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The playbooks, hiring decisions and market moves behind Australia's fastest-growing fintechs.

01/07/2020
Ep 20: Open Banking Special

Join your host Dexter Cousins for a HUGE celebration! Open Banking is now live in Australia and in honour of this 'Game Changing' event for Fintech we have an amazing line up of guests. True pioneers! In episode 020 of the Fintech Australia Podcast co-host is our good friend from True Layer, Marie Steinthaler. And […]

25/06/2020
Tim Cameron - Transferwise

"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 […]

25/06/2020
019: Tim Cameron, Transferwise

In episode 19 Dexter Cousins is joined by Tim Cameron Australia New Zealand Country Manager for Transferwise. Launched in 2011 with the vision of making international money transfers cheap, fair, and simple. Transferwise now has over 7 million customers and processes over US$5bn per month in international transactions With investors including Sir Richard Branson and […]

19/06/2020
018: Bianca Bates, Cuscal

In episode 18 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins chats to Bianca Bates, 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 […]

17/06/2020
017: Carolyn Breeze, GoCardless

Welcome to episode 17. Dexter is joined by Carolyn Breeze, General Manager for the ANZ region of GoCardless. They’re a global payments platform designed for recurring payments whether they be, invoice, subscription, membership or instalment payments.  Processing more than $13bn each year, GoCardless is backed by major players in VC including Accel Partners, Salesforce ventures […]

15/06/2020
Ep 16: Francine Ereira, Klarna

In episode 16 I am joined by Francine Ereira, Australia Country Head of Klarna. Klarna was founded in 2005 in Sweden with the aim of making it easier for people to shop online.  They are now one of Europe’s largest banks providing payment solutions for 85 million consumers across 205,000 merchants in 17 countries.  Klarna […]

09/06/2020
Ep 15: Shadi Haddad, Till Payments

In episode 15 Dexter is joined by Shadi Haddad, CEO of Till Payments. Till are the payments people behind payments, enabling millions of transactions across the globe. Founded and head quartered in Sydney,Till payments is another example of Aussie entrepreneurship and innovation in the payments sector. And with a Series A raise in late 2019, […]

08/06/2020
014: The Blockchain Podcast

Dexter Cousins knows nothing about blockchain, so he gets back up by Alan Tsen, Chairman of FinTech Australia for a bumper podcast episode! They are joined by; - Caroline Bowler, CEO https://www.btcmarkets.net/- Niki Arysinghe, Head of Partnerships https://www.r3.com/- Claudio Lisco, APAC Director https://consensys.net/- Katrina Donaghy, CEO https://civicledger.com/- Emma Weston, CEO https://www.agridigital.io/ Alan Tsen you can follow on twitter.com/alantsen or sign […]

04/06/2020
Ep 13: Katrina Donaghy, Civic Ledger

I'm joined by Katrina Donaghy, CEO of Civic Ledger. They build modern digital platforms to help governments transform the way entitlements and public resources are managed. Winner of multiple awards Civic Ledger recently delivered a world first by using blockchain technology to facilitate a transparent and trusted way to trade water in Australia. Katrina shares […]

25/05/2020
Ep 12: Emma Weston, Agridigital

Emma Weston is CEO and Co-Founder of AgriDigital, an Australian headquartered Agri/Fintech focused on digitising global agriculture supply chains. Founded in late 2015, Agridigital have been working with blockchains, distributed ledgers and smart contracts since 2015.   In 2016, they completed the world's first sale of wheat on a blockchain between a farmer and a […]

22/05/2020
Ep 11: Tim Dwyer & Dan Peters, Limepay

In this episode Dexter chats with Tim Dwyer, CEO and Dan Peters, CRO of Limepay. Limepay is the next generation of payment gateway, increasing revenue, removing friction at the checkout and keeping customers in the merchants ecosystem. The platform brings together, for the first time, both upfront card payments and buy now pay later in the same […]

20/05/2020
Ep 10: Fintech Australia Podcast Show

We have a HUUUUGE show to share folks. This episode I am joined by Simone Joyce, CEO and Founder of paypaplane.com a Brisbane based Payments Fintech. With a distinct payments flava we talk about what's happening across Australia and Asia and why we are seeing so much capital entering the space. While Sam Zheng and I talk about […]

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