S10E10 Block Earner

Block Earner has a WORLDCHANGING idea – use decentralised finance – ‘DeFi’ – to offer better yields than bank deposits: banking without a bank. Co-founder Jordan Momtazi joins TWISTA to explain how it all works, how they make money, and how Block Earner navigates customer requirements for high yield amidst an ongoing ‘crypto winter’.

TWISTA S10E10 Block Earner

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Episode S09E14 CryptoSpend’s Andrew Grech and Richard Voice

Fintech has mostly meant doing what banks do – but better, faster and cheaper. Cryptocurrencies live outside our banking and payments system – until now. CryptoSpend offers a VISA that allows users to BPAY with Bitcoin! Is this the future of payments?

TWISTA S09E14 CryptoSpend’s Andrew Grech and Richard Voice

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Episode S07E15 Up

Up co-founder Dominic Pym publishes the development roadmap for his neobank – is transparency and relationship the new face of fintech?

TWISTA S07E15 Up
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Episode S07E14 86 400

Would a startup be ambitious enough to take on Australia’s Big4 banks? 86 400 chairman Anthony Thompson and CEO Rob Bell tell TWISTA what it takes to disrupt Australia’s multi-billion dollar banking businesses.

TWISTA S07E14 — 86 400
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Episode S06E17 Fintech Focus with Data Republic and Frankie Financial

Data Republic founders Danny Gilligan and Paul McCarney discuss data ecosystems, then ‘metabanking’ with Frankie Financial‘s Simon Costello.

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Episode S06E16 – A Sobering Startup Muster

The fifth annual Startup Muster survey of the Australian startup ecosystem contains a wealth of sobering statistics about where we’re going backward. Monica Wulff and Murray Hurps go through the good, the bad, and the data.

To read the report for yourself, go here.

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