Fintech Chatter Podcast

Meet Australia's newest bank CEO, Peita Piper of Avenue Bank.

Avenue were recently granted a full ADI banking license and Dexter Cousins chats to Peita about their journey.

In this episode Peita shares the strategy of Avenue and their focus on a niche business banking product neglected by banks, the bank guarantee.

Avenue have digitised this paper process which takes up to 60 days to offer a bank gu...

In episode 182 of Fintech Chatter Podcast Dexter Cousins is joined by Pål Krogdahl, Director of Advisory at Samlink and co-host of Fintech Daydreaming Podcast.

In this episode, Dexter chats with Pål Krogdahl about the Fintech scene in the Nordics. They talk through the latest customer trends and research based on 40-plus banks, revealing the key themes and areas for innovation.

Covering everything from AI to Open ...

Stake Co-Founders Matt Leibowitz and Dan Silver join Dexter Cousins in episode 182 of Fintech Chatter Podcast.

In another one of our 'Origin Stories' Matt and Dan share their incredible journey from becoming friends to becoming business partners. Stake is one of Australia's most successful Fintech. They have raised US $93.5m to date with Tiger Global investing in their $50m Series A in March 2022.

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Dexter Cousins is joined by Chris Jewell, the CEO and Co-Founder of Zepto, one of an emerging number of Fintechs to base themselves from Regional Australia.

Zepto creates real-time, account-to-account [A2A] payment solutions for business. Founded in 2016 and backed by Airtree Ventures, Zepto is one of Australia's fastest growing Fintech.

In this first episode of 2024 Chris chats to Dexter about:

- Th...

Join us for a live recording of Fintech Chatter recorded at the CreditorWatch offices in Sydney.

In part one Dexter Cousins is joined by guests from the podcast to review 2023 as we look back at the key events and share the amazing stories of fintech founders.

Hear from Constantinople, Parpera, LoanOptions, Primer and Prospend.

In part two CreditorWatch CEO, Patrick Coghlan unveils their latest Business R...

In episode 179 of Fintech Chatter Podcast, Dexter Cousins chats to Honey Insurance CEO Richard Joffe

Making his Fintech Chatter debut Richard is CEO and founder of Honey Insurance, arguably Australia's hottest early-stage Fintech! 

Honey Insurance is the smarter way to protect your home and contents. Backed by RACQ, Honey uses sensors in the home to offer a new type of insurer whose focus is on helping avoid accidents ...

In episode 178 of Fintech Chatter Podcast, Dexter Cousins is joined by Ada Guan, CEO and Co-Founder of RDC (Rich Data Co).

About this episode of Fintech Chatter Podcast

Is there a viable use case for AI in banking? 🤔

Making her Fintech Chatter debut Ada Guan CEO of Rich Data Co shares how they are reinventing the way banks assess and provide credit to businesses, using AI.

It's an awesome episode whe...

Ryan Edwards-Pritchard from Cape joins Dexter as they celebrate the fourth anniversary of the very first episode of Fintech Chatter.

Dexter delves through the archives picking his favourite memories from the podcast. And Ryan does a great job of interviewing dexter about the 4 year journey of Fintech Chatter Podcast.

Thank you to all of our guests, partners and co-hosts past and present.

Almost 500,000 li...

Dexter Cousins invites Datamesh CEO Mark Nagy back on the show. Mark made his first appearance 12 months ago as part of our spotlight on the next wave of Aussie Fintech startups. 

One year on from his debut Mark shares his tips on how Datamesh secured $30m Series A funding in the midst of the downturn.

Mark also shares his secrets for winning contracts with global clients like Deutsche Bank and how to expand an Au...

In episode 175 Dexter is joined by a returning guest, Patrick Coghlan of CreditorWatch, a leading Australian data and technology company offering a complete suite of credit reporting products and data insights covering the entire customer lifecycle.

About Patrick Coghlan

Patrick is the CEO of CreditorWatch. In 2010, he became one of the three founding employees of CreditorWatch. He was appointed CEO in December 20...

Dexter Cousins is joined by Sharon Nouh, Founder and CEO  of Prospend in episode 175 of Fintech Chatter.

Prospend automates and digitises all of the business spend processes for businesses.  They build next-generation finance tools that empower businesses to make proactive financial decisions while also enabling their people to be more productive.

Sharon pioneered the expense management market in Australia by deve...

Julian Fayad is the founder & CEO of LoanOptions.ai.  Australia's first AI powered loan marketplace.

It uses AI to match borrowers with the best loan options from over 75+ major banks and lenders to save them thousands of dollars and heaps of time with its one simple application form that does not impact the borrowers credit score. 

Julian represents the next generation of Fintech founder. He's a pi...

Dexter Cousins is joined by Police Bank CEO, Greg McKenna on this weeks Fintech Chatter Podcast.

Dexter and Greg talk through the mutual banking model, the synergies with Fintech and the BIG opportunity for the next wave of Aussie startups like Constantinople.

Check out the episode featuring Constantinople - https://tieronepeople.com/2023/05/19/constantinople-macgregor-duncan/

Greg also shares Police Bank...

Lendi Group Co-founders David Hyman and Sebastian Watkins join Dexter Cousins for this special episode of Fintech Chatter Podcast.

Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Lendi, David and Sebastian share their incredible journey of meeting after Uni and becoming serial entrepreneurs.

Lendi is Australia's fifth largest distributor of mortgages and processes an astonishing $30bn of home loans each year!

Lendi Group Co-founders David Hyman and Sebastian Watkins join Dexter Cousins for this special episode of Fintech Chatter Podcast.

Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Lendi, David and Sebastian share their incredible journey of meeting after Uni and becoming serial entrepreneurs.

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Welcome to part three of our three part Fintech Chatter series recorded live from the British Consulate in Sydney. 

Back in 2018 I began supporting the work of the UK Department of Business and Trade in their efforts to establish a UK/Aus fintech bridge.

Each year a UK Fintech Mission heads down under as part of Intersekt week.

It’s a fantastic opportunity not only to showcase what Australia has to offer, but to learn from our UK cous...

In this special episode Dexter Cousins chats with Jenny Li and Giles Bourne of Scalare Partners.

With Investment in Australian Fintech industry back to 2018 figures, there's no doubt that the no1 challenge facing founders is finding capital.

We are seeing a rapidly growing gap in the technology capital eco-system, abandoning early-stage founders exactly when they need access to funding the most. Scalare Part...

Welcome to part two of a three part Fintech Chatter special recorded live from the British Consulate in Sydney with your host Dexter Cousins.

Back in 2018 Tier One People began supporting the work of the UK Department of Business and Trade in their efforts to establish a UK/Aus fintech bridge.

Each year a UK Fintech Mission heads down under as part of Intersekt week.

It’s a fantastic opportunity not only to showcas...

Welcome to part one of a three part podcast series recorded live from the British Consulate in Sydney.

Back in 2018 I began supporting the work of the UK Department for Business and Trade in their efforts to establish a UK/Australia fintech bridge.

Each year a UK Fintech Mission heads down under as part of Intersekt week.

It’s a fantastic opportunity not only to showcase what Australia has to offer, but to learn from our UK cousins.

So...