Erica Xie joins Dexter Cousins to chat about Tanggram, a smart wealth-creating App that integrates investment with shopping rewards.
Congratulations to Erica who has just been announced as Emerging Fintech Leader of the Year at the 2024 Finnies Awards.
About Tanggram
Co-founded with CEO Nick Tang in 2017, Tanggram is unique in that it serves a massively underserved segment of Australia's community, Asian immigrants.
The app provides a seamless wealth building journey to well-educated, young people who have stable income streams and financial goals.
Dexter spoke to Erica just days before she was awarded Emerging Fintech Leader of the Year at the prestigious Finnies Awards.
Erica shares her journey as COO from starting out as a financial advisor with Nick, to building a Fintech Platform. We also cover:
- Building a lean and agile operation
- Supporting and educating the Chinese community on the Australian financial services landscape
- Keeping customers, partners and people together and building good will with customers
- Building an app and serving a niche market
- Converting subscribers on an email list into paying users of the app
Erica also shares news of the upcoming launch of their superannuation product.
https://www.tanggram.com/more-super
About Erica Xie
Erica is a results-oriented leader with extensive experience in business management and operations, particularly in startups and the Fintech industry. As the Co-founder of Tanggram, Erica has played a key role in building a cohesive and goal-oriented team, and has contributed to the successful partnerships and market position of the business.
Erica was honored as the "Emerging Fintech Leader of the Year" at Fintech Australia's Finnies Awards and "Young Leader of the Year" at the Women in Finance 2022. Erica has also been nominated for the "Female Fintech Leader of the Year" in both the 2023 and 2024 Fintech Australia Finnies Awards.
https://www.tanggram.com/
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.
Hnry - Australian Fintech of the Year 2022
You can listen to the Hnry story and CEO and co-founder James Fuller sharing their humble beginnings from an excel spreadsheet.
Another record turnout at the FinTech Australia Awards - The Finnies 2022.
And there were a record number of downloads and votes for the People's Choice category this year. Hnry emerged victorious - less than 100 downloads separated the 8 finalists!
A record year deserved a special occasion and the team at FinTech Australia did not disappoint.
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 looks!
It was an extremely well-planned event.
This was the biggest Australian Fintech awards yet. The ceremony was super slick which left the whole night for the long-awaited in-person awards. 2019 was the last time the Australian Fintech industry gathered in person for the event.
The awards across all categories 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.
James says winning People’s Choice reflects the huge amount of work Hnry’s team on both sides of the Tasman has put into making the Australian expansion a success.
“Despite launching in Australia during the pandemic, we’ve quickly become the fastest-growing digital accountancy across both sides of the Tasman. Our growth reflects that the nature of work is changing – people want more flexibility and opportunities to earn independently.
“We’ve been able to offer Australia’s independent earners something new, and it’s obviously hitting the mark – for a New Zealand company to win People’s Choice in Australia is something special,” he says.
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
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.
Dexter Cousins chats to Rebecca Schot-Guppy, CEO of Fintech Australia to talk about the upcoming Intersekt festival 2021.
The Australian Fintech industry will gather in Melbourne on Wednesday 19th May. What's the big occasion?
The premier Australian Fintech event, Intersekt Festival 2021.
It’s the first Intersekt since Oct 2019. In true FinTech Australia fashion they've gone all out hosting the premier Fintech Awards, the Finnies on 9th June!
Listen to Rebecca share plans for the events and what to expect from FA over the coming months. If you can't make it to Melbourne we'll bring you all of the action in a bumper podcast recorded at the event.
Get set for binge-listening!
Tier One People and FinTech Australia launch the People’s Choice podcasts at Intersekt Thursday 20th May.
Remember every unique listen goes to the vote count for your favourite Fintechs!
If you’d like to attend Intersekt go to intersektfestival.com
To attend the Finnies go to https://www.thefinnies.org.au/
The Finnies finalists 2020
Tier One People up against DLA Piper and King and Wood Mallesons for the Excellence in FinTech Support Services.
The award recognises the support services that have provided the highest level of assistance to fintechs in their operation and growth or a business that helps drive the growth of the fintech community through physical infrastructure (space), connections and capital.
We are up against consulting firms, legal support, accounting, technology companies and incubators/hubs/co-working spaces, accelerators and investment firms.
This is the first year an Executive Search firm has been nominated for the award. And to say we are delighted is an under statement. To be recognised by your peers and the people you serve is a huge honour and we are immensely proud to be up there against such strong competition.
Finnies 2020 promises to be the biggest and best yet!
Given the restrictions the event will be a mix of virtual and in person events. There'll be a live transmission from The Studio (where we host the FinTech Australia Podcast.) Stone and Chalk will be holding small live events in Sydney and Adelaide.
People are also encouraged to host their own events and office parties. Fintech Australia will be shipping Alcohol and goodies if you host your own office event. We are already hearing of some cool waterfront venues being booked out here in Sydney!
And if you prefer to celebrate from home First 100 registrations will receive an exclusive gift box with goodies, alcohol discounts, sponsor gifts and other offers.
You can register for the Finnies here
You decide the winners.
And in an effort to get everyone involved, two categories this year will go to the people's choice awards. You can vote for your favourite Fintech and help them get bonus points if you listen to their exclusive show on our special Finnies Podcast.
But be fast, you can only listen to the shows 7th - 14th October!
Vote now for Emerging Fintech of the year and Fintech of the year
Rebecca Schot-Guppy, FinTech Australia
Rebecca Schot-Guppy joins Dexter to kick-off season two of the FinTech Australia Podcast.
Welcome back! And after a short break, who better to help us kick off season two than our wonderful partners, FinTech Australia.
CEO Rebecca Schot-Guppy joins Dexter Cousins to talk about the Senate Enquiry into Fintech and Senator Braggs recommendations.
COVID has had a devastating impact on the economy, despite such challenges FinTech Australia is stronger than ever, gaining more members over the last six months.
Rebecca shares her secrets to making FinTech Australia the peak industry body.
For those who don't know Rebecca all we can say is she's a force!
You can find out more about membership https://fintechaustralia.org.au/join-now/
You can follow Rebecca on Twitter @SchotGuppy and Linkedin
