089: Salesforce, Stuart Ward
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/
Reach out to Stuart on LinkedIn
In episode 76 of Fintech Chatter Podcast Dexter Cousins is joined by Chris Boas, Managing Director APAC of Q2 a software business that creates simple, smart, end-to-end banking and lending experiences.
Chris chats about the role Q2 is playing in the Australian Fintech sector, where Q2's software (Cloud Lending) is used to power Fintech like Athena and Prospa.
Chris also shares some of the work Q2 is doing around the world, including some 900 banks and credit unions in the US.
And Chris shares his insights on the rapidly changing world of banking since the Covid-19 pandemic.
About Q2
Cloud Lending Solutions empowers the global lending & leasing community to connect with their borrowers in a whole new way by fundamentally transforming the borrower's experience.
Built on Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM, Cloud Lending Solutions is the industry's only end-to-end lending and leasing software specifically designed to digitize the entire lending process.
Cloud Lending continues to expand globally across five continents and over twenty-three countries.
Connect with Chris on LinkedIn
Find out more about Q2
Steve Weston, Volt Bank 2.0
Dexter Cousins is joined by Steve Weston CEO and Co-Founder of Volt Bank.
It's been a wild ride for Volt, as it has every neo bank! Volt has carved the path for a banking revolution as Australia's first new bank of the millennia and the first 'Neo bank' to be granted a full banking license in Australia.
Tune in for a candid chat with Steve where we talk about the challenges of making the Neo Bank model work. Expect to see Volt hit the market with new consumer products in early 2021 and the Beta savings product is in the market now.
The world has changed and the future of banking is uncertain. Steve shares the Volt 2.0 strategy which sees them partner with Microsoft to provide banking as a service to any business wishing to sell financial products.
It's a strategy that will help Volt scale globally and at an exponential rate.
Impressive partnerships with Salesforce and Paypal in place give Volt bank the opportunity to strike (excuse the pun, totally intended.)
Go to https://www.voltbank.com.au/