Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech CEOs and Founders

Thank you to Vocus for sponsoring and presenting the award for Fintech Organisation of the Year at this year’s Finnies. We hope to see you on 9th June in Melbourne at this year's finals. And don’t forget to place your vote in the People’s Choice Awards. Send us Fan Mail Contact: info@tieronepeople.com Connect on with Dexter Cousins on Linkedin Hire Exceptional Fintech Talent Subscribe on Link...

Thank you to Vocus for sponsoring and presenting the award for Emerging Fintech Organisation of the Year at this year’s Finnies. We hope to see you on 9th June in Melbourne at this year's finals. And don’t forget to place your vote in the People’s Choice Awards. Send us Fan Mail Contact: info@tieronepeople.com Connect on with Dexter Cousins on Linkedin Hire Exceptional Fintech Talent Subscrib...

Thank you to Vocus for sponsoring and presenting the award for Fintech Organisation of the Year at this year’s Finnies. We hope to see you on 9th June in Melbourne at this year's finals. And don’t forget to place your vote in the People’s Choice Awards. Send us Fan Mail Contact: info@tieronepeople.com Connect on with Dexter Cousins on Linkedin Hire Exceptional Fintech Talent Subscribe on Link...

Thank you to Vocus for sponsoring and presenting the award for Fintech Organisation of the Year at this year’s Finnies. We hope to see you on 9th June in Melbourne at this year's finals. And don’t forget to place your vote in the People’s Choice Awards. Send us Fan Mail Contact: info@tieronepeople.com Connect on with Dexter Cousins on Linkedin Hire Exceptional Fintech Talent Subscribe on Link...

In episode 82 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins is joined by Macgregor Duncan of Westpac. They discuss the 10x partnership and how Westpac's Banking as a Service model brings Fintech and Banking closer. In October 2020 Westpac announced a landmark partnership with Fintech giant, Afterpay . The partnership will allow Afterpay to provide Westpac transaction and savings accounts and other cashfl...

In this special episode, Dexter Cousins chats to Rebecca Schot-Guppy, CEO of Fintech Australia about a very special month. On Wednesday 19th May the Australian Fintech industry will gather in Melbourne for the sector's premier in-person event, Intersekt Festival . It’s the first Intersekt since Oct 2019 and in true FinTech Australia fashion they've decided to follow with the premier Fint...

Welcome to the first of our Masterclass podcast series. Every month we bring together experts from the Tier One People network to discuss a particular aspect of scaling a Fintech. In this episode Dexter Cousins is joined by two special guests from the world of Talent and People to discuss hiring. Emma Jones of Project F and Sophie Theen of Oakam group.   The core to the success of every tech busin...

In episode 81 Dexter Cousins is joined by Stuart Clout, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Ansarada Group. This is Stuart’s 2nd time on the show, he first appeared in episode 4 , the last episode pre-covid, when we talked about his business thedocyard. It's been a big 14 months for Stuart. We talk about the audacious merger with Ansarada and how by bringing the companies together, there’...

In episode 80 of the Fintech Chatter Podcast, Dexter Cousins is joined by Jins Kadwood , Chief Technology Officer of Agridigital . Dexter first met Jins in 2018, he was fortunately/unfortunately sandwiched between the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a photo as Dexter handed Jins the CTO of the year at the Fintech Awards. Check out the full horror here! So it was cool to see Jins join a...

In episode 79 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins chats to Evan Wong CEO & Co-Founder of Checkbox, a 13x award-winning no code workflow automation platform.  Evan has worked with many enterprises including Telstra, Coca Cola and the Singaporean Govt on their digital transformation projects. Leveraging his expertise in developing digital solutions to solve business process problems, Evan and the...

In episode 78 of Fintech Chatter Dexter Cousins is joined by Steve Vallas , CEO of Blockchain Australia . It's a big week for Blockchain Australia as they launch the very first Blockchain Week, a festival bringing together over 100 speakers to talk all things Blockchain. Blockchain Australia aims to encourage the responsible adoption of blockchain technology by industry and governments across...

In episode 77 Dexter Cousins chats to Stephen McNulty, Chief Growth Officer of Haventec. Each month Dexter showcases one of Australia's up-and-coming innovators. To kick off the series, we feature Haventec. At the core of the Haventec proposition is a remarkably simple idea, beautifully executed – protecting digital identities from harm, and keeping ‘data that matters’ safe – the key foundati...

In episode 76 Dexter Cousins is joined by Chris Boas, Managing Director APAC of Q2  a software business that creates simple, smart, end-to-end banking and lending experiences. Chris chats about the role Q2 is playing in the Australian Fintech sector, where Q2's software (Cloud Lending) is used to power Fintech like Athena and Prospa. Chris also shares some of the work Q2 is doing around the w...

In Episode 75 Dexter Cousins is joined by Chris Skinner, author, commentator and (in his own words) "troublemaker" Chris Skinner is known as one of the most influential people in technology, and as an independent commentator on fintech through his blog, the Finanser.com. His latest book (sixteenth!) is called Doing Digital, and shares the lessons of doing digital transformation learned t...

Dexter is joined by Mark Fordree from Ignition Advice for episode 74 of the Fintech Chatter podcast. Founded in Sydney in 2014 by Mark and Mike Giles , Ignition Advice is a global leader in digital advice technology, with unique capabilities to deliver advice across investment, retirement and insurance.  Ignition offers a full end-to-end platform for enterprise, including onboarding, consumer enga...

In episode #73 Dexter chats to Domm Holland , the Co-Founder and CEO of Fast , the world’s fastest online login and checkout platform. Founded in Australia and currently headquartered in San Francisco, Fast is a privately held company founded by Domm and Allison Barr Allen and funded by Stripe, Addition, Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and Sugar Capital. Widely known as the ’World’s Fastest CEO,” Do...

Dexter Cousins is joined by the remarkable Lizzie Chapman CEO & Co-Founder of ZestMoney - India’s first and largest AI-Driven, digital financing platform. Lizzie Chapman is a leading figure in the fintech landscape of India. She has been instrumental in driving the adoption of digital finance and financial inclusion initiatives in the country.  Lizzie's vision is to make life affordable t...

In episode #71 Dexter Cousins chats to Nathan and Michael as they celebrate the 2nd birthday of Athena's official launch.  Athena is on a mission to save Australians a whole lot of money and help pay off their home loan faster. Founded in June 2017 to revolutionise the home loan industry and make it better in every way, Athena built an innovative digital home loan platform to deliver savings...

In episode #70  Dexter Cousins is joined by 86 400’s founding CEO, Robert Bell. They chat about the proposed acquisition by NAB. 86 400 is Australia's first smart bank. Launched in September 2019 with an unrestricted banking license, the smart phone only bank has been the trail blazer for Aussie neobanks launching home loans, energy switching, joint accounts, budgeting tools with new feature...

Dexter Cousins is joined by Jason Pellegrino, CEO of Domain Group on the FinTech Australia Podcast. You might be asking why a Real Estate listings platform is featuring on a Fintech podcast? Tune in and find out why in this super interesting show as Jason shares the Domain Group strategy and their move into Fintech! Jason spent 10 years with Google as Managing Director of Australia and New Zealand...

Dexter Cousins is joined by Martin McCann CEO and Co-Founder of Trade Ledger, the world’s first open digital banking platform that gives banks the ability to assess business lending risk in real-time. Tune in as Dexter and Martin discuss the Fintech landscape and how Trade Ledger has evolved since launching four years ago. As an avid technologist, business leader, investor, academic researcher, an...

Dexter Cousins is joined by Toby Norton-Smith to celebrate the 1st anniversary of x15 Ventures - a venture scaler focused on building, investing or acquiring ventures that can deliver the next generation of services in and around banking, advantaged through integration and support from CommBank.  Prior to x15 Ventures, Toby was General Manager of Digital Growth at CBA, was CEO of a fintech venture...

Dexter Cousins ushers in 2021 and season 3 with Claire Alexander, Head of People at Limepay.  In this special show Dexter fields questions from you, the listeners, on Fintech career advice. Tune in as Claire and Dexter discuss which skills are in demand, which skills you should focus on developing, what stage a Fintech will hire specialists over generalists and how to position yourself when applyi...

Our good friend Lee Hatton from Afterpay joins Dexter Cousins as they discuss a world first partnership with Westpac. Banking as a Service is real! Afterpay recently announced a landmark partnership with Westpac to provide a deposit account facility to Afterpay customers via the 10x / Westpac BaaS  platform. It's only six weeks since Lee was last on the show. Since then Afterpay has cemented...

Dexter Cousins chats to Fred Schebesta, Co-Founder of Finder and CEO of Schebesta Ventures on the FinTech Australia Podcast.  It's been another breakthrough year for Finder, with the launch of the Finder Money App. Fred talks us through the first 9 months, 100,000 users and the upcoming launch of their crypto product. We also chat about Fred's newest venture, Schebesta Ventures, a progra...