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Scaling the Great China Payments Wall: The LatiPay Story.

April 13, 2017 by NZSA

Leigh Flounders standing in front of Latipay Logo The audience were very impressed to learn how in just 19 months LatiPay has become recognised as the ‘PayPal for Western merchants wanting to transact business with Chinese customers’.

Leigh drew upon two examples to highlight how the LatiPay system works for businesses – Convita who is selling New Zealand honey directly to Chinese consumers and Jucy Rentals who rent to Chinese visitors once they arrive in New Zealand. Credit cards are not commonly used by Chinese consumers, who prefer to do business via e-wallet systems.

LatiPay is the only compliant solution that provides customers access to the five main Chinese e-wallets WeChat, Alipay, JDPay, BaiduPay, Tenpay and nineteen main Chinese Banks. Latipay charge no fee to merchants because LatiPay’s strategy has been to sacrifice margin in order to quickly achieve scale.

Leigh and his small team have been focussing on gaining recognition and credibility in the Chinese market by securing awards in Australia and the States alongside developing partnership arrangements with Australian and Chinese banks.

Securing Singaporean venture capital funding has also been a priority since LatiPay’s inception. Leigh described the road to securing venture capital funding as being similar to travelling on an airport travelator – you get carried along and once you get on, you can’t get off, you just have to keep on going to your destination.

Visit latipay.net to find out more.

Kiwi artificial intelligence gets boost

December 9, 2016 by NZSA

An Auckland company founded by an academy award winner from Hollywood blockbuster Avatar has secured $US7.5 million to further its research into human-like computers.

The artificial intelligence company called Soul Machines will utilise University of Auckland research technology after gaining backing from Hong Kong investors.

Read more here .

Auckland’s UniServices sets innovation institute in China

December 9, 2016 by NZSA

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Auckland UniServices, the commercial arm of the University of Auckland, has set up an innovation institute in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, to further develop commercial opportunities for its research.

UniServices was offered a large building in the Hangzhou Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, the self-described Silicon Valley of China where major companies such as Motorola, Nokia and Siemens have set up research and development centres. The Chinese car company Geely and e-commerce giant the Alibaba Group were also founded there.

Read more here.

Entries open for 2017 NZ Hi-Tech Awards

December 9, 2016 by NZSA

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Entries are now open for the 2017 NZ Hi-Tech Awards, New Zealand’s premier technology event.

The Hi-Tech Awards recognise the achievers of the NZ Hi-Tech industry from the start-up and emerging categories through to the coveted PwC Company of the Year, which was won in 2016 by Vista Group.

Additional categories recognise excellence in the product sectors covering software, services, hardware, mobile, creative and Agritech, as well as Maori Innovation, which was a new category in 2016 and drew a record number of entrants.

Read more here .

AgileNZ Conference 2016

November 3, 2016 by NZSA

agileAgileNZ is the conference for New Zealand’s agile and software innovation community. Now in its fifth year and on track for 500 attendees , AgileNZ is now a major event for the NZ technology community.  There are six keynotes this year, along with a vast range of other international and national speakers:
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Services and digital products for Australian consumers – goods and services tax (GST) changes

October 31, 2016 by NZSA

If you supply services or digital goods to Australian consumers, recent changes to the way Australia taxes these transactions mean you may now need to register in Australia for the goods and services tax (GST).
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