From newsroom life to building a challenger media brand — John McDuling has seen Australia’s business journalism landscape transform. 📰
Live from Intersekt, Chris Titley chats with John McDuling, founding editor and chief of Capital Brief, about:
📝 Why quality journalism still cuts through in an algorithm-driven world
💥 How breaking stories — like the ANZ jobs saga — show the appetite for fresh perspectives
🌐 How distribution dynamics are shifting across LinkedIn, Google, and new media platforms
🧠 What it takes to build a newsroom culture that attracts talent back to journalism
🚀 Why Capital Brief is betting on hard facts and actionable news, not opinion pieces
A thoughtful conversation on media, fintech, and building something new in a changing landscape.
SME lending, AI credit models, and a patchy economy — David Carbines covers it all in this lively Intersekt chat.
Chris Titley sits down with David Carbines, founder of Cogsflow, to unpack:
💼 How Cogsflow has navigated a year of rapid growth and shifting economic conditions
🤖 Why they’re cautiously integrating AI into their credit models — and why “smart but ill-disciplined employees” is the perfect metaphor for LLMs
🌏 How global trade shifts are influencing Aussie SMEs’ expansion plans
⚡ The tech priorities driving better merchant experiences, speed, and sustainable growth
🔥 Why intersecting with the fintech ecosystem in Melbourne remains invaluable for interstate founders
A candid conversation on fintech strategy, AI experimentation, and staying sharp in a fast-moving market.
Payments, partnerships, and a buzzing fintech ecosystem. 🇦🇺
Live from Intersekt, Chris Titley chats with Ian Cragg about:
💼 How his company is scaling through enterprise partnerships, from accountants to major tech platforms
🏦 Why banks remain their biggest competitors — and where challengers are winning on pricing, service, and UX
🚀 The state of fintech in Australia and the opportunities for emerging companies to expand globally
🌐 How licensing and overseas growth remain key hurdles for ambitious fintechs
🔥 His first Intersekt experience — and what makes the community unique and energetic
A lively conversation on the realities of competing with banks, building strategic partnerships, and the momentum driving Australian fintech forward.
R&D is one of Australia’s most powerful — yet underused — innovation levers.
Live from Intersekt, Chris Titley chats with Alex Knight, co-founder of Advanced, about:
💸 How Advanced unlocks non-dilutive capital to help startups accelerate their R&D and growth
📈 Why the R&D Tax Incentive is critical to Australia’s innovation economy — and where the opportunity lies
🚀 The $60M worth of transactions they’ve enabled in just 18 months
🧠 The mindset shift founders experience when they see how Advance fits into their capital strategy
🌏 Why Australia must get better at commercialising research to stay globally competitive
A smart, energising conversation on capital, innovation, and fuelling the next generation of Aussie tech.
FinTech Week has officially arrived — and Vinnie D'Alessandro has a front-row seat to the ecosystem in full flight.
Live from Intersekt, Chris Titley chats with Vinnie about:
🇦🇺 Why expanding Intersekt into a full FinTech Week has supercharged connections and dealmaking
🏦 How major banks, investors, and startups are converging in Melbourne to collaborate and compete
🤝 The unique culture of the fintech community — where competitors grab beers together and introductions happen on the fly
🤖 Why the real impact of AI in fintech will come from faster product cycles and smarter use cases, not just hype
🔥 His love for the Fintech 50 pitch session and the energy it brings to close out the week
A vibrant conversation capturing the buzz, optimism, and pace of Australia’s fintech scene in 2025.
Data sharing is the backbone of fintech’s next wave — and Fiskil is right in the middle of it.
Live from Intersekt, Chris Titley chats with Jacob Parker from Fiskil about:
🔐 How Fiskil helps banks, lenders, and high-growth tech companies securely share and access data
🌊 Why Australia’s multi-industry Consumer Data Right (CDR) is admired globally — and where it needs to keep pushing
🤖 How AI is being adopted across the ecosystem to build new use cases
🇦🇺 The state of fintech in Australia in 2025 and what the next wave of startups could look like
📈 Fiskil’s growth journey and ambitions as open banking volumes ramp up
A sharp conversation on data, regulation, and the future of fintech infrastructure.
From IPO turbulence to profitability — and a booming AI analytics business.
Chris Titley sits down with Jamie Twiss, CEO of ASX-listed Beforepay and Carrington Labs, to unpack:
💰 How Beforepay turned its lending business around, achieving $6.7M profit and writing 40,000 loans a week with just 50 staff
🧠 Why Carrington Labs was born from their in-house risk models — and is now growing fast in North America
🤖 Jamie’s refreshingly honest take on AI hype vs. real utility in fintech
📈 How disciplined cost control and sharp strategy helped the company thrive post-IPO downturn
A sharp, funny, and insightful chat with one of Australia’s most data-driven fintech leaders.
Mortgage brokers are the superheroes — and Stryd is the cape. 🦸♂️
Live from Intersekt, Chris Titley sits down with Ruth Hatherley from Stryd , to explore:
🏡 How Stryd uses CDR data to compare 5,000+ mortgage products from over 200 lenders
💰 Why the mortgage use case for open banking can save households thousands — not just hundreds
⚡ The power of data-driven insights to help brokers retain clients and fight the “loyalty tax”
🔄 How the product evolved from digital mortgage origination to retention-as-a-service
🧠 Ruth’s measured approach to embedding AI while handling sensitive financial data
A brilliant look at how open banking is transforming Australia’s mortgage market — and the brokers driving it forward.
Open banking is evolving fast — and for PocketSmith, 2025 has been a breakout year.
At Intersekt, Chris Titley chats with co-founder Jason Leong about:
🌐 Why open banking is like early-stage Wi-Fi — and the three things it needs to go mainstream: trust, utility, and storytelling
🇦🇺 How Australia has become PocketSmith’s biggest market, with over 82,000 users
🧠 The company’s careful approach to AI and product development
💬 How customer feedback shapes their roadmap and culture
✨ The joy of building a product that genuinely improves people’s financial lives
A thoughtful conversation with one of fintech’s quiet achievers, captured live in Melbourne.
FinTech Australia is celebrating 10 years — and Intersekt 2025 has marked a milestone moment for the ecosystem.
Chris Titley sits down with CEO Rehan D'Almeida to unpack:
🇦🇺 How Intersekt has evolved into Australia’s flagship fintech gathering, attracting 1,000+ attendees
💬 The big themes shaping conversations this year — from funding challenges to regulatory certainty
📈 What the next 10 years could look like for Australian fintech as AI, policy shifts, and industry maturity converge
🤝 The vital role FinTech Australia plays as the sector’s voice to government and regulators
🔥 And why Rehan still finds the fast-evolving industry exciting after eight years at the helm
A fitting conversation to close out a buzzing week for Australian fintech.
What would you do if I handed you a million dollars to grow your business?
That’s the question Jodie Iman has been asking founders at Intersekt — and the answers have been fascinating.
In this episode, Chris Titley chats with Jodie about:
💰 How Tractor Ventures has deployed over $100M to 250+ companies
🚀 Why 2025 has marked a return to growth in the alternative capital landscape
🌱 The power of community and peer support in helping founders scale
🏛 Her dual role at FinTech Australia and the policy momentum driving the sector forward
🧢 Plus, some personal insights on hiring, delegation, and scaling smart through Outposter
A lively conversation on capital, community, and the future of fintech in Australia.
Banking Circle has made major moves in 2025 — securing regulatory approval to acquire Australian Settlements Limited and positioning itself as the bank for fintech in Australia.
At Intersekt, Chris Titley catches up with Piers Cracknell, GM at BC Payments Australia (Banking Circle)
💬 Why Intersekt has become a cornerstone for the fintech community
🏦 How Banking Circle’s local strategy has evolved since launching in Sydney four years ago
🌏 The role it plays in enabling Australian fintechs to scale globally (and vice versa)
💡 Key trends shaping payments right now — from PayID and PayTo to stablecoins and AI
✈️ Plus, Piers shares his surprisingly efficient international travel tips
A sharp look at how global banking infrastructure is meeting Australia’s fast-maturing fintech ecosystem.
In this episode of Scoreboard, Chris Titley is joined by the co-founders of Faybl—George Lucas, Leonard Choo, and Steven Goh—to explore the next frontier of financial services.
With decades of experience across fintech, advisory, and digital infrastructure, the trio explains how Faybl is using AI to close the global advice gap.
From building scalable tools for financial planners to reimagining client engagement through "general agents," the team unpacks the vision, challenges, and global opportunities ahead.
They also share how AI is helping planners save time, improve compliance, and provide dynamic, real-time advice—without replacing the human touch.
Whether you're a financial professional or just curious about where AI and money management intersect, this episode is a fascinating look behind the innovation reshaping the advice industry.
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The interview is with Patrick William, co-founder of Rixon Capital, a private credit fund that provides non-dilutive debt funding to emerging companies.
Rixon focuses on loan sizes from $1 million without taking equity warrants, offering an alternative to equity financing or larger debt facilities.
Patrick discusses Rixon's origin, target market, advantages of debt over equity, progress since inception, loan terms, due diligence process, future plans to grow their fund size, and how they aim to educate the market on their offering, particularly in the fintech space.
Chris Titley discusses Nexxtap, a software point-of-sale (soft POS) solution developed by an Australian company.
Ryley Morton, the marketing manager, explains that Nexxtap is a mobile application that allows businesses to accept card payments using NFC-enabled Android devices, eliminating the need for traditional payment terminals or card readers.
He highlights the benefits of Nexxtap, including faster transactions, better consumer experience, scalability, and affordability with a flat 1.25% transaction fee and no additional costs.
Morton emphasises Nexxtap's focus on security and compliance, with military-grade encryption, PCI compliance, and a stateless app design for enhanced data protection.
The company aims to target local merchants initially and then expand to larger enterprises.
Morton also hints at exciting future developments and integrations in the pipeline.
This is a podcast interview with Bailey Smith and Sam Stanley, co-founders of Trybe a startup that has developed a mobile app marketplace connecting private barbers with customers.
They discuss the origins of the business idea, the process of building and launching the app, key features and functionality, marketing strategies, expansion plans, and the challenges and experiences of being startup founders.
The interview covers topics such as the app's user and barber interfaces, social media marketing campaigns, feature prioritization based on barber feedback, plans for geographic expansion to New Zealand and potentially the US market, and the highs and lows of the startup journey.
The is an interview with Steven Furman, the founder and CEO of PayTime, a company that provides earned wage access solutions to help employees access their earned wages before payday without taking out loans or going into debt.
Steven discusses the origins of PayTime, which stemmed from observing frontline workers living paycheck to paycheck and struggling with unexpected expenses. He explains how PayTime integrates with payroll and time attendance systems to allow employees to access a portion of their earned wages (typically 50%) after each shift.
The solution aims to improve financial wellness, reduce stress, and increase productivity for both employees and employers.
Steven also discusses the growth of the earned wage access industry globally, with widespread adoption among Fortune 500 companies. In Australia, PayTime has been operating for about three years and has gained traction with various brands across industries like hospitality, retail, healthcare, and mining services.
Steven highlights the benefits for employers, such as reduced staff turnover, increased productivity, and cost savings. He also touches on the future plans for PayTime, aiming to become the leading financial wellbeing solution for frontline workers and promoting the concept of real-time access to earned wages.
The podcast was with Chris Titley and Evan Thornley, the co-founder and CEO of Longview. Evan discusses his background in the Australian technology industry, including founding one of the first Australian tech companies listed on NASDAQ.
He then explains the motivation behind starting Longview, which aims to address issues in the Australian residential property market such as housing affordability, rental instability, and poor investment returns for landlords.
Longview's solution is to create a housing fund industry in Australia, similar to those in other countries, where investors can invest in residential property through funds rather than directly owning individual properties.
Evan describes Longview's first fund, a shared equity fund where the company co-invests with homeowners and homebuyers, providing equity in exchange for a share of future capital growth. He outlines the investment strategy of targeting 'RODWELLS' (Robust, Older Dwellings on Well-located Land) to capitalise on the long-term appreciation of well-located suburban land. Evan envisions Longview pioneering a vibrant housing fund industry in Australia within the next decade, offering diversified investment opportunities and solutions for housing affordability and rental stability.
This Podcast is an interview with Michael Baker, CEO and Managing Director of Arovella Therapeutics , a biotechnology company focused on developing cell therapies for cancer treatment. Michael discusses his background, transitioning from a research scientist to venture capital and then joining Arovella in 2020. He explains Arovella's work on CAR-iNKT cell therapies, which involve genetically reprogramming a patient's immune cells to target and kill cancer cells.
Michael highlights the advantages of Arovella's approach over traditional CAR-T cell therapies, including faster manufacturing, lower costs, and the ability to treat multiple patients from a single manufacturing run.
He outlines recent milestones, such as completing the manufacturing process development and scaling up for clinical trials. Michael also discusses the competitive landscape, potential partnerships and acquisitions in the cell therapy sector, target markets, and upcoming milestones for Aravella, including regulatory submissions, animal studies, and exploring new technologies.
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The article is an interview with Scott Austin, CEO of PayLab, a company that provides wage access and rewards platform for employees.
Scott discusses his background in technology and how PayLab was founded by a baker and property developer to address the need for wage advances.
He explains that the company has pivoted from solely offering wage advances to also providing a rewards platform with digital gift cards and discounts at various retailers. Scott highlights the growing market for responsible wage access solutions, especially during tough economic times.
He shares insights into PayLab's user demographics, average spending on the platform ($550 per month), and partnerships with companies like Rent.com to enable rent payments through rewards.
Looking ahead, Scott aims to scale the business by introducing more payment options, savings initiatives, and premium rewards categories like travel and wine.
