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Tyro Payments
Tyro Payments Limited (Tyro) is an Australian fintech, financial institution (neobank) specialising in merchant Credit card, credit, Debit card, debit and EFTPOS Acquiring bank, acquiring. History Tyro was founded in 2003 by Peter Haig, Andrew Rothwell and Paul Wood as MoneySwitch Ltd. Tyro was the first new entrant into the Australian EFTPOS business since 1996. It was the second company in Australia to be granted a Specialist Credit Card Institution (SCCI) licence after GE Capital. In 2012, Tyro exceeded $3.5 billion of card transaction volume. On 1 March 2016, Tyro completed an equity capital raising of $100,127,532.00 at a price per share of $1.0361 led by Tiger Global, TDM Asset Management, and Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. In Financial Year 2016, Tyro grew to $8.6 billion of transaction volume, a growth of 26% compared to the prior year. In the first half of Financial Year 2017, Tyro processed $5.3 billion in payments, a growth rate of 23%, and generated r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
