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.
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.
In episode 115 of the Fintech Chatter podcast, Dexter Cousins is joined by Yish Koh, MD of Kit. Launched in Beta in May 2022, Kit is the latest venture from x15ventures, CommBank’s venture-scaling entity.
Kit is an ‘earning and learning’ money app, that helps school-aged kids build financial capability through fun, evidence-based and experiential learning. Nifty nudges and kid-friendly explainers are delivered by Kit – a friendly, in-app sidekick, who helps make money, make sense.
Prior to being MD of Kit, Yish Koh was Head of Portfolio at x15, responsible for new venture investment and building opportunities. Starting off her career in management consulting, she spent several years working in the NFP sector in early learning, disability services, and health insurance, prior to joining CBA.
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Fundabl helps founders turn their MRR into ARR. They offer software and other subscription-based businesses the ability to convert their monthly subscription payments into a lump sum cash advance. Fundabl simply advances customer contracts for a fixed discount and period. No dilution. No hidden goodies. That’s it!
Founded in Sydney, by a passionate team, they are on a mission to support the Australian start-up ecosystem.
Dexter chats to co-founders Ethan and David on:
- How their solution is changing the game for founders - The importance of retaining equity whilst scaling a Fintech - The importance of getting out to market quickly and winning the first client - Fundabls approach to hiring - The importance of relationships in a startup - Shared values and defining the behaviours everyone expects from each other - The health of the Aussie Fintech startup ecosystem
For more info www.fundabl.com
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BetaCarbon is a climate tech start-up at the intersection of environmental impact and blockchain technology.
Their mission is to increase the demand for high-quality Australian carbon credits, in turn bringing new green projects online and accelerating the path to net-zero.
They have created a digital carbon credit (BCAU) that represents 1kg of carbon removed from the atmosphere by quality, monitored green projects.
These digital credits are tokens that can be bought and traded as an investment, like crypto, or can be accumulated and kept to help balance your emissions.
Dexter chats to Guy about:
- The challenges of tokenising Carbon credits - Empowering every Australian to help reduce carbon emissions - Leaving the safety of a Big Bank career for a startup - Embracing and elevating the next generation of talent - Dealing with regulators in a pioneering asset class
For more info on BetaCarbon https://www.betacarbon.com/
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, you can reach us info@tieronepeople.com
Karta is a world-first Gift Card issuance and distribution platform, connecting merchants and consumers without the need for software integrations.
A strategic partnership deal with CBA has provided new capital allowing them to capture a bigger share in the pre-paid card market in Australia, with growth estimated to top $40 billion in the next few years.
Having recently celebrated their 1st birthday, they chat to Dexter about resilience, and their commitment to get Karta off the ground. Sharing candid insights on
- Dealing with failure - Starting again - Finding the right cofounder - Leaving the corporate life for startup life - Finding a trillion-dollar niche - Attracting the right investors
Steve Vallas, Blockchain Australia: https://blockchainaustralia.org/
Niki Ariyasinghe, Chainlink: https://chain.link/
Fintech Chatter TV
Welcome to the first-ever Fintech Chatter TV show.
It’s a show where we invite friends from the Fintech community to connect, have a natter and discuss news, events, opinions, and a bit of gossip.
We’ll be bringing more shows like this to you over the next few months, so make sure you hit subscribe and get alerted when we post new shows.
2021 was a record-breaking year for Fintech.
Dexter Cousins is joined by three awesome guests and friends of Tier One People to talk about the year that was 2021 and their Fintech predictions for 2022.
Rebecca Schot-Guppy: Ex-CEO of FinTech Australia and now Director at IAG’s Firemark Ventures.
Ben Ford: Head of Growth for Frollo, and owner of Fintech’s premier T-Shirt collection
Bosco Tan: Co-founder of one of Australia’s OG Fintech startups, Pocketbook and now an advisor and investor for the next generation of Fintech startups
97: Sympli, Philip Joyce
In Episode 97 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins talks to Philip Joyce, CEO of Sympli.
Sympli is a next-generation e-settlements solution delivering much-needed competition, reliability, security and value to the property industry.
Sympli entered the e-settlement market in 2018 with a clear purpose of representing industry’s need for a secure, reliable and efficient e-settlements service.
Prior to Sympli's entry, PEXA had a monopoly on the e-settlements market.
I chat to Philip about the challenges of breaking a monopoly, how Sympli is leveraging the support of their JV parents InfoTrack and ASX and what it takes to scale a tech business.
Philip shares his own experience of making the switch from Big 4 Bank to Fintech. And he shares his advice to others wanting to make a similar move.
https://www.sympli.com.au/about-us/
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/
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.
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.
Finnies 2021 WeMoney
WeMoney Winners of People's Choice Emerging Fintech of the year.
Wednesday 13th October 2021 Fintech Australia held their Gala awards event, The Finnies.
Now in its fifth year, The Finnies were more competitive than ever. With 21 awards up for grabs as well as the new 'hall of fame' awards, the Australian Fintech community gathered over Youtube to watch an entertaining and well-produced awards ceremony.
The winners are decided by a public vote. Each finalist is interviewed on Fintech Chatter Podcast with unique downloads counting towards the vote count.
And from a very, very competitive field we are delighted to announce the winners of Emerging Fintech as WeMoney.
Take a listen to our interview with Co-Founder and CEO Dan Jovevski. Congrats to Dan and the team from the Tier One People team for a fantastic first 12 months in operation.
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