OnMarket in the news

Today Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joined OnMarket BookBuilds CEO Ben Bucknell at the launch of the OnMarket direct bidding app, a free platform that allows you to buy IPOs and placements from your phone, tablet or desktop.

Malcolm Turnbull will this morning unveil a new process, claimed to be a world-first, whereby retail investors can get direct online access to new floats and share placements. It’s been devised by OnMarket BookBuilds, the disrupter which has so far raised more ...

When Malcolm Turnbull wrested the Australian prime ministership from Tony Abbott in September, he immediately pitched himself as a new breed of leader with a penchant for startups, although his track record as communications minister left some in doubt.

Ben Bucknell, chief executive officer at On-Market Bookbuilds, discusses his company's app that increases access to IPOs, how it works and the outlook for the sector. He speaks to Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat on "Trending Business."

Creators of On Market's new mobile app is promising retail investors access to IPOs, previously only available to big institutions. The app boasts it will cut out the middlemen, meaning less work for brokers.

Alex Galin writes for the Australian Shareholders Association Equity magazine about how investors can empower and encourage new and emerging financial technologies. She writes: "Technologies are being built to make the financial markets fairer ...

Fintech is beginning to disrupt the financial world as we know it. The financial industry is now more focused than ever on technological innovation than at any other time. OMB Founder Ben Bucknell told HuffPost Australia Fintech is all about technological ...

Ben Bucknell writes for Fintech Business after returning from a two week trip to Fintech Week sponsored by UK Trade & Investment. Ben writes: "the UK government has just rolled out the red carpet for the world’s elite fintech community, sending a clear signal that London is the global centre of fintech excellence."

NAB is not afraid of a stoush: it has simultaneously thrown down the gauntlet to its rival commercial banks and also the big investment banks by being the first of the big four to offer ­clients direct access to ASX Bookbuild, via its online trading arm, nabtrade.

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Australia has announced the names of 10 successful Australian fintech companies who will take part in a delegation to London this September, to coincide with London Fintech Week.

OnMarket BookBuilds is the digital upstart of the Australian broking industry, and eager to attract big deals in 2015. The platform has notable supporters, but faces resistance from the investment banking establishment. The company operates a digital platform that plugs ...