FinTech Australia Podcast
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -The FinTech Australia Podcast takes listeners on a deep dive across the Fintech Industry in Australia, focusing on the challenges, opportunities and big stories our community faces.
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Fintech Scotland and Fintech Australia Collaboration
March 01, 2024 01:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBIn this very special episode we chat to Michael Paris from Fintech Scotland. Fintech has emerged as a transformative force in the financial sector, offering innovative solutions that not only enhance financial services but also address broader societal issues, including environmental sustainability, customer vulnerability, and overall financial well-being. Those objectives are heavily featured in the Research & Innovation Roadmap published by FinTech Scotland 2 years ago. In Scotland the ...
FinTech for Net Zero - Tim Poskitt Startupbootcamp
March 01, 2024 01:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this Podcast Tim Poskitt talks about his new role at Startupbootcamp and their involvement in Fintech for Net Zero. FinTech Australia has launched a new event aimed at showcasing sustainability-focused fintech companies. Held in partnership with The Australian Trade and Investment Commission, Startupbootcamp and BDO, FinTech for Net Zero will play host to a panel discussion on fintech’s role in managing the challenge of climate change. Several impact fintechs including Slyp, Footprint...
FinTech for Net Zero - Tim Poskitt Startup Bootcamp
March 01, 2024 01:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this Podcast Tim Poskitt talks about his new role at Startup Bootcamp and their involvement in Fintech for Net Zero. FinTech Australia has launched a new event aimed at showcasing sustainability-focused fintech companies. Held in partnership with The Australian Trade and Investment Commission, StartUpBoottcamp and BDO, FinTech for Net Zero will play host to a panel discussion on fintech’s role in managing the challenge of climate change. Several impact fintechs including Slyp, Footpri...
Business Spotlight #9 - RDC - Ada Guan
February 12, 2024 04:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBIn this week's episode we chat to Ada Guan from RDC. (Rich Data Co). Ada talks about the early days of RDC, their growth, the importance of AI as well as a Fintech Australia story which assisted them to a trip overseas. RDC aims to accelerate innovation in business lending to deliver transformational and sustainable long term business success for customers.
Business Spotlight #8 - Matt Vitale - Birchal
February 06, 2024 04:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBMatt Vitale from Birchal joined the Fintech Australia podcast this week to talk about CSF and his company Birchal. Matt goes in to the details around what crowd funding is, how Birchal have operated, the challenges, the messaging and the funding. Matt also tooks about a recent report where over $70m was invested in to CSF campaigns in 2023.
Business Spotlight #7 - Stripe - Karl Durrance MD AUNZ
December 10, 2023 23:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBIn the business spotlight series we chat to Karl Durrance from Stripe. Karl delves in to Stripe's local presence about how they work with businesses, their big hairy audacious goals and other ways they are present here locally. Karl also unpacks a a report called "What it takes for businesses to compete in the digital economy " - and the different hurdles, problems solved and examples of ways businesses are accepting payments.
Business Spotlight Series #6 - Jeroen van Son - Verrency
November 13, 2023 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.6 MBJeroen van Son joins the business spotlight series to talk about Verrency. Verrency is a Loyalty Services provider, enabling rapid and cost effective digital payments innovation for banks, card issuers, and payment processors. Jereon talks about their products, the market size, the importance of education as well as the current state of the fintech market.
Business Spotlight Series #5 - Mambu Fernando Zandona
October 17, 2023 04:00 - 14 minutes - 9.92 MBIn this episode we chat to the newly minted Fernando Zandona. After serving as interim CEO since June - having previously held the role of Chief Product and Technology Officer at Mambu - Fernando will now spearhead the business as it enters its next phase of growth. Fernando talks about why they are in Australia, the opportunities, their services as well as what he thinks of fintech here locally only arriving recently.
Business Spotlight Series #4 - nVest with Sivan Atad
August 21, 2023 01:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBIn our 4th Episode of the Business Spotlight series we interview Sivan Atad to talk about nVest. nVest is an enterprise-grade fractional trading B2B platform. It is bringing embedded investment experiences to Australia retail investors. Sivan talks about his experience as a founder, the recent win of the SmartCompany's The Pitch, an early-stage startup competition and his plans for the future.
Andrew Walker - Nano Digital Lending Solutions Mission to New York on Austrade's Fintech Landing Pad
August 11, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBToday we chat to Andrew Walker who talks about his recent US adventures - including the Fintech Nexus conference via the Austrade Fintech Landing Pad. We chat about: - What he did in New York and their your business ambitions in the US? - Some insights from the US home loan and lending space. - His experience working with Austrade - The Fintech Nexus conference in New York. - International expansion plans
Spotlight Series #3 - Visa
July 31, 2023 23:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBIn this week's episode we chatted to Anthony Jones - "AJ" - Head of Innovation and Partnerships, Australia New Zealand and South Pacific at Visa about Visa's involvement in the fintech ecosystem and how they are visible and connecting to fintechs. AJ also talks about their fast-track program and some of the other initiatives. This episode was recorded in Late June.
Business Spotlight Series #3 - Visa
July 31, 2023 23:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBIn this week's episode we chatted to Anthony Jones - "AJ" - Head of Innovation and Partnerships, Australia New Zealand and South Pacific at Visa about Visa's involvement in the fintech ecosystem and how they are visible and connecting to fintechs. AJ also talks about their fast-track program and some of the other initiatives. This episode was recorded in Late June.
Parpera's Fact Finding Mission in the UK & Europe
July 28, 2023 02:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBToday we chat to Daniel Cannizzaro Founder & CEO of Parpera about their recent fact finding mission to the UK and Europe! - About Parpera and the recent iteration - What he did in London/Amsterdam! - Learnings - Money2020! - International Expansion plans
CDR Month - A wrap!
July 14, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBJune 2023 CDR MONTH - A wrap - In this episode we interview the following regarding their involvement with CDR Month. Intro with Mathew Mytka, Regional Director Australia and New Zealand Financial Data and Technology Association Simeon Duncan Senior Manager, International Corporate Affairs at Intuit on why the sponsored, their uses cases and future predictions for CDR Rachel Bailes Head of Policy from the AIIA (Australian Information Industry Association) to recap the roundtable held i...
Business Spotlight Series #2 - Biza.io
June 26, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBToday we chat with Stuart Low , Founder and CEO of Biza.io Biza.io is the market leader in the Consumer Data Right, Open Banking, Open Energy, and the emerging Open Data ecosystem. We cover all topics of CDR (being CDR month) the different application use cases as well as talking about the Finnies where Biza.io took out the Excellence in RegTech award. Stuart was also nominated for Outstanding Fintech Leader of the Year.
Business Spotlight Series #1 - Biza.io
June 26, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBToday we chat with Stuart Low , Founder and CEO of Biza.io Biza.io is the market leader in the Consumer Data Right, Open Banking, Open Energy, and the emerging Open Data ecosystem. We cover all topics of CDR (being CDR month) the different application use cases as well as talking about the Finnies where Biza.io took out the Excellence in RegTech award. Stuart was also nominated for Outstanding Fintech Leader of the Year.
The finnies - 3 winners and their story!
June 21, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBIn today's episode we profile 3 finnies winners from the recent Fintech Australia Finnies evening. Here a short story about each , the process to apply and how winning the awards have helped them! 1. Excellence in FinTech Support Services Winner - Astero (This award recognises the support services that have provided the highest level of assistance to fintechs in their operation and growth or a business that helps drive the growth of the fintech community through physical infrastructure (sp...
The Finnies - 3 winners and their story!
June 21, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBIn today's episode we profile 3 Finnies winners from the recent Fintech Australia Finnies evening. Here's a short story about each , the process to apply and how winning the awards have helped them! 1. Excellence in FinTech Support Services Winner - Astero (This award recognises the support services that have provided the highest level of assistance to fintechs in their operation and growth or a business that helps drive the growth of the fintech community through physical infrastructure (...
Business Spotlight Series #1 - HelpPay
May 25, 2023 23:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBIntroducing the new sub series from the Fintech Australia - the Business Spotlight. The series aims to profile members and to tell their story in a relaxed manner whilst also intertwining the connection to the ecosystem. The first episode is with Rowan Wilde - Co-Founder - HelpPay to talk about how the business started, the problem they are solving, the progress and the future plans. If you would like to be a part of this series - please reach out!
Joseph Healy - Judo Bank - The story, the books and the future
April 20, 2023 22:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBIn today's episode we chat with Joseph Healy from Judo Bank - we discuss the history of the bank, the growth , the progress and of course his book(s). Joseph has written four books - but the latest called "Black Belt, A masterclass for startup and entrepreneurs" brings together the learnings and insights and lessons such as clarity of purpose.
Alternative Investments in an uncertain macro environment
March 23, 2023 04:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBIn the latest Fintech Australia podcast we chat to Anto Joseph from Stropro about Alternative Investments. Anto discusses what they are, where Stropro fits in, where Australia sits compared to the rest of the world and how investors can access. Anto also talks about the recent SVB and Regional Bank happenings.
Weekly Summary 19 March 2023
March 19, 2023 22:00 - 2 minutes - 1.56 MBING Australia has launched “Everyday Round Up to Charity “– a charitable round up ⬆️ feature, enabling customers to round up eligible everyday card transactions 🛍️ to the nearest dollar or five dollars and donate the difference to a charity. ✅ Sydney-based fintech and proptech company Downsizer.com raised $3.75m in seed funding to help drive international expansion 🏡 🌎 MOGOPLUS launched a Mortgage Stress Predictor, a predictive 🔬insights solution to help banks & borrowers proactively mana...
Weekly Summary 12 March 2023
March 19, 2023 22:00 - 2 minutes - 1.73 MBSydney based Basiq has been acquired by Cuscal Limited , one of Australia’s largest independent providers of payments, banking and regulated data. ✅ Sydney based Till Payments announced 📣 they have raised $70 million in Series D funding to assist with "making payments smarter, faster, and more secure." Brisbane based digital bank Alex Bank has seen an increase in personal loan origination, by over 50% since the start of 2023. 📈 ASX listed Xero is planning to exit Waddle incurring a write...
The 4 Key Trends in Payments in 2023 - David Marsh from Endava
March 16, 2023 23:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBToday we chat to David Marsh from Endava about the recently released 4 key Trends in Payments - Real-time payments(RTP) The Rise of the Super Apps TheEvolution of Payments Acceptance Payment Orchestration/ Platform as a Service A fun listen for all fintechs to consider. To download the report please click here: bit.ly/endava-australia-report
Capturing the Moment - SVB discussion with Dom Pym, James Cameron, Marissa Warren and Jackie Vullinghs
March 14, 2023 02:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBToday we talk all things SVB with Dom Pym, James Cameron, Marissa Warren and Jackie Vullinghs to discuss the last 72 hours of thinking around SVB. This podcast was to capture a historic moment in time and for these leaders to share their learnings, their understanding of the situation and some lessons for founders.
Capturing the Moment - SVB discussion with Dom Pym, James Cameron, Marisa Warren and Jackie Vullinghs
March 14, 2023 02:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBToday we talk all things SVB with Dom Pym, James Cameron, Marisa Warren and Jackie Vullinghs to discuss the last 72 hours of thinking around SVB. This podcast was to capture a historic moment in time and for these leaders to share their learnings, their understanding of the situation and some lessons for founders.
Weekly Summary 6 March 2023
March 06, 2023 05:00 - 2 minutes - 1.75 MBFintech in Australia - Weekly Summary 5/3/2023 March 5, 2023 All the headlines for the week to keep one eye on the happenings of Fintech in Australia 👇 Melbourne based Small business admin platform Thriday partnered 🔗 with Visa to allows small businesses to take advantage of automated banking, accounting, & tax features. 🗂️ Gold Coast based Nimble Australia Pty Ltd acquired education 🎓focused lender ZeeFi to add to their existing loan book 📕 Employment Hero launched “Swag” where streaml...
Weekly Summary 26 February 2022
February 28, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.62 MB* Sydney based DataMesh Group raised $30m in their Series A round with NAB Ventures, 1835i & Deutsche Bank participating in the round. 💰 * Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has said their digital bank Up now has 613,000 customers 🖥️ and $1.3 billion in deposits at the end of the half. Up Home 🏠 - their mortgage product has settled $38 million in home loans. * Zip Co reported some metrics : TTV 🛍️: $4.9b Customers 💻: 7.3m ,Transactions 👾: 42.2m Merchants 🏪: 97,500 . The company aims to be “group ...
Progressive Modernisation with Daryn Griggs
February 20, 2023 04:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBIn this episode, Chris Titley chats to Daryn Griggs, Managing Director - APAC of Episode Six. We delve in to legacy banking systems, the advantages and challenges of cloud based banking as well as the opportunity at large. Payments, Core banking infrastructure , card issuance and the adoption of mobile technology are all topics we cover in this podcast.
Weekly Summary 19 February 2023
February 20, 2023 04:00 - 2 minutes - 1.41 MB• Gold coast based Send Payments raised $11.5m in a Series B round 💵 to accelerate opportunities in Australia & offshore 🌎 •Brisbane based ASX listed Change Financial secured A$6.9m in new fundjng from US-based fintech entrepreneur & investor Michael Giles 👋🏻 •Sydney based Shift raised 💰 $27m to help scale their receivables & to make further investment in tech 💻 and data 💿 ✅ • Experian announced the appointment of data aggregation and analytics platform Envestnet | Yodlee as its official...
Weekly Summary 12 February 2022
February 13, 2023 01:00 - 1 minute - 1010 KB• Barry Kogan, Jonathan Henry and Rob Smith, partners of McGrathNicol were appointed Joint and Several Receivers and Managers (Receivers and Managers) of ASX listed Openpay 🗂️ • Qantas launched “Qantas Money Home Loan” powered by Adelaide based Tic:Toc 🏠🛫 • Sydney based Bridgit partnered 🤝 with outsource Financial . This marks the latest aggregator partnership for Bridgit and expands its total network to more than 3400 brokers. 🔗outsource Financial (outsource), alone, works with more than ...
Weekly Summary 23 February 2022
February 13, 2023 01:00 - 1 minute - 1010 KB• Barry Kogan, Jonathan Henry and Rob Smith, partners of McGrathNicol were appointed Joint and Several Receivers and Managers (Receivers and Managers) of ASX listed Openpay 🗂️ • Qantas launched “Qantas Money Home Loan” powered by Adelaide based Tic:Toc 🏠🛫 • Sydney based Bridgit partnered 🤝 with outsource Financial . This marks the latest aggregator partnership for Bridgit and expands its total network to more than 3400 brokers. 🔗outsource Financial (outsource), alone, works with more than ...
Fintech and Employee wellness
January 23, 2023 06:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBIn the first episode of 2023 - we chat to Brett Turley from Bit Leave. Brett shares his story from trips to Afghanistan to becoming a fintech founder and why he is on a mission to help employees. We chat about annual leave, employee wellness, long service leave and the opportunities fintechs have to be embedded in the workforce.
Weekly Summary 18 December 2022 with Chris Titley and Rachel Hopping
December 19, 2022 04:00 - 10 minutes - 7.14 MBIn today's podcast Chris Titley and Rachel Hopping talk about the week that was in fintech. Rachel has just joined FA in her role of Head of Strategic Partnerships. We talk about how this role came about as well as why she is excited about 2023! This will be the last FA podcast for 2022 - we hope all members have a safe and relaxing break and we will see you (on the airwaves) in 2023!
Scan and Pay - a new shift?
December 16, 2022 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBToday we chat with Karthik Srinivasan from Ziksu about Scan and Pay. We've seen large adoption offshore about QR codes - but will Australia also adopt this shift? Ziksu is a company involved in this sector and Karthik chats about the methods, the ups and downs and existing trends in fintech.
Weekly Summary 11 December 2022
December 12, 2022 04:00 - 1 minute - 1.05 MB- Sydney based Livewire Markets acquired Market Index to combine analysis 🔬from Australia's leading investment professionals with extensive market data 📊research tools and scans.🗂️ - Westpac announced they will invest 🗂️ US$30 million in to ShopBack that will allow credit & debit card 💳 customers to access offers via a dedicated Westpac page in the ShopBack app 📲 & website. • Brisbane based YouPay partnered with My Room - Children's Cancer Charity to give affected children the ability to ...
The Smart Contract and Digital Currencies
December 12, 2022 01:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBHannah Glass , Senior Associate King & Wood Mallesons joins us for a chat. KWM’s specialist team is at the forefront of legal and technological developments in blockchain technology, having worked with governments, banks, industry bodies and start-ups around the world. Hannah chats about smart contracts, application use, the recent events with cryptocurrency , consensus mechanisms, data, money and a lot more!
zk snarks and the missing Web 4
December 09, 2022 01:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBToday we chat with Lisa Wade CEO of Digital X. DigitalX is a blockchain financial company innovating at the frontiers of Web3.0. with a sustainable focus via a commitment to the WEF ESG and Stakeholder Capital framework and RegTech innovations such as Drawbridge. Lisa talks about the recent Cryptocurrency volatility, utility use cases, stable v unstable currencies, Web 3, Web 5 , zk snarks , validation of data and much much more!
Australia and the USA - Cross border fintech opportunities
December 07, 2022 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBOn Tuesday we chatted with Scott Heyes, who is the Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Partner of Mendoza Ventures, a Boston based but location agnostic early stage and growth Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture capital firm. Mendoza Ventures is the proud recipient of the 2021 Investor of the Year Community Award from Startup Boston. Scott chats about cross border opportunites, particularly as an Australian living offshore and the need for specialisation. Feel free to reac...
Weekly Summary 4 December 2022
December 05, 2022 02:00 - 1 minute - 1.13 MB* Melbourne based FrankieOne announced 📣 they raised $23m as part of an extension of their Series A to take the total funding for the round to $45m. 💰✅ * Commonwealth Bank partnered with Paydock for the launch of “Powerboard” / a “plug in” 🔌for merchants to access payment methods through a single platform. 🍽️ * Nauggets partnered with Azupay to help with instant and automatic payments in Buying, saving and spending 📲 gold ⭐️ * ASX listed Payright announced a capital raising 💵 to raise up ...
Weekly Summary 27 November 2022
November 28, 2022 03:00 - 1 minute - 980 KB5 bite sized pieces of information from the week that was in Fintech here in Australia.
Weekly Summary 27 November 2022
November 28, 2022 03:00 - 1 minute - 980 KB5 bite sized pieces of information from the week that was in Fintech here in Australia.
Operational Leverage... the new buzz word?
November 23, 2022 04:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this podcast we chat to Patrick Coghlan CEO of Creditor Watch about the background of his business, their recent acquisition of Debtor Daddy and some views on further M&A in the sector. Could 2023 could be the year of consolidation for fintechs?
Operational Leverage... the new buzz word?
November 23, 2022 04:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIn this podcast we chat to Patrick Coghlan CEO of Creditor Watch about the background of his business, their recent acquisition of Debtor Daddy and some views on further M&A in the sector. Could 2023 could be the year of consolidation for fintechs?
Double shot v Two Flat Whites
November 15, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBIn the latest episode we chat to Mandeep Sandhu , Country Lead, Australia and New Zealand at Personetics about PFM (Personal Financial Management) and it's application use here locally v global offshore markets. We chat about how sophisticated PFM's are - what they can achieve and what they as the hurdles and barriers in some situations. We talk about budgeting, financial literacy as well as overall behaviours when it comes to money.
EY FinTech Australia Census 2022 - Recording
November 14, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBWe've uploaded the recording of the EY FinTech Australia Census Webcast 2022 This was a live recording featuring the following speakers on the event : Hon Ed Husic MP Member for Chifley Federal Minister for Industry and Science Malia Forner (moderator) EY Partner Government Incentives and Oceania Start-up & Entrepreneurship Leader May Lam EY Partner Financial Services Technology Consulting David Camerlengo Head of technology and Manufacturing CoE, Australian Trade & Investment Commissi...
EY FinTech Australia Census 2022 - Recording
November 14, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBWe've uploaded the recording of the EY FinTech Australia Census Webcast 2022 This was a live recording featuring the following speakers on the event : Hon Ed Husic MP Member for Chifley Federal Minister for Industry and Science Malia Forner (moderator) EY Partner Government Incentives and Oceania Start-up & Entrepreneurship Leader May Lam EY Partner Financial Services Technology Consulting David Camerlengo Head of technology and Manufacturing CoE, Australian Trade & Investment Commissi...
Remember your pin ?
November 02, 2022 23:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBIn this episode we chat with Vinnie D'Alessandro from ASX listed Change Financial about the rise in card payments globally (particularly within Australia) and where Australia sits. We chat all things wallets, QR, Pins as well the advancement of technology from larger more non traditional finance companies. Vinnie also talks KYC and we chat about some recent musings from Money 2020.
Remember your pin ?
November 02, 2022 23:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBIn this episode we chat with Vinnie D'Alessandro from ASX listed Change Financial about the rise in card payments globally (particularly within Australia) and where Australia sits. We chat all things wallets, QR, Pins as well the advancement of technology from larger more non traditional finance companies. Vinnie also talks KYC and we chat about some recent musings from Money 2020.
Helping Angels Fly
October 31, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBIn this episode we dissect Angel investing in Australia - for investors and importantly fintech founders. We chat with Cheryl Mack - who helps angel investors build their own portfolio deal-by-deal alongside notable lead investors via her company Aussie Angels. Cheryl talks about the opportunities, the risks and how it can be used as a sound investment option for founders as syndicates grow in popularity.