Bill Bennett

Nine-to-Noon

Was on RNZ Nine-to-Noon this morning talking about the tax that hurts New Zealand’s technology sector, the AI bubble burst and Google illegally abusing its monopoly.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/…

New Zealand’s overlooked billion-dollar industry

From my story in the NZ Herald:

“New Zealand’s financial technology sector is booming. Over the past decade, it has expanded at an annual compound growth rate of 32 per cent. That’s four times as fast as the overall tech sector.

That growth has taken the fintech sector to the point where it is roughly the same size as New Zealand’s wine industry.”

Read more at: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/…

If you are interested in my take on the Optus outage that brought much of Australia to a grinding halt, you can catch the replay of my RNZ Nights interview here:

www.rnz.co.nz/national/…

Feedback is welcome.