Banking on IT

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 42: Max Cunningham, CEO, FCX   FCX describes itself as “A new era for private markets. FCX helps companies better manage their investors and securities.” FCX was conceived and built for the private investment sector with the simple goal to replicate the listed market ‘user experience’ for unlisted assets. As a result, we are Australia’s first universal equity ma...

Contact: Mark Tibbles mtibbles@asl.com.au     Delighted to welcome Mark Tibbles, CEO of Australian Settlements Limited or ASL . Mark is a Payments guy having spent most of the last 25 years in the payments sector, including stints at CBA, NAB, Westpac, Clydesdale & Yorkshire Bank, Verifone and Wirecard. Since 2019 Mark has been leading the ASL Team in the shift from aggregator to a next genera...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 40: Anthony Baum, Founder & CEO, Tic:Toc https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-baum-tictoc/ Anthony is the founder and CEO of Tic:Toc, a fintech company who’s passion is making financial services smarter, faster and simpler.  Anthony launched Tic:Toc in 2017 with a vision to change the way Australians select their home loan. Their proprietary technology enable...

Mike Page, CEO Asia Pacific, Mogo Plus   To understand responsible lending for home loans; “We argue against HEM because the data tells the truth,” says Mike Page, Mogo Plus. “We enable enterprises to make fully informed customer decisions through descriptive and predictive data insights,” adds Mike.  “We are now in the CDR 2.0 phase; let’s focus on the customer – we will move towards more persona...

Can Parpera empower the business owner to run their company better? Daniel discusses the three key things that all business owners want from a fintech or bank: 1. Help them receive money simply and easily 2. Help them understand and manage cash flow and tax obligations 3. Help them gain access to support services (not just banking products) Daniel is the Founder and CEO of Parpera, an Australian f...

Super Rewards can help bridge Australia's gender ‘Super Gap’   We’ve all heard of the gender pay gap, but what about the ‘Super Gap’ where women have significantly lower balances of Superannuation at retirement than men? Super Rewards wants to help fix this – in this interview we discuss how Super Rewards links e-commerce (instant rewards) with Superannuation (long term rewards). Super Reward...

CDR opens the gate to the Super App for Australia, says Ashurst   Interview with Geoff McGrath, Partner, Ashurst  Geoff is a Partner in the digital economy transactions team at Ashurst, with a focus on data, privacy, as well as information technology and telecommunications. Keen supporter of startups, with an interest in the tech sector, energy transition, intellectual property, early stage invest...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 35: Sofie de Vreese, GM APAC, Expensify   Expensify creates payments and expenses ‘Super app’ with Freemium pricing model  To use Expensify’s own words; “We make expense reports that don't suck - get the app and play around for yourself” Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage mone...

Downsizer is a digital home-buying experience unlike any other! With Downsizer, anyone with sufficient equity in their current home can purchase a new dwelling with zero cash deposit.  Downsizer has raised $3.75 million seed capital to accelerate the growth of its SaaS platform operating at the intersections of fintech, proptech and insurtech. Downsizer is helping property developers, real estate...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Joe Patrick at Astral Ventures   Joe Patrick is the co-founder of Astral Ventures – a technology focussed corporate advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia. Astral has worked with some of Australia’s most exciting technology companies including Hivery, FrankieOne, ImmutableX, Spaceship and VC fund Blackbird Ventures, among many more.  Astral Ventures is also the publis...

Trent McLaren, Founder, The Journey www.letsjourney.com.au  Trent’s just finished up a role with Weel (Previously DiviPay) as Head of Strategic Channels. Whilst Trent’s Officially hanging up the boots at Weel, his role there was an amazing roller coaster ride of growth and innovation and, like all startups, in a very short period of time. Trent worked with the co-founders as the team scaled from 1...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 31; Kallan Hogan, Head of Business Development, Mastercard Australia & NZ    Key Points raised:  Mastercard about connecting buyers and sellers Mastercard is more than cards and payments; services also include: Digital ID, online fraud verification, biometrics technology, Ai that scores transactions for fraud, personalisation, loyalty etc  Mastercard is a ch...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 30; Simon Burt, Head of Digital Customer Experience and Innovation, Newcastle Permanent Building Society Key Points: NPBS future is about Partnerships  NPBS not trying to be a digital only bank, but wants to partner with fintechs to stay competitive and serve customers better Bank branches are now ‘digital classrooms’ for customers Open Banking will change the b...

The Fintech Report Podcast: Episode 29; Cameron Dart, CEO & Founder, Australian FinTech Giving fintechs a voice is our key mission, says Dart  Vision is to cover all major fintech markets  Separate newsletters launched for PropTech and Blockchain  FinTech India to launch in 2023   Cameron explains his background and what led him to start Australian FinTech; finance career kicked off with a mer...

Our Guest today is Caleb Gibbins, Founder of Cache Invest  –  Cache provide Investing as-a-Service so that any company can be a Fintech company. You can integrate Cache’s fully digital investment products directly into your existing app, website or other platform through their APIs.  Caleb discusses the following on this episode of The FinTech Report Podcast •Developments in micro-investing over t...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 26: Santiago Burridge - CEO & Co-Founder at Lumiant   About Santiago Santiago “Santi” Burridge founded Lumiant in 2020 to support financial Advisers in delivering on the promise of advice by creating a software-supported advice experience. According to Santiago, Financial Advice needs to expand beyond investments and into every facet of a client’s financial...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 25: Interview with Raaj Rayat, Investor, Airtree Ventures Raaj Rayat is an early stage venture investor with Airtree Ventures. Prior to Airtree, Raaj launched Lendable in Nariobi (Kenya), London and Sydney. Lendable is a FinTech that uses data science to expand fair access to financial services in emerging markets. Raaj Helped scale Lendable from $0 to $200m+ in...

KYC/CDD: Moody’s helps fintechs meet compliance at speed  Our guest is Choon Hong Chua; Senior Director – Head of Financial Crime Practice, APAC & Middle East, Moody’s Analytics, where we discuss know-your-customer (KYC), covering how fintechs are performing customer due diligence (CDD), i.e. verifying the identity of a customer, whether an individual or business. Choon is the APAC and Middle...

The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 24: Interview with Jaco Veldsman, Co-Founder, Paytron We started with payments and accounting, customers then asked us for corporate cards and FX, and Open Banking for Business will be a game changer, says Paytron   Paytron is a cloud-based payments platform built for SMEs and accountants.  In 2020, Jaco Veldsman met co-founder Francois Henrion, where they lamen...

Mark Monfort, Co-Founder of the Australian Defi Association, and Nick Bishop, Co-Founder of Bishop & Fang to the podcast Mark is an expert on DeFi #web3 and #blockchain – he’s worked in both the finance and technology sectors. His professional career started off in insurance as well as working as an auditor for a Big 4 firm (PwC). It was through his next role as an analyst at Commonwealth Bank...

The Fintech Report Podcast: Interview with Paul Apolony, GM Australia, Mambu Banks and the Race to High Velocity In this podcast we discuss:   ●      How does a lifelong banker end up running Mambu Australia?  ●      Discuss wider industry experience that crosses over to Mambu What does Mambu do? ●      Mambu is the market leading cloud banking platform – launched in Berlin in 2011, Mambu now oper...

Paul Weingarth, Co-Founder of Slyp Prior to co-founding Slyp, Paul worked for the Commonwealth Bank, Microsoft and PayPal.  Paul’s now on a mission – he wants to end paper receipts and plastic loyalty cards; how is it that in 2022 we tap our phone or card or watch to make a payment in-store, then we are handed a chemically coated non-recyclable piece of paper to keep a record of the purchase. 20,0...

Build your dream on Oracle Cloud - Interview with Pijush Mukherjee from Oracle and Karthik Srinivasan from Ziksu. About our Guests:   Pijush Mukherjee from Oracle  https://www.linkedin.com/in/impijush/   Pijush is a Technology leader with 2 decades of experience in business development, partner management, consulting, solution and delivery management of digital transformation initiatives across in...

Cake Equity offers free “1 click ESOP” to early stage fintechs to democratise the fundraising process    Founders want to quickly and easily understand how to issue options to their team. And when raising capital from Angels, investors and VCs, they want a good deal using industry standard terms that will protect them. Cake solves the problems inherent in fundraising at the early stage; the cost a...

“Time to Yes” is FinTechs Key Issue says Experity Capital Episode 18: Interview with Clint Howen, Founder at Hero Broker & Director/Head of Digital at Experity Capital Key items discussed in this interview: 1.      “Time to Yes” is the Number One Issue 2.      Time to Yes is driven by FinTech ‘Super Apps’ because they offer greater insight into a customer’s financial/wealth position  3.      S...