The 25-year legacy of local payments platform BPAY and US rival PayPal count for little in the fast-moving fintech space with buy-now-pay-later market leader Afterpay now better known by a majority of Australians according to the latest Roy Morgan Digital Payments Report. The report found that 17.5 million Australians aged 14+ (82.8%) are now aware of buy-now-pay-later… Read more »
More than 1.07 million Australians now own at least one cryptocurrency, according to new research from Roy Morgan That’s around 5% of the adult population. While Bitcoin and Ethereum are investor favourites, niche coins such as Ripple, Cardano, Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Solana, Binance Coin, Litecoin, Cronos, Polygon and other are part of the mix, with… Read more »
The relentless march of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startups such as Afterpay and Zip into the retail landscape has been confirmed in new research by Roy Morgan that found nearly 60% of Australians, 12.3 million people, are aware of the payment services. The figures in the latest Roy Morgan Digital Payments Report are up 22.1% points in just… Read more »
First mover Uber has managed to capture 90% of Australia’s ridesharing market, a Roy Morgan study has revealed, but competition is expected to heat up as Chinese rival DiDi enters the Sydney market next month. When Uber first arrived in 2013, the service was illegal, but managed to establish its dominance before ridesharing was… Read more »
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