Airwallex

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

The world as we know it is no longer the same. Changes now occur in days and months, not years. The digital revolution is here, and Airwallex is at the centre, facilitating the transformation of businesses from offline to online, from local to global.

Our story

Airwallex was inspired by real-life experiences of running our own business and expert knowledge of how money moves.

Out of their love for good coffee, engineering-banking friends Jack Zhang and Max Li started Tukk & Co, a café in Melbourne. As small business owners, they recognised first-hand the impact of high FX fees and banking costs on their profit margins, and sought out to build a better solution for businesses operating cross-border, improving on the constraints of the current global financial system.

Airwallex was founded by Jack and Max, together with friends from the University of Melbourne, Lucy Liu and Xijing Dai.

What drives us

• Our mission: With technology at our core, we build global financial infrastructure and applications to empower businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.

• Our vision: To be the global economic infrastructure to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders.

• Our purpose: To connect the entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with borderless opportunities in every corner of the world.

We strive to live by our six guiding principles

1. Customers First: Our customers are why we are here. Knowing them, keeping them and consistently delivering a superior experience is the only way we can fulfill our mission.

2. Intellectual Honesty: We want to constantly seek the truth, to be open, constructive and transparent, approaching every problem with data and facts, not conjecture and opinion.

3. Obsessive Curiosity: We always start by asking why and seek to understand. We have a hunger for knowledge, seek challenges that are insatiably interesting and always consider if there are better ideas.

4. Craftsmanship: We are about product and engineering excellence. We create products and solutions with passion, finesse and meticulous attention-to-detail to deliver the best customer experience and outcome.

5. Inspire and Be Inspired: We are a melting pot of cultures and ideas, and we recognise that happy, healthy and highly-functioning teams are inclusive and diverse. We celebrate success, share knowledge, learn and grow together.

6. Make Impact: The reason we show up every day is our desire to make an impact and create a better world with what we do. We have one purpose in mind - to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders and scale the digital economy.