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Investors are understandably feeling jittery about the sharemarket after a rocky January, as are companies looking to access public markets. In the US, not a single company went public in January, marking the first IPO-free month since 2011.

Market volatility has taken the shine off IPOs, but last year they provided higher gains than blue-chip stocks and market indices. Investors are understandably feeling jittery about the sharemarket after a rocky January, as are companies looking to access public markets.

It’s usually hard to identify which particular financial sector innovation represents a game changer or even a significant milestone, but the creation of a technology that allows you to bid directly for stock in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) from your phone has ...

Tech start-up firms and even some large banks are coming up with innovative ways to overhaul the traditional way of doing things, whether that’s to encourage the man or woman on the street to invest in a float or simply to change the channels through which shares ...

Alan Kohler interviews OnMarket BookBuilds CEO, Ben Bucknell on Talking Business for Qantas Radio. Alan is the founder of Business Spectator, a business news and financial commentary website. He is also the ABC's finance reporter and founder of the online investing publication Eureka Report.

All we seem to hear about fintech​ outfits is how they're nibbling away at the banks, but it's what they're doing for investors that I like. Fintech, short for financial technology, is the buzzword for companies that apply software to finance. Don't be put off by that. I call it a financial revolution.

Innovative business OnMarket BookBuilds has further expanded its services by launching its Join a Campaign section.

Hundred dollar bills aren’t usually found on the pavement. But in the world’s capital markets, at least, potentially hundreds of ­millions of dollars are routinely left lying around. Not by you or me, but by new and established ­companies seeking to raise equity capital.

Startup founders that participated in the recent fintech week in the UK have a blunt message for the Australian government: act now or lose even more talent overseas. Ten Australian startups were flown to London by UK Trade and Investment at the ...

HOLD the pepperoni. Australia’s biggest pizza chain is contemplating a new customer rewards scheme that could revolutionise our shopping habits — and potentially make us rich. Forget discount vouchers, meal deal upgrades and buy-two-get-one-free offers; ...

Last Wednesday 'innovation' Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull helped launch OnMarket - the world's first app for ASX IPOs and placements. Independent creative Agency, The Taboo Group, has developed a video to drive awareness of the ...

Fintech business OnMarket BookBuilds (OMB) has launched a mobile application with the aim of providing SMSF investors with more opportunities to take part in initial public offerings (IPO) and placements.

It's still true that the world of bookbuilds, share placements and equity capital raisings remains largely the privilege of an elite few of brokers and investment bankers helping themselves and their high net worth or professional clients.

Mr Turnbull spoke to a room filled with fintech industry luminaries at the official launch of the OnMarket Bookbuild app last week. The Prime Minister entered the first trade into the OnMarket application (which allows retail investors to participate in IPOs) on ...

Malcolm Turnbull was more than happy yesterday to fulfil a promise he made when he was a mere communications minister when he helped unveil OnMarket Bookbuilds’ new mobile phone app designed to allow retail investors better access to floats and capital raisings.

OnMarket, a new mobile app launched yesterday will give investors free and open access to IPOs and placements in Australia and New Zealand without having to go through a broker. CEO of On-Market BookBuilds, Ben Bucknell, said they wanted ...

Hats off to billionaire software dude Michael Cannon-Brookes and his passionate dedication to the Aussie tech space. “It’s a huge priority for us as a company,” the Atlassian founder told The Australianthis week. “We spend a huge amount ...

The Prime Minister was asked about the government's approach to creating a fintech hub in Australia at the launch of IPO and placements platform OnMarket Bookbuilds yesterday. "The tax system is the biggest set of levers that the government has ...

Sydney-based company OnMarket and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have co-launched a new fintech app which allows retail investors to access the Australian Securities Exchange’s infrastructure and submit bids for shares in companies.

‘Why does IPO stand for initial public offering when there is no element of an offer to the public?’, asked chief executive Ben Bucknell as he launched OnMarket alongside Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Considering the PM’s past as an executive of Goldman Sachs ...

Fintech business OnMarket BookBuilds (OMB) has launched a mobile application enabling investors to access initial public offerings (IPO) and placements via their smartphones. OnMarket alerts investors to all of the current IPOs on the ASX and provides ...

The Australian dollar powered higher after the Reserve Bank's announcement on Tuesday afternoon that its cash rate was being held at 2 per cent, but it is a dead cat bounce. Our currency has further to fall before the commodity price slump ends.

Australian retail investors will have greater access to IPOs via an app launched today, its inventors claim. OnMarket provides access to the same IPOs, with the same terms, as institutional investors its designers at OnMarket Bookbuilds say.