoop in and replace or acquire capability. AI (*cough* ML): plays a prominent role in new products and experiences. BaaS Consolidation: It’s Highlander time for providers and NEO’s, how many do we really need?BNPL Evolution: not revolution, times’ changing.