Fintech Chatter: Insights From Fintech Leaders

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 a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

Thank you to Mastercard 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 a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

Thank you to Mastercard 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 a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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 cashflow management tools to its 3.3 million customers in Australia.To our knowledge, no other such partnership exists in the world of Fintech. Further partnerships with Society One demonstrate Westpac's desire to work with Fintech rather than compete.As we head into Intersekt Festival 2021 Macgregor talks candidly of the challenges facing incumbent banks. He also shares his thoughts on how banks can adapt and become part of a very exciting but uncertain future.About Macgregor DuncanMacgregor leads Westpac’s corporate and business development team, where he’s responsible for M&A, strategic investments and partnerships. He is also the Co-CEO of Westpac’s new digital bank.Before joining Westpac in 2016, Macgregor was a managing director at a US private equity firm, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and a corporate lawyer in New York. Macgregor graduated from Adelaide, Princeton and Harvard Universities, and is the co-author of Imagining Australia: Ideas For Our Future (Allen & Unwin 2004).Macgregor is currently a non-executive director at the Australian Business Growth Fund, and sits on the board of 10x Future Technologies in the UK.Send us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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 Fintech Awards, the Finnies just three weeks later!Rebecca shares plans for the events and what you can expect from FA over the coming months. If you can't make it we'll be bringing you all of the action in a bumper podcast after the event.And get set for binge-listening as Tier One People and FinTech Australia launches the People’s Choice podcasts at Intersekt Thursday 20th May. Remember every unique listen goes to the vote count for your favourite Fintechs!If you’d like to attend Intersekt go to intersektfestival.comTo attend the Finnies go to https://www.thefinnies.org.au/Send us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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 business is hiring a diverse group of talented people. The stats show diversity isn't just the right thing to do for society, but it makes a positive impact on a companies financial performance. But with Fintech lagging behind other sectors when it comes to diversity, how can founders go about bridging the gender gap and building diverse teams?Tune in as Emma, Sophie and Dexter share their insights and tips on how to hire the right people, build high performing teams and keep everyone happy, motivated and fulfilled.About EmmaEmma Jones has amassed a career in all things talent, that spans more than 25 years across global markets.  After building an enterprise channel for tech start-up specialists Mitchellake Emma joined fast growth SaaS company, Ansarada as Global Head of Talent, scaling to more than double its headcount in two years.Emma founded Men Championing Change (Sydney & Melbourne) before embarking on her current venture, Project F.Project F is a for-profit, social impact business helping companies around the world to surface and remove the systemic and structural derailers that cause women to quit tech mid-career. To find out more about Project F and the 50/50 Program mentioned in the show: https://www.projectf.com.au/program-50-50Men Championing Change: https://www.meetup.com/Men-Championing-Change-Meetup/About SophieSophie Theen is a Talent and HR professional with a particular focus on Fintech. Studying a Bachelor of Engineering at Monash and a MBA at Melbourne Business School, Sophie has gained notable experience in Australia and Europe. As first HR person at Revolut, Sophie helped scale the business from 30-500 people. She then joined 11:FS as Global Head of HR and Talent supporting 300% growth.Now at Oakam Group as Chief People and Customer Officer, Sophie brings a unique approach to the role of Talent and HR.Sophie's working is consistently recognised by the industry as a Standout 35 of the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist 2018, 2019, 2020 Diversity Advocate and LeaderYou can connect with Sophie - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophietheen/And find out more about Oakam - https://www.oakam.com/about-us/careers/Send us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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’s a real opportunity to create another Aussie Fintech unicorn.About AnsaradaFounded by Sam and Rachel Riley in 2005 Ansarada. In late 2020 Ansarada merged with thedocyard and Athena Board to create .May 4th is not only Star Wars day but also marks the launch of Ansarada Deals. A comprehensive solution for transactions, the Deals solution tackles three of the biggest challenges facing every exec team and board, workforce collaboration, data security and compliance.It's an exciting time for the business as the company aims for global domination.Stuart shares his approach to being a founder and some of the lessons he has learned along the way. We talk about the advantages of being open to opportunities and having a flexible approach to growth and scaling.Send us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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 another Fintech Chatter guest, Agridigital as CTO.Backed by Square Peg Capital and founded by Emma Weston and Bob McKay, Agridigital is an Australian Fintech providing farmers with a digital way to manage grain from production to payment anywhere, anytime.Jins chats about how Agridigital is combining technologies across blockchain,  smart contracts, Defi and peer 2 peer lending to revolutionise the farming industry.Jins also shares how his past experience as a professional soccer coach influences his approach to building and leading tech teams.You can find out more about AgridigitalConnect with JinsAnd finally, we promised to plug Jins' latest passion projectStylish CTO - https://www.instagram.com/stylishcto/And also check out https://www.mys-tyler.com/Send us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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 Checkbox team have built a platform that empowers employees to build software without the need for coding.Through this work, Evan has helped redefine manual processes around risk and compliance with a focus on applying innovation with ruthless practicality. Evan is a serial entrepreneur and was the Founder of the award-winning business Hero Education which he started at the age of 17. In 2019 Evan was listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 (and he still qualifies!)To find out more about Checkbox https://checkbox.ai/You can connect with Evan https://www.linkedin.com/in/theevanwong/JOB OF THE WEEK - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2483587095Send us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp

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 Australia as a means to drive innovation in service delivery across all sectors of the economy.Steve shares his candid views of where the industry is at in Australia and what Government and industry needs to do to make Australia a real innovator in the space.For more info go to https://blockchainaustralia.org/To attend Blockchain Week go to https://www.blockchainweek.com.au/Follow Steve on LinkedinSend us a textSubscribe Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/fintech-leaders-7092732051488980992/Connect on Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3DsCJBp