Insights

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

09/09/2019
How to scale a Fintech - Tips on hiring

Fintech founders know more than most, the damage caused by making the wrong hire. Especially when a company is in the earlier stages of growth. Since launching in 2016, Tier One People has interviewed over 300 leaders on how to scale a Fintech. We've gained a lot of insights on how and how not to […]

30/08/2019
Fintech Career Advice

Fintech is soooooo hot right now and judging by the amount of enquiries we get at Tier One People, it feels like everyone wants to work in Fintech. Fintech isn't for everyone. Here are five questions we recommend asking yourself to find out if Fintech is for you. 1. Are you ready to join a […]

08/08/2019
Australian Fintech Awards 2019 Winners

Thursday 1 August 2019, Ashurst hosted the 4th Annual Australian FinTech Awards in Sydney. It was an opportunity for the community to come together and celebrate success.  Tier One People Sponsors Of Australian Fintech Awards 2019. Traditionally the awards focused on recognising grass roots, Fintech startups. With Unicorn companies like AfterPay and the rapidly growing […]

25/03/2019
Mark Tarring - Tilda Travel

Tier One People Founder, Dexter Cousins speaks exclusively with Mark Tarring, Founder and CEO of Tilda Travel, a game changing platform bringing the worlds of online Travel and FinTech together. I’ve known Mark for ten years starting back when he was Co-MD of Virgin Money Australia. We caught up recently to talk about the launch […]

20/01/2019
Vincent Turner - Uno.

Vincent Turner is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Uno Home Loans. He has been in fintech his whole working life, starting way before the term fintech was coined.

10/01/2019
Making a Career Move to FinTech

Fintech is one of the hottest employment sectors. With banking and financial services facing HUGE disruption and so many banking and financial services execs entering the Fintech job market, there is increased competition for opportunities. Lean Startup Approach To Job Hunting. When Tier One People does advertise a role, we receive 150 – 200 applications […]

01/09/2018
Evan Wong - Checkbox.ai

Checkbox was under the radar for over a year. There was no product to show potential customers. No one knew about us until we won Regtech of the Year at the 2017 Fintech Awards. Fast forward 12 months and we have grown from four to twenty people. Evan Wong - CheckBox Evan Wong is CEO […]

15/04/2018
Chris Bayley - Cover Genius

We were extremely focused and spotted an opportunity in a sizeable niche that was being overlooked by the large insurers. The niche we identified was car rental insurance. It's worth US$7 billion globally, US$6 billion of which is profit. Chris Bayley - Cover Genius. Cover Genius is an Aussie success story and is on course […]

17/01/2018
Sydney Fintech jobs update

Sydney Fintech Jobs At Tier One People, we get to work with some amazing startups in Fintech. January has got off to a flier, so here is the first Tier One People Sydney FinTech jobs update of 2018. There is an air of optimism that Fintechs will be a success. But the two challenges facing […]

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