In this episode, Chris Titley chats to Daryn Griggs, Managing Director - APAC of Episode Six. 

We delve in to legacy banking systems, the advantages and challenges of cloud based banking as well as the opportunity at large. 

Payments, Core banking infrastructure , card issuance and the adoption of mobile technology are all topics we cover in this podcast. 

• Gold coast based Send Payments raised $11.5m in a Series B round 💵 to accelerate opportunities in Australia & offshore 🌎

•Brisbane based ASX listed Change Financial
secured A$6.9m in new fundjng from US-based fintech entrepreneur & investor Michael Giles 👋🏻

•Sydney based Shift raised 💰 $27m to help scale their receivables & to make further investment in tech 💻 and data 💿 ✅

• Experian announced the appointment of data aggregation and analytics platform Envestnet | Yodlee as its official Open Data API provider in Australia. 🇦🇺🔗

• Commonwealth Bank announced a NPAT of $5.15b for 1H23 🗂️ Matt Comyn CEO, said: “Our strategic focus on building tomorrow’s bank 🏦today for our customers is illustrated by our leading outcomes on customer advocacy scores.”

• Westpac will offer its credit card 💳 customers more flexible payment options with the introduction of "PartPay", allowing their customers to pay for purchases in four instalments. ¼ 📆

• Commonwealth Bank announced 📣 it has connected customers to $1b of grants, rebates & concessions through their Benefits finder 🔬- More than 2.2 million claims were started by personal and business customers between January 2019 and December 2022.

• Carolyn Breeze GAICD announced she is joining as CEO at Scalare Partners
- with portfolio companies such as FrankieOne
and Cape + more 👋

In this episode, Chris Titley chats to Daryn Griggs, Managing Director - APAC of Episode Six. 

We delve in to legacy banking systems, the advantages and challenges of cloud based banking as well as the opportunity at large. 

Payments, Core banking infrastructure , card issuance and the adoption of mobile technology are all topics we cover in this podcast. 

• Barry Kogan, Jonathan Henry and Rob Smith, partners of McGrathNicol were appointed Joint and Several Receivers and Managers (Receivers and Managers) of ASX listed Openpay 🗂️

• Qantas launched “Qantas Money Home Loan” powered by Adelaide based Tic:Toc 🏠🛫

• Sydney based Bridgit partnered 🤝 with outsource Financial . This marks the latest aggregator partnership for Bridgit and expands its total network to more than 3400 brokers. 🔗outsource Financial (outsource), alone, works with more than 1000 brokers.

• Brisbane based Alex.Bank launched their new Term Deposit product, further bolstering its growing product portfolio. 💰📈

• Sydney based Skript launched Transkript, a plug and play 👾 application used to securely request & receive open banking data.

In the first episode of 2023 - we chat to Brett Turley from Bit Leave. 

Brett shares his story from trips to Afghanistan  to becoming a fintech founder and why he is on a mission to help employees. 

We chat about annual leave, employee wellness, long service leave and the opportunities fintechs have to be embedded in the workforce. 

In the first episode of 2023 - we chat to Brett Turley from Bit Leave. 

Brett shares his story from trips to Afghanistan  to becoming a fintech founder and why he is on a mission to help employees. 

We chat about annual leave, employee wellness, long service leave and the opportunities fintechs have to be embedded in the workforce.

In today's podcast Chris Titley and Rachel Hopping talk about the week that was in fintech. Rachel  has just joined FA in her role of Head of Strategic Partnerships.  We talk about how this role came about as well as why she is excited about 2023!
This will be the last FA podcast for 2022 - we hope all members have a safe and relaxing break and we will see you (on the airwaves) in 2023! 

Today we chat with Karthik Srinivasan  from Ziksu about Scan and Pay. We've seen large adoption offshore about QR codes - but will Australia also adopt this shift?

Ziksu is a company involved in this sector and Karthik chats about the methods, the ups and downs and existing trends in fintech.

Today we chat with Karthik Srinivasan  from Ziksu about Scan and Pay. We've seen large adoption offshore about QR codes - but will Australia also adopt this shift?

Ziksu is a company involved in this sector and Karthik chats about the methods, the ups and downs and existing trends in fintech.

Hannah Glass ,  Senior Associate King & Wood Mallesons joins us for a chat. 

KWM’s specialist team is at the forefront of legal and technological developments in blockchain technology, having worked with governments, banks, industry bodies and start-ups around the world.

Hannah chats about smart contracts,  application use, the recent events with cryptocurrency , consensus mechanisms, data, money and a lot more!