Published on the 27/01/2026 | Written by Newsdesk

AppWrap aims to help you keep up to date with an easy to read collection of news and snippets published by other leading tech media publications that we trust. AppWrap January 2026 27.01 Airwallex boss Jack Zhang says the fintech is at least two year

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AppWrap January 2026

27.01 Airwallex boss Jack Zhang says the fintech is at least two years away from a public listing, despite regular references to an IPO in 2026. Zhang’s comments, reported in StartupDaily, follow news last week that Austrac has ordered an audit of the company over AML/CTF concerns.

23.01 Manage My Health has warned that secondary actors may be impersonating the company and sending spam or phishing emails in the wake of the high profile hack of the online patient portal. The company says it has been granted an interim injunction from the High Court to prevent access, dissemination or publication of the impacted data by any third parties and says it is monitoring data leak websites and ready to issue takedown notices.

23.01 TikTok has finalised agreements with backers including Oracle, Silver Lake and Emirati company MGX to establish a US joint venture. Each of the three backers will hold a 15 percent stake in the company. ByteDance keeps a 19.9 percent share. The BBC reports the content recommendation algorithm has been licensed to Oracle – headed by Trump ally Larry Ellison – which already oversees US user data under a previous arrangement set up over security concerns. The deal will enable TikTok to continue operating in the US, but is likely to continue to be scrutinised, with some Democrats voicing concerns about the ties between Trump and TikTok’s new investor group could limit what gets shared on the platform.

22.01 Australia’s financial intelligence unit, Austrac has ordered an external auditor be appointed to assess whether fintech – and unicorn – Airwallex is complying with anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing. Austrac says it has ‘concerns’ about potential non-compliance including that Airwallex’s transaction monitoring program has not been ‘attuned to the full range of risks it faces’ and the company hasn’t demonstrated an acceptable understanding of who its customers are and what reporting may be required. The auditor must report findings within 180 days of appointment.

22.01 Hamilton’s Cloudland has acquired professional services tech provider CommArc for an undisclosed sum, in its fourth acquisition in as many years.

20.01 Kiwi legal tech startup Ivo has raised US$55m in a Series B funding round led by existing investor Blackbird. The company’s platform helps in-house legal teams review contracts. Ivo says customers include Uber, Shopify, Canva, Atlassian, Reddit and Pinterest, and the capital will support product development and scaling the company.

15.01 Kiwi email signature provider Crossware has bought Germany’s largest email signature provider, CI Solutions, in a multimillion-dollar deal. Crossware says the deal significantly scales its presence in the European union and establishes it as one of the leading email signature providers globally, processing more than five million emails every day.

13.01 Advertising is hitting the AI chatbots with ads starting to show up in Google’s ‘AI Mode’ in what the Washington Post says is likely to be just the beginning of more trial-and-error attempts this year. Google has been pushing a new type of ad in AI Mode to advertisers, OpenAI has also been looking at introducing advertising in ChatGPT and Perplexity attempted ads but pulled back last year – but has left the doors open to try again.

11.01 Around 70 percent of those impacted by the ManageMyHealth breach are based in Northland. Ransomware group Kazu has demanded US$60,000 after stealing hundreds of thousands of medical files. RNZ reports around 120,000 patients have had data stolen, with 80,000 of those based in Northland.

01.01 ManageMyHealth has been hacked, with ‘six to seven per cent’ of its approximately 1.8 million registered users potentially affected. The company says it has begun to identify users affected and will start notifying them within the next 48 hours.