126: Liam Millward, Instant

In episode 126 of Fintech Chatter Dexter is joined by Liam Millward, CEO and Co-Founder of Instant.

About Liam Millward

At the time of recording, Liam was only 18 years old, the youngest ever guest on Fintech Chatter.

Dexter chats to Liam about his experiences as a Fintech founder still in his teens and the challenges he has faced in building a Fintech with no experience or network.

It's a fascinating and frank conversation with a truly talented and driven founder. Liam show's that age is just an attitude.

About Instant

Instant's mission is to build the future of a frictionless economy, transforming billions of complex checkouts, into 1-tap shopping experiences globally.

They create a world where the experience of checkout is effortless, anywhere and everywhere across the internet.

Instant has raised over $2.2m in venture capital, as one of Australia’s biggest pre-seed funding rounds known to date, led by Blackbird, alongside TEN13, Reinventure, Larry Diamond and more.

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Founded by Dexter Cousins in 2016, Tier One People is on a mission to help Australia become the world leader in Fintech innovation.

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Tier One People helps companies like Revolut, TrueLayer and 10x build founding teams for launch in Australia. 

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124: Datamesh, Mark Nagy

Dexter Cousins is joined by Mark Nagy, CEO and Founder of Datamesh for episode 124 of Fintech Chatter.

As CEO of Datamesh, Mark Nagy brings over 30 years of experience in payments technology. A proven innovator of new technologies Mark has founded, built and profitably exited three technology companies.

Dexter chats to Mark about the recent partnership between Datamesh and Crypto.com and how the world of crypto, blockchain and payments are converging at a rapid pace. Mark also shares his thoughts on leadership, payments, capital raising and managing a business through economic cycles.

About DataMesh

DataMesh Group is an Australian-based payments technology provider revolutionising the current system used by banks, acquirers, and merchants across the globe.

DataMesh delivers next-generation, fully integrated payment capabilities, through its proprietary EMV-compliant financial switching platform (UnifyTM).

Unify is the world’s most modern and powerful cloud and terrestrial-based financial switching solution available in the market today.

Datamesh has commenced the global rollout of its platform, creating a worldwide, interconnected network of processing capabilities that will be offered as a white-label or SAAS model.

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Fintech News Today

Welcome to your latest Fintech News round-up. 

Tune in to hear Stuart Low, Founder & CEO of Biza.io chat to  Dexter about their latest investment round.

The home lending space continues to provide growth opportunities for Fintech

With the announcement of 2 partnerships this week between Sherlock & AFG and, Effi & AD Group.

As Crypto regulation draws nearer ...

The Albanese government announced their intent to begin the process of Token mapping.

Regulation of crypto is a message echoed by the UN for developing nations. 

Mastercard has partnered with Ebonex to allow purchases in crypto.

Crypto.com partners with Datamesh to enable the purchase of fuel with crypto.

Other Fintech News This Week

Shopify is the latest to venture into the lending space with the launch of Shopify Capital in Australia.

Bank of Queensland has now gone live on the Temenos Banking Cloud.

Swyftx has had a 21% staff reduction as tough economic conditions take their toll. 

Fintech Hiring

Ben Lyons (Ex Prospa)has joined our friends at Cape as their new Chief Revenue Officer. 

Brian Collins announced his departure from Startup Bootcamp and his Director seat at Fintech Australia.

Tickets for Intersekt festival, 7&8 Sept are now available. 

Latest Fintech Chatter podcast with Cath Whitaker, CEO of SelfWealth

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122: SelfWealth - Cath Whitaker

In ep 122 Dexter chats to Cath Whitaker, CEO of Selfwealth.

ASX listed Selfwealth runs Australia's most popular low-cost share trading platform.

Based out of Melbourne, Selfwealth is leading the way in stock market investment for everyday Australians.

SelfWealth is one of the very few Fintech's truly competing with Australia's Big Four banks and currently sits 4th in the market in terms of customers.

SelfWealth was taken to a successful IPO in late 2017 and continues to deliver value to shareholders. 

About Cath Whitaker

With a career spanning across the globe, Cath shares her experiences as an international Fintech leader. She shares her insights on

- Managing the delicate balance of keeping shareholders, customers and people happy
- Making the transition from corporate to scaleup CEO
- What Australia can do better to compete on a global scale

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Founded by Dexter Cousins in 2016, Tier One People is on a mission to help Australia become the world leader in Fintech innovation.

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And series A+ / ASX Listed Aussie Fintech like Lendi, Afterpay and 86 400 hire executive talent capable of delivering growth and scale. 

If you are building a world-class Fintech venture and need help in hiring tier-one people contact us

Blockchain Weekly

Welcome to Blockchain news, a weekly roundup and dissection of the Big news headlines across blockchain and digital assets.

Dexter Cousins is joined by Blockchain leader of the year and Founder of Genesis Block, Chloe White.

Chloe and Dexter cover the latest Blockchain and digital asset headlines.

Reserve Bank and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre to Explore Use Cases for CBDC

Is this a case of innovation theatre? Is there a real need for a CBDC in Australia?

What is the chance of an Australian CBDC becoming a real thing?

ASIC Survey - 44% of Retail Investors Hold Crypto Assets

What does this mean for regulation in Australia?

Ethereums Final Testnet Merge Goes Live

What does the Ethereum merge mean? What impact will it have on Ethereum moving forward?

What are some of the risks, especially if there is a fork on POW and POS?

How likely is it this will go ahead in September?

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash

What are the implications here for anyone who has used Tornado Cash?

What does it mean for regulation?

How does the US or any government sanction a piece of code?

What could be the potential washout from this move?

Other Blockchain Weekly News

Crypto exchange Huobi looks for a buyer. 

Reports that Leon Li, the founder and CEO of Huobi Global, is in talks with investors to sell his majority stake in the cryptocurrency exchange, 

SBF and Justin Sun are said to be likely buyers.

Crypto Moguls Compete for Huobi Majority Stake: Report

Blackrock and Coinbase are partnering to offer a spot Bitcoin trust

BlackRock has seen substantial interest in crypto from their clients despite the market’s steep downturn

Its new bitcoin trust follows a deal to connect Blackrocks Aladdin platform to Coinbase Prime

BlackRock Launches Spot Bitcoin Private Trust After Coinbase Partnership

 

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121: Stake - Dan Silver

In episode 121 of Fintech Chatter Podcast, Dexter Cousins chats to Dan Silver, COO and co-founder of Stake. 

What is Stake App?

Stake is a share trading app launched in July 2017 by Matt Leibowitz and Dan Silver with the ambition to open up Wall St to the world.

Since launching, Stake has amassed over 450,000 customers across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Brazil by spearheading commission-free brokerage.

The Stake App offers investors access to over 8,000 stocks across the US and ASX markets through a sophisticated and seamless platform.

Stake has grown to 135 staff and is booking $20 million in revenue a year. Stake recently completed its $90 million Series A funding from Tiger Global and DST Global Partners.

Dexter chats to Dan about his experience of giving up a corporate career and launching his own business. Dan shares his lessons on scaling, leadership, resilience, global expansion, bootstrapping and capital raising.

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119: WeMoney Dan Jovevski

In episode 119 of Fintech Chatter Podcast, Dexter Cousins is joined by Dan Jovevski, CEO and founder of WeMoney.

About WeMoney

WeMoney is a social financial wellness platform aimed at helping people achieve their financial goals.

Since starting in 2020 WeMoney has built a strong community of users and has more than 300,000 downloads. And in 2021 WeMoney won the coveted People's Choice Award for Emerging Fintech at the Finnies Awards.

This week they announced an AU$7m capital raise to help scale the business and develop new products.

About Dan Jovevski

Dan is a second-time founder, having founded, scaled and exited his first FinTech - SwitchMyLoan.com.au back in 2016.

Dan shares some of his secrets on building a purpose/community-led Fintech. A little tip, it takes more than just a Discord group 😉

Dexter asks Dan about the experience the second time around and what he has done differently. They also discuss a recent trip to the US and the key differences between launching a FIntech in Aus vs North America.

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About Tier One People

Founded by Dexter Cousins in 2016, Tier One People is on a mission to help Australia become the world leader in Fintech innovation.

Tier One People helps companies like Revolut, TrueLayer and 10x build founding teams for launch in Australia. 

And series A+ / ASX Listed Aussie Fintech like Lendi, Afterpay and 86 400 hire executive talent capable of delivering growth and scale. If you are building a world-class Fintech venture and need help in hiring tier-one people contact us

118: Tic:Toc - Lisa Virgo

In Episode 118 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins is joined by Lisa Virgo, Chief People Officer at Tic:Toc Homeloans. They talk about the huge benefits of having People and Culture on the founding team.

About Tic:Toc

Tic:Toc, is a platform Fintech company based in Adelaide, South Australia - with a growing presence in Sydney.  Founded in 2015, but launched to the public in July 2017, Tic:Toc offers automated digital home loans to consumers while selling its automation technology to other lending businesses. 

Lisa has been emersed in the journey of Tic:Toc from the early days, from a start-up with 9 employees to scaling the headcount of approximately 130 employees. 

Dexter talks to Lisa about the lessons they have learned along the way, including:

- How P&C delivers the growth strategy for the CEO/Founder
- The importance of values from day one
- How Tic:Toc have managed remote working
- Avoiding the growing pains
- Setting principles around salaries and remuneration
- Attracting great talent when you don't have much money or a recognised brand
- Not using job descriptions
- Getting rid of performance reviews
- Overcoming talent shortages by identifying and developing people with potential

There's some incredible advice in this podcast delivered in a very honest and candid way, which will hopefully resonate with many founders and Fintech leaders.

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Founded by Dexter Cousins in 2016, Tier One People is on a mission to help Australia become the world leader in Fintech innovation.

Tier One People helps companies like Revolut, TrueLayer and 10x build founding teams for launch in Australia. 

And series A+ / ASX Listed Aussie Fintech like Lendi, Afterpay and 86 400 hire executive talent capable of delivering growth and scale. 

If you are building a world-class Fintech venture and need help in hiring tier-one people, you can reach us info@tieronepeople.com

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117: Dom Pym on Up and Euphemia

In Episode 117 of Fintech Chatter podcast, Dexter Cousins is joined by Fintech Leader of the Year, Dom Pym.

Dexter first met Dom Pym in 2018 as Up went into Beta phase - He made the bold claim back then that Dom was the Steve Jobs of Aussie Fintech.

Since then Up has become a world-class digital bank and Dom has had a massive impact on Fintech Down Under. 

As a co-founder of Up and Ferocia Dom has also made successful exits from Pin Payments and Nutmeg.

Ferocia was recently acquired by Bendigo Bank giving Dom and business partner Grant Thomas the dream exit. 

While Dom still is very much involved in UP, he recently announced his family office, Euphemia, which promises to support the next wave of startups. It’s a unique approach and one that puts people and values at the very core of the investment thesis.

In part one Dexter chats to Dom about UP and in Part two they talk about Euphemia's multi-generational strategy. With an ambitious goal to create real change for Australians, addressing climate change, diversity, poverty and social disparity.

About Dom Pym

Dom’s been involved in numerous start-ups and large-scale technology projects since the 1990's, in Australia and overseas.

Dom sits on the board of directors at Fintech Australia, and the advisory Board at Bendigo Bank, and continues to work on Up (up.com.au, Australia’s most successful digital bank, highest rated bank, and most trusted bank). Up’s built to help #Upsiders spend wisely and save effortlessly.

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The Finnies 2022 Finalists - Emerging Fintech

Emerging Fintech Of The Year

People's Choice Awards 2022

Brought to you by FinTech Australia and Tier One People, People's Choice is the Finnies Award the Fintech community gets to decide.

Now in its 3rd year, the award has quickly become one of the most coveted of the Finnies, as the Fintech community chooses the winner.

Winners are decided by counting unique podcast listens and through a voting system. Previous winners are Cake Equity and WeMoney.

The Finnies, the most prestigious Fintech awards in Australia will be held in Melbourne - 23rd June 2022. The first in-person awards since 2019 is a sold-out event but Tier One People will bring you all of the action through our YouTube channel, make sure to subscribe.

Find out more - Finnies 2022

This Year's Finalists

Finnies 2022 Finalists

Fintech Organisation Of The Year

People's Choice Awards 2022

Brought to you by FinTech Australia and Tier One People, People's Choice is the Finnies Award the Fintech community gets to decide.

Now in its 3rd year, the award has quickly become one of the most coveted of the Finnies, as the Fintech community chooses the winner.

Winners are decided by counting unique podcast listens and through a voting system. Previous winners were Airwallex and UP.

The Finnies, the most prestigious Fintech awards in Australia will be held in Melbourne - 23rd June 2022. The first in-person awards since 2019 is a sold-out event but Tier One People will bring you all of the action through our YouTube channel, make sure to subscribe.

Find out more - Finnies 2022

The Finalists

112: 1835i - Monica Lewis and Lynda Coker

In episode 112 of Fintech Chatter Podcast Dexter Cousins is joined by Monica Lewis and Lynda Coker of 1835i.



1835i is the Ventures arm of ANZ bank. Combining the backing of a Global 50 bank with a team driven by innovation and disruption, 1835i builds and invests in businesses that are transforming financial services and beyond.

Monica and Lynda share how the 1835i Creation Lab partners with founders at
different stages of their journey to design, build and launch new digital ventures.

They also discuss 1835i Ventures' approach to investing in leading emerging growth fintech like Lendi, Airwallex, Slyp, Valiant and Bud.

Relationships are a two-way street, Dexter asks Lynda and Monica how 1835i approaches partnerships.
 
And the kind of connections and access founders can expect to portfolio companies and ANZ and its partners.

For more info go to www.1835i.com

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