🎧🚨 Podcast Announcement 🚨🎧
Super stoked to announce I’m hosting a podcast called ‘Fintech Connect’ through my role at Basiq. It talks to a heap of trends occurring in the domestic and international Fintech scene. My first guest is Vincent Turner from uno and we cover the ‘Great Unbundling’ of banks, Fintech in Silicon Valley v.s. Aus and a ‘Fintech wheel of Fortune’. Subscribe at the page! Ep 1 // Podcast Page
Australian Fintech and Startups
Stripe is increasing their foothold in Australia. A similar article came out about Square last month. Lots of exciting things heating up in the payments space. Link
Beforepay took out a $45m debt facility pre-IPO. Link
Raiz now has $100m FUM. Link
Banking-as-a-Service platform ‘10x’ raised $187m, valuing the company at around ~$700m. Link
Potpourri
The ABC released an awesome web page / data viz on the effects of climate change. Link
CDN Akamai caused a widespread outage for Banks this week, similar to the Fastly CDN disruption last week. Link
Jimmy’s Notes
I did a poll on whether unlicensed Fintech Influencers (‘Finfluencers’) should be allowed to offer financial advice on their platforms. On the one hand it promotes financial literacy, on the other it can involve an ethical dilemma. The results are pretty interesting you can see here. Link 👇🏽
Fascinating topic. Any feedback let me know - would love to digest this a little more.
Trivia
(a) Just one today - tough one. There’s a word that connects the answers to all of the following clues. What is that word?
1) What is a male chicken?
2) What video game came pre-loaded on Nokia phones starting in 1998?
3) This body part is between your shoulder & your wrist.
4) What is a large group of musicians assembled to play classical music?
5) This is a style of dancing to rock music which involves jumping & colliding with other dancers.
Trivia Answers
(a)
(1) Cock
(2) Snake
(3) Arm
(4) Orchestra
(5) Mosh
The word linking them is PIT - cockpit, snake pit, armpit, orchestra pit and mosh pit.
always late to the party but totally subscribed to the podcast ... now you're in the gym with me eww