In episode 89 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins is joined by Stuart Ward, Senior Director for Financial Services and Go-To-Market Strategy for Salesforce.
Salesforce is a global leader in CRM and SAAS. Their customer360 platform and financial services cloud is helping Australia's financial services industry get closer to their customers.
With more than 2 decades of banking, tech and marketing experience Stuart joins me to share his insights on how Big Tech is playing an ever-growing role in Fintech.
Aussie Fintech Athena, Volt Bank, Frollo partner with Salesforce. And last year Salesforce made a strategic investment in open banking Fintech, Basiq.
Stuart shares his views on what he sees as the BIG opportunities coming from CDR.
For more information on Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/au/
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