Revolut Australia CEO Matt Baxby: From 3 Employees to 1 Million Customers and Profitability. Revolut Australia CEO Matt Baxby has done what most Australian neobanks couldn't: reach 1 million customers and profitability. Six years after soft-launching with three employees during a global pandemic, the Revolut Australia CEO sits down with Dexter Cousins on Fintech Chatter […]
Equitise - The crowdfunding platform which simplifies the investment marketplace. Jonny Wilkinson is co-founder of Equitise. Equitise is a crowdfunding platform which simplifies the investment marketplace. It removes traditional barriers to investing in sourcing capital by making the process quick, easy and safe. Enabling your average Aussie to invest in early stage startups like Xinja. Jonny […]
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 Australia 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 positions at eBay, […]
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 […]
"Good leaders really understand that it's not about them. It's about what they can do to get the best out of everybody else around them. " David M Brear 11:FS Exclusive Interview. Dexter Cousins chats to David M Brear CEO of 11:FS, the globally renowned Fintech and digital banking consultancy. Find out David's secrets on […]
Robert, how did you get to build Australia’s first smartbank? I am a banker by background, I spent 15 years with one of Australia’s Big 4 banks and was given the opportunity to run banks in the Pacific and Japan. I came back to Australia to run a mid- sized mutual bank, and immediately before […]
Of the 50 possible deployments we can do in a day, we can push five of them out to customers who get an iterative, improving application every single day. The most deployments we have done in a day is ten. At the moment, we're sitting at an average of six. Dom Pym - Up Bank […]
Revolut is looking for Australia's top talent. For those who are not aware of Revolut it is a phenomenal growth story. Launching in 2015 Revolut has over 5 million customers in Europe, and another 350,000 joining each month. June 12th 2019 saw the launch of a public beta in Australia. Find out more about Revolut […]
