FinTech Australia's Podcast

* Melbourne based FrankieOne announced 📣 they raised $23m as part of an extension of their Series A to take the total funding for the round to $45m. 💰✅

* Commonwealth Bank partnered with Paydock for the launch of “Powerboard” / a “plug in” 🔌for merchants to access payment methods through a single platform. 🍽️

* Nauggets partnered with Azupay to help with instant and automatic payments in Buying, saving and spending 📲 gold ⭐️

* ASX listed Payright announced a capital raising 💵 to raise up to $5.03 million via a placement & an underwritten entitlement offer

* Online home loan marketplace JOUST partnered 🤝 with Nectar Mortgages to provide Australian 🇦🇺 borrowers with a fast, easy, seamless home loan application process ⚡️ and also ensure a constant flow of lead generation for Nectar Mortgage brokers.

* Brisbane based Ettle successfully facilitated a pilot 🛫 transaction between business clients on its stablecoin infrastructure platform 🔗 using the digital Australian 🦘 dollar token "AUDE".

5 bite sized pieces of information from the week that was in Fintech here in Australia. 

In this podcast we chat to Patrick Coghlan CEO of Creditor Watch about the background of his business, their recent acquisition of Debtor Daddy and some views on further M&A in the sector. Could 2023 could be the year of consolidation for fintechs?  

In this podcast we chat to Patrick Coghlan CEO of Creditor Watch about the background of his business, their recent acquisition of Debtor Daddy and some views on further M&A in the sector. Could 2023 could be the year of consolidation for fintechs?  

In the latest episode we chat to  Mandeep Sandhu , Country Lead, Australia and New Zealand at Personetics about PFM (Personal Financial Management)  and it's application use here locally v global offshore markets. 

We chat about how sophisticated PFM's are - what they can achieve and what they as the hurdles and barriers in some situations. 

We talk about budgeting, financial literacy as well as overall behaviours when it comes to money. 

We've uploaded the recording of the EY FinTech Australia Census Webcast 2022 

This was a live recording featuring the following speakers on the event :

Hon Ed Husic MP
Member for Chifley
Federal Minister for Industry and Science

Malia Forner (moderator)
EY Partner
Government Incentives and Oceania Start-up & Entrepreneurship Leader

May Lam
EY Partner
Financial Services Technology Consulting

David Camerlengo
Head of technology and Manufacturing CoE,
Australian Trade & Investment Commission (Austrade)

Kim Teo
CEO
Mr Yum

Dominic Pym
Board Member
FinTech Australia

Anthony Jones
Head of Innovation and Partnerships, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific
Visa

We've uploaded the recording of the EY FinTech Australia Census Webcast 2022 

This was a live recording featuring the following speakers on the event :

Hon Ed Husic MP
Member for Chifley
Federal Minister for Industry and Science

Malia Forner (moderator)
EY Partner
Government Incentives and Oceania Start-up & Entrepreneurship Leader

May Lam
EY Partner
Financial Services Technology Consulting

David Camerlengo
Head of technology and Manufacturing CoE,
Australian Trade & Investment Commission (Austrade)

Kim Teo
CEO
Mr Yum

Dominic Pym
Board Member
FinTech Australia

Anthony Jones
Head of Innovation and Partnerships, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific
Visa

In this episode we chat with Vinnie D'Alessandro from ASX listed Change Financial about the rise in card payments globally (particularly within Australia) and where Australia sits. 

We chat all things wallets, QR, Pins as well the advancement of technology from larger more non traditional finance companies.  Vinnie also talks KYC and we chat about some recent musings from Money 2020. 

In this episode we chat with Vinnie D'Alessandro from ASX listed Change Financial about the rise in card payments globally (particularly within Australia) and where Australia sits. 

We chat all things wallets, QR, Pins as well the advancement of technology from larger more non traditional finance companies.  Vinnie also talks KYC and we chat about some recent musings from Money 2020. 

In this episode we dissect Angel investing in Australia - for investors and importantly  fintech founders. 

We chat with Cheryl Mack - who helps angel investors build their own portfolio deal-by-deal alongside notable lead investors via her company Aussie Angels. 

Cheryl talks about the opportunities, the risks and how it can be used as a sound investment option for founders as syndicates  grow in popularity.