The FinTech Report
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The FinTech Report Podcast is a deep dive into the people, platforms, and businesses in the fintech sector; I'm your host Glen Frost, and in each episode, I'll be talking with a leading expert in the fintech field we'll be discussing a broad range of topics and issues from Ai, Core Banking, Payments, Wealth, Lending and FinTech-Bank Partnerships.
The FinTech Report
2w ago
The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 47: Interview with Alexandre Chavotier, Co-Founder at Upworth
“Money works better when it’s all in one place; Upworth is a dashboard to rule them all,” says Alex
“For decades the greatest advantage for financial institutions was their monopolistic hold of your personal data … open banking changed that”
“You can refinance your mortgage within the Upworth App,”
About Alex:
● Co-founder and CEO of Upworth
● Started career in investment banking in Europe before working at McKinsey and Quantum Black in S ..read more
The FinTech Report
1M ago
Systematic change requires collective action
Misha has worked at a number of exciting high growth companies in tech as well as some well known brands in finance and banking, including Boston Consulting Group, the Commonwealth Bank, Uber, startups Eucalyptus (healthcare) and Vow (cultured meat).
Misha is the co-founder of Grapevine. Grapevine empowers individuals in Australia's tech scene by spotlighting personal stories and insights. Grapevine provides advice based on lived experience and general legal know-how, to reshape power dynamics for a safer, more inclusive environment.
1.What is th ..read more
The FinTech Report
2M ago
“Plan your home loan and financial life to be portable,” says Gino Farina
“A large part of my job is financial coach, but we use plenty of technology to help us”
In this episode we cover:
1. There are 19,000 mortgage brokers in Australia; they run their own business, and are paid by the banks/others when they write loans and recommend other products.
2. What does a mortgage broker do? Explanation of how brokers help clients, especially educating people about finance
3. Who are your customers? Individuals, couples, busi ..read more
The FinTech Report
5M ago
Expanding access to home ownership: how Own Home is creating homeowners for the next generation of Australians
James Bowe Co-Founder of Own Home. OwnHome’s mission is to turn renters into homeowners. James background includes over 7 years with Bain & Co in the USA, UK and Europe, and stints at UBS, Macquarie Bank, a Barrister’s assistant and a debating coach.
https://ownhome.com/
The essence of OwnHome is a loan for your deposit - just 2.2% and Stamp Duty to secure a loan up to 100% of the property value.
The example they give is Instead of saving $340K for a traditional ..read more
The FinTech Report
6M ago
Philippa Watson is CEO of ubank, an award-winning digital bank owned by National Australia Bank. Prior to ubank, Philippa held a range of senior executive roles spanning digital banking, technology, operations, customer service, sales, finance, risk management, compliance, and strategy. These roles have involved accountability for functions in Australia, USA, UK, China and South Africa.
Philippa is passionate about the role organisations can and should play in community wellbeing. She believes that banks should offer customers accessible, uncomplicated, and high-tech banking services to help ..read more
The FinTech Report
7M ago
The FinTech Report Podcast: Episode 42: Max Cunningham, CEO, FCX
FCX describes itself as “A new era for private markets. FCX helps companies better manage their investors and securities.”
FCX was conceived and built for the private investment sector with the simple goal to replicate the listed market ‘user experience’ for unlisted assets. As a result, we are Australia’s first universal equity management platform built specifically for private companies. FCX enables unlisted companies to manage their cap table, employee equity, capital raising process, shareholder liquidity and much mor ..read more
The FinTech Report
8M ago
Mike Page, CEO Asia Pacific, Mogo Plus
To understand responsible lending for home loans; “We argue against HEM because the data tells the truth,” says Mike Page, Mogo Plus.
“We enable enterprises to make fully informed customer decisions through descriptive and predictive data insights,” adds Mike.
“We are now in the CDR 2.0 phase; let’s focus on the customer – we will move towards more personalisation in financial services, more pro-active, and less reactive,” says Mike Page
“Let’s get Open Banking right before we go to other sectors”
Mike Page CEO Asia Pacific of Mo ..read more
The FinTech Report
8M ago
Contact: Mark Tibbles mtibbles@asl.com.au
Delighted to welcome Mark Tibbles, CEO of Australian Settlements Limited or ASL.
Mark is a Payments guy having spent most of the last 25 years in the payments sector, including stints at CBA, NAB, Westpac, Clydesdale & Yorkshire Bank, Verifone and Wirecard. Since 2019 Mark has been leading the ASL Team in the shift from aggregator to a next generation Payments Platform service provider.
ASL is an Authorised Deposit Taking Institution (ADI) regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and a provider of B2B ‘P ..read more
The FinTech Report
8M ago
Can Parpera empower the business owner to run their company better?
Daniel discusses the three key things that all business owners want from a fintech or bank:
1. Help them receive money simply and easily
2. Help them understand and manage cash flow and tax obligations
3. Help them gain access to support services (not just banking products)
Daniel is the Founder and CEO of Parpera, an Australian fintech that aspires to empower people to improve the prosperity of the communities, and societies they’re a part of, through making it easier to do business.
Parpera provides everything you need to ..read more
The FinTech Report
9M ago
Super Rewards can help bridge Australia's gender ‘Super Gap’
We’ve all heard of the gender pay gap, but what about the ‘Super Gap’ where women have significantly lower balances of Superannuation at retirement than men?
Super Rewards wants to help fix this – in this interview we discuss how Super Rewards links e-commerce (instant rewards) with Superannuation (long term rewards).
Super Rewards is an elegant solution to help fix a long standing and complex problem.
PLUS: listen to the end of the podcast with a special offer from Pascale and Super Rewards!
We are delighted to welcome ..read more