Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech CEOs and Founders

In ep 41 Dexter Cousins is joined by Brendan Malone, Co-Founder and COO of Raiz, an investment app that helps people save in the background of life. Over 270,000 monthly users can invest in crypto and a range of investment funds using their spare change. Launched in 2015 as Acorns, the app pioneered 'round-ups'.  The name change to Raiz and listing on the ASX happened in 2017 before expa...

Dexter talks to Alex Badran, Co-Founder of Spriggy, a pocket money app that helps parents teach their kids all about money. 🐷 As personal users of the Spriggy app for 3 years, we've seen the positive impact the product has on our own kids. And with over 400,000 users we are not alone in our appreciation and ❤ for Spriggy. Our kids love Spriggy so much, they call pocket money, Spriggy money! ...

Dexter talks to John Winters, Co-Founder and CEO of Superhero , a revolutionary investment platform making trading in Australian markets accessible to everyone. This week Superhero announced $8m Series A round backed by ZipCo CEO Larry Diamond and Nick Molnar, Co-Founder of Afterpay 🚀🚀🚀 Co-Founder and CTO Wayne Baskin (Co-Founder of Booktopia and board advisor to Zip Co) complements John's...

Welcome back! And after a short break, who better to help us kick off season two than our wonderful partners, FinTech Australia. CEO Rebecca Schot-Guppy joins me to talk about the Senate Enquiry into Fintech and Senator Braggs recommendations. COVID has had a devastating impact on the economy, despite such challenges FinTech Australia is stronger than ever, gaining more members over the last six m...

In this bumper special Dexter Cousins shines a spotlight on just a few of the Aussie Fintech's doing incredible stuff in the world of business banking and SME Finance. Featuring interviews with leaders from Trade Ledge r, Judo , Prospa and Butn . A special show deserves a special location. Recorded on Sydney's stunning Northern Beaches (Shelley Beach, next to Manly) Dexter is joined by s...

In episode 35 of the Fintech Australia Podcast Dexter is joined by David Birch. David is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He leads 15Mb Ltd , is Technology Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (the London-based think tank), a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School and holds a number of board-level advisory roles . His r...

In Episode 36 of the Fintech Australia Podcast , Dexter is joined by Nick Wilde, APAC Managing Director of Thought Machine . Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Paul Taylor, Thought machine enable banks to deploy modern systems and move away from the legacy IT platforms that plague the banking industry. Thought Machine's cloud native core banking platform, Vault, has been written from scratch as...

In episode 37 of the FinTech Australia Podcast Dexter chats with Shaul David, APAC Region Director of Railsbank. Railsbank enables every business to become a fintech. By solving the pain points of infrastructure, regulation, operation and integration, they help founders, CEO's, product managers and marketers at any company or brand prototype, launch and scale any financial product. Founded by...

In episode 34 of the FinTech Australia Podcast, Dexter is joined by Damir Cuca, CEO of Basiq, an open banking platform enabling developers to build innovative financial solutions. Working with some of Australia's largest banks, backed by Westpacs ReInventure fund and Salesforce and part of the CDR pilot scheme, Damir shares his vision of what open banking could mean for Australia. We also dis...

In episode 33 Dexter Cousins talks to Stuart Grover, CEO and Co-Founder of Look Who's Charging. A technologist and serial entrepreneur, LWC is 12th company founded by Stuart and his first foray into the FinTech world. He also founded a 3D printing business that is tackling some of the huge challenges presented with COVID. LWC is integrated with over 16 banks including all of the big 4 Austral...

In episode 32 of the Fintech Australia Podcast Dexter is joined by Neal Cross, CEO of Picturewealth. PictureWealth helps you get your money matters optimised with the best singular picture of your wealth. Fast growing, profitable and now over $2bn of funds under advice.  As well as being a Board Advisor to one of our favourite clients, Razer Fintech, Neal has the most incredible back story. His co...

In episode 30 Dexter is joined by Joanne Cooper, Founder and CEO of ID Exchange. ID Exchange is an Identity Data Exchange, focused on Privacy Enhancing Technologies with Consent Management, Social Privacy Innovation and Digital Ethics. As Australia enters the open banking era, the work of ID Exchange is critical in ensuring Australians get the most from their data while protecting their privacy an...

The GodFather of Fintech, Brett King joins Dexter to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Moven and with it the 10th birthday of the neo bank. A Melbourne boy, Brett shares his unique story of how an Aussie came to build Moven , and launch the first in-app mobile bank account offered anywhere in the world! Brett also shares his thoughts on the future of Fintech as we discuss his new book, The Rise of...

In episode 29 Dexter is joined by Matt Baxby, Country CEO for Revolut, one of the worlds fastest growing Fintech. Matt shares an insider's view of the Rocket Ship that is Revolut. We discuss their unique approach to building a bank, the relentless focus on the customer, blitz scaling and Revolut's plans for Australia. We delve deeper into Matt's background to talk about his time wor...

This episode we are shining the spotlight on the Tier One People community members. Sue Steel of SuMaHa Collective is a specialist in People, Culture and Scaling. Most recently Sue scaled Aussie Tech success story, NearMap, taking the business from 50 - 300 staff. Sue also took one of Australia's first Fintech, Society One from 30 - 80 people. Sue shares her insights with Dexter Cousins as th...

In Episode 28 of the FinTech Australia Podcast Dexter is joined by Beau Bertoli, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of Australia’s leading online business lender, Prospa. Bringing new thinking to old problems, the team at Prospa are changing the way businesses experience finance through smarter data, proprietary technology and unique customer experiences. Prospa consistently ranks as one of Au...

In episode 27 Dexter is joined by Simon Lee, Co-Founder of Assembly Payments and now Managing Partner at Patona. Simon knows a thing or two about raising capital and scaling Fintech's. As CEO at Assembly Simon has raised $70m and won partnerships with Westpac and Standard Chartered. Patona started life as a bootstrapped tech startup that saw amazing success by running the majority of its busi...

It’s episode 26 and Dexter is joined by Carla Harris, Founder of Longevity App to talk all things WealthTech.  They are on a mission to change everyone’s financial future one cent at a time, by automatically boosting your existing super fund with a little bit extra whenever you spend.  Plus a load of great guests featuring in the show: Christina Hobbs of Verve Super Dan Silver of Stake Pat Garret...

It's episode 25 and to mark such an occasion Dexter is joined by a very special guest who needs no introduction. Anthony Thomson is Co-Founder and Chairman of 86 400, Australia's first Smart Bank.  And with a resume that includes Founder and Chairman of Atom Bank the UKs first mobile-first bank and Metro Bank in the UK, Anthony is one of the world's leading pioneers in digital banki...

In episode 24 Dexter talks to Christian Westerlind Wigstrom of Monoova, an end-to-end payment solution allowing businesses to automate how they receive, manage and pay funds.  Using an API-driven Payment Engine, businesses can scale without worrying about how their transactions are managed. Christian shares his thoughts on a not too distant world where payments will be seamless and just happen as...

In episode 23 Dexter is joined by Fred Schebesta co-founder of Finder, a global personal finance comparison website.   Finder attracts over 10 million visitors each month and employs over 300 staff . Fred spearheaded the group’s venture capital arm, Finder Venture where he thrives in the startup phase of building new business ideas.   For the past 2 years, Fred has been leading the group’s latest...

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 a bunch of our other friends crash the party 🥳🥳🥳 including: Gareth Gumb...

In episode 21 Dexter Cousins talks open banking with Gareth Gumbley, CEO of Frollo. Frollo is on a quest to help Australians feel good about money.  Using the power of technology and community, Frollo’s ecosystem enables clients to build their own unique customer journeys and value propositions. Their SaaS Integration platform brings together an AI engine, API’s, partner integrations and Open Bank...

In episode 19 and today I’m 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 Paypal founders Peter Thiel and Max...

In episode 22 of The FinTech Australia Podcast I am joined by Jonny Wilkinson, 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 shares his personal journe...