Podcast
96: Lendi Group, David Hyman.
Episode 96 of Fintech Chatter Podcast and Dexter Cousins is joined by David Hyman, CEO and co-founder of Lendi Group.
David is one of Australia’s Fintech pioneers and he kindly shares his experience and wisdom in scaling businesses successfully.
It’s a welcome return to the show for David who last appeared on the show in May 2020, episode 8. Fast forward to May 2021, Lendi and Aussie Home Loans merged to form the Lendi Group.
The last we interviewed David, Lendi was Australia’s leading home loan platform with a team of 470 people, a loan book of $7.5 billion and a customer base of more than 25,000 Australians who had settled more than $12 billion in home loans.
Lendi Group – Australia’s biggest distributor of home loans outside the Big 4
Today, Lendi Group is home to the industry’s leading platform technology, a network of over 1200 brokers, a head office team of 600, a loan book in excess of $80 (eighty) billion and a retail footprint of more than 225 stores across the country.
Both the Aussie and Lendi brands enjoyed record-breaking performance in FY21.
Dexter chat’s to David about Lendi Group’s innovation in proprietary technology and the huge growth opportunities in 2022.
David also talks about Lendi’s approach to a running remote-first business at scale, with the added complexity of retail stores.
For more info on Lendi Group – https://www.lendi.com.au/
What happened next.
This episode was published in October 2021, five months after Lendi and Aussie Home Loans merged to form Lendi Group.
In September 2023 David came back with co-founder Sebastian Watkins for Lendi’s tenth anniversary. By then the group settled more than $30 billion of home loans a year from a loan book of about $100 billion, with around a thousand staff and roughly 7% of the Australian mortgage market. David stepped down as CEO in January 2026 and within weeks was building Mono AI, which he discussed on his fourth appearance on the show.
- The amazing story of Lendi Group (2023), with the full transcript
- David Hyman on Mono AI (2026)
- All Fintech Chatter episodes
