Fintech Chatter TV

By Dexter Cousins on 01/01/2022

Welcome to the first-ever Fintech Chatter TV show.

It’s a show where we invite friends from the Fintech community to connect, have a natter and discuss news, events, opinions, and a bit of gossip.

We’ll be bringing more shows like this to you over the next few months, so make sure you hit subscribe and get alerted when we post new shows.

2021 was a record-breaking year for Fintech.

Dexter Cousins is joined by three awesome guests and friends of Tier One People to talk about the year that was 2021 and their Fintech predictions for 2022.

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Rebecca Schot-Guppy: Ex-CEO of FinTech Australia and now Director at IAG’s Firemark Ventures.

Ben Ford: Head of Growth for Frollo, and owner of Fintech’s premier T-Shirt collection

Bosco Tan: Co-founder of one of Australia’s OG Fintech startups, Pocketbook and now an advisor and investor for the next generation of Fintech startups

Article written by Dexter Cousins
Founder of Tier One People and host of the Fintech Chatter Podcast.

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