"We hire people who have shown a true affinity for their customers in previous roles. Talking about the profit you’ve delivered without sharing the customer problems you've solved is not really the way to get your foot in the door." Tim Cameron - Transferwise Tim Cameron is Australia New Zealand Country Manager for Transferwise. Transferwise launched […]
Bianca Bates is Chief Client Officer at Cuscal, Australia's largest independent provider of payment solutions. Cuscal has a rich history of technology innovation in Australia and is the main investor behind Neo bank 86 400. They were the first provider to go live on the new payments platform, switching on 30 clients simultaneously on one […]
Carolyn Breeze is General Manager for the ANZ region of GoCardless a global payments platform designed for recurring payments. They process more than $13 billion in transactions each year. Gocardless is backed by some major players in the VC world, including Accel partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Google Ventures. Carolyn is a payments veteran holding senior […]
Francine Ereira is Country Head of Klarna, a Fintech founded in 2005 in Sweden, with the aim of making it easier for people to shop online. Klarna is now one of Europe's largest banks, providing payment solutions for 85 million consumers across 205,000 merchants in 17 countries. Klarna offers a smooth, one click purchase experience […]
Emma Weston is the CEO and a co-founder at AgriDigital, an AgTech meets FinTech company. They digitise and de-risk global Agri supply-chains with a current focus on the grain and cotton industries. When did you found AgriDigital and how big are you now? Emma: I've got two co-founders, Bob McKay and Ben Reed. We've actually […]
Dexter Cousins speaks with Marie Steinthaler, VP Asia with Truelayer about Australia's 1st July launch of CDR and open banking. Marie can you tell us more about TrueLayer? TrueLayer is a platform that provides global access to open banking. And what I mean by that is essentially a way for our clients to securely access […]
Paul Weingarth is CEO and Co-Founder of Slyp, an innovative provider of digital receipts sent straight to your banking app. Slyp eliminates paper receipts, helps retailers' engage with customers and makes it easier to file tax returns. 2020 has been a big year with CBA investing in the business, making Slyp the first Fintech startup […]
Tier One People launch FinTech Talent Market in partnership with FinTech Australia. FinTech Australia has partnered with Tier One People to launch a Fintech Talent Market in response to increasing job losses through the Covid-19 crisis. The marketplace, run through LinkedIn Groups, aims to connect people in the Fintech community who have lost their jobs […]
How Is Covid-19 Impacting The Fintech jobs market in Sydney and Melbourne right now? As someone who has been in the recruitment industry since the last millenium, I can tell you we are in unprecedented times when it comes to the job market. Mass unemployment overnight, businesses shut down, workforces banned from their office, I […]
