FinTech
Pause Awards Highlights Gender Pay-gap With Discounts For Female Founders
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]
 
FinTech
WeMoney Delivers Fintech Festive Cheer
WeMoney - the personal finance app that helps reduce debt & bolster financial literacy - gave the Fintech sector a much-needed Christmas boost by taking home 3 gongs at the Pause Awards presentation night in Melbourne.In what has been a tough year for many Fintechs, WeMoney's holistic approach to helping consumers source better deals whilst improving their overall financial health, especially during periods of high financial pressure, clearly resonated with the judges.The Pause Awards is a spin-off of Pause Fest, which for many years was Australia's Equivalent to SXSW, and recognises startups and scale-ups across multiple sectors.