It’s the year 2000. The word fintech is but a mere twinkle in the eyes of the future disruptors of finance, but, in a Goldman Sachs deal room, most likely even unbeknownst to the MBA educated financiers present, the seeds of one […]
Author: Jessica Ellerm
Banking’s ethical blindspot – why the brain’s to blame
One in five UK and US financial services employees believe they or their colleagues must at least sometimes engage in illegal or unethical activity to be successful. If you’re thinking that statistic dates back to 2008/09, at […]
Fintonic founder proves it pays to get personal with your money
Managing your finances. The very thought of it makes many of us want to stick our head in the sand until next pay day. Unfortunately, ignorance in the field of money management is not bliss. […]
Mitchel Harad – The SocietyOne CMO with a relentless focus on scale
Australia’s first peer-to-peer lender, SocietyOne, has quite possibly landed one of the best marketing brains in the fintech space, in the shape of Mitchel Harad, former Vice President of Marketing at market darling Lending Club. It’s another coup for […]
Is surprise and delight fintech’s secret weapon?
Today I had the fortune to meet with a serious, global, fintech heavyweight, recently arrived to Australia. I won’t tell you who just yet, that’s the subject of an upcoming post I’d rather surprise you with a […]
Growth hack your way to fintech stardom
No matter what buzzing metropolis you find yourself in, no matter what fintech hub or innovation lab, one word is on everyone’s lips – growth. The holy grail of the modern startup’s quest, finding the elusive ingredients that […]
Fintech tackles Generation Squeeze
They’ve studied harder and longer than any generation before them, pulling longer hours at the office, and sometimes even holding two jobs at once. Yet many seem to feel they are ‘standing still’, thanks to […]
Does banking have to be boring?
Banking at its heart is incredibly boring. Let’s face it, adding figures on one ledger and subtracting from another is a mind numbingly dull task for the best of us. Just take your own monthly budget. […]
Jost Stollmann – The Fintech Entrepreneur With An Attraction for Mission Impossible
This is the first in a series of profiles on Australia’s leading Fintech Entrepreneurs. CEO of Tyro Payments, Jost Stollmann, is not your everyday briefcase wielding, cappuccino sipping banking executive. In fact, until he’d stepped […]
Can small business make it out of the banking too hard basket?
According to the RBA, Australian SMEs represent about 95 per cent of the over 2 million actively trading businesses in Australia. In total, they are considered to account for 68 percent of all industry employment and […]
