Boodle is a purpose-built personal financial management (PFM) app designed by Founder Michelle Green to help women take control of their finances. In addition to open banking enabled bank account aggregation and income & expenditure tracking, the app will offer personalised insights and goal setting, plus access to a community of like-minded women for additional support.A key feature of the app is lightening the mental load by securely bringing all of your finances into one place.Boodle has just opened its waitlist for Australia ahead of its launch in 2024.  The app will launch later in New Zealand. https://boodleco.com/

Physical possession of identity documents helps prove a person is who they claim to be. But criminals can steal personal information via data breaches - or purchase on the dark web – and open online bank accounts, digital wallets and crypto trading apps. Data Zoo is fighting back with a US patented, global solution to this digital identity problem.  The innovative elements of the proprietary solution include layered verification to create a compound digital identity - and a real-time dynamic trust scoring system - by combining government-issued documents with online identity sources and other relevant details like open banking data.

The Fintech sector is battening down the hatches as rising interest rates & inflation have put the brakes on investment in the space.However, in amongst the gloom there are some positive stories emerging.Parpera - the banking app for sole traders and small businesses - recently re-launched with a raft of new solutions, having previously been forced into pausing operations as their core banking providing ceased trading.At the recent Fintech Australia 'Intersekt' conference, Parpera founder Daniel Cannizarro sat down with Ben 'Fintech' Ford to discuss both his own & Parpera's roller-coaster journey to date.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65SSTdt_Zc&list=PL4ITSyTPE_IvPIXDNcQ4Fnwvu-xpIhRXM&index=37