Betacarbon - Emerging Australian Fintech 2022

People's Choice Fintech Awards

Congratulations to Guy Dickinson and the Betacarbon team on being crowned People's Choice Emerging Australian Fintech of the Year 2022.

There were a record number of downloads and votes for the competition this year. Betacarbon emerged victorious amongst a very strong group of 8 finalists.

Tier One People CEO, Dexter Cousins presented the emerging Fintech award to Betacarbon CEO and co-founder Guy Dickinson. The award is reflective of the mood and sentiment within the industry at present. Fintech is a force for good and plays a crucial role in solving HUGE problems like climate change.

Held at the Forum in Melbourne, the industry turned out in ball gowns and black ties, WOW what a gorgeous bunch the Australian Fintech industry looked!

It was an extremely well-planned event.

The ceremony was super slick which left the whole night to catch up and enjoy what has been a very long-awaited in-person Fintech awards. 2019 was the last time the industry gathered in person for the event.

The awards across all categories of Fintech were tighter than ever, no company won more than one award. Perhaps most telling about this year's Finnies was the calibre of finalists who didn't win an award.

Finnies 2021 Up

Up win Finnies 2021 prestigous People's Choice Award for Fintech of the year presented by Tier One People.

Congrats to Dom Pym and the team at Up for winning this year's People's Choice award. Sponsored by Tier One People this award is decided by the public based on votes and unique podcast listens.

Each finalist is featured in their own Fintech Chatter Podcast episode to talk through the last 12 months and what makes them worthy winners.

This is the only podcast episode we've managed to record in person this year. Recorded live at Intersekt 2021 there's real energy in this episode and it's definitely one of our favourites.

Up is a business Tier One People has supported from before day one.

The award comes in the week Up celebrates the third anniversary of their official launch. Tier One people founder, Dexter Cousins was at that launch and he described Up Co-Founder Dom Pym as the Steve Jobs of Australian banking.

It's been a huge year for Up, with the acquisition from Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, a new CEO in ex-Square employee Xavier Shay and hitting over 400,000 customers.

Have a listen to the interview with Dom and I'm sure you'll agree they are worthy winners. Dom and the team have certainly won the hearts of the public and Fintech community.