“The Revolut Country CEO search took six months. The brief changed 4 times as the company grew from 700 to almost 2000 staff during this time. Customer numbers went from 4m to almost 10m. When a company is growing that fast in a highly regulated sector like Banking, it creates a lot of complexity, meaning […]
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 […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
