FINSIA podcasts: Recent Episodes
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Risk professional Jacob Butterick outlines how independent advice from his mentor is helping him see the big career picture.
Activist and proud Palawa man Michael Mansell outlines his thoughts on why the vote should be against changing the Constitution to enshrine an indigenous Voice to parliament.
FINSIA Diversity Advisory Council member Adam Fletcher, who is a proud Wonnarua Man, outlines his reasons why we should vote Yes to change the Constitution.
With millions of Gen Zs and Millennials turning to social media for financial advice and inspiration, it’s hard to ignore the rise of so-called finfluencers. Natasha tells her story on the FINSIA Podcast.
Carsten Haubner talks to the FINSIA Podcast about ethical investing and how the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations can take the confusion out of ESG investing.
Steve Maarbani on why the digitisation on venture capital markets will open industry to millions of potential investors around the world with both the willingness and capital to invest in high-growth companies
Cris Parker - Ethics Alliance, and Banking and Financial Services Oath director - talks to the FINSIA Podcast about the benefits of the free, confidential service used by more than 400 people looking for help with difficult decisions.
As Artificial Intelligence continues to revolutionise the financial services landscape in ways never seen before, the FINSIA Podcast examines its adoption and integration - from enhancing risk management and fraud detection to optimising trading strategies and customer experiences.
Collective Shift founder Ben Simpson talks about how big institutional investors’ backing of crypto helps develop trust – despite Australians becoming more wary in 2023.
Former Special Forces team leader Max Pemberton tells the FINSIA Podcast how cybercrime is as profitable as the global illegal drugs trade.
Giles Gunesekera talks about the award from the latest Australia Day Honours List and reveals how he nearly had a different career to finance.
Kaizen Recruitment MD Matt McGilton shares his thoughts on the jobs landscape on the FINSIA Podcast as new data suggests the trend towards a working-from-home choice is still a strong driver.
China bull James Professor James Laurenceson admits his the most pessimistic he’s ever been – but acknowledges that business is still booming.
CoreLogic’s NZ Chief Economist Kevin Davidson goes through the data in the latest Pain and Gain report which he describes as weaker – but not weak.
Departing CEO and Managing Director Chris Whitehead talks about the key role education plays in professionalism
New Work Consulting director Julissa Shrewsbury shares her insights on how to make the most of your personal brand and social media presence as a way of accelerating career potential.
James Partington knows only too well how swapping work in the CBD for the suburbs is no recipe for a life of leisure and warns that walking away from a good salary is a big risk.
Specialist Investment Adviser Rachel Etherington tells the FINSIA Podcast there are opportunities for financial services in taking a leading role to avert an environmental catastrophe.
Diversity Advisory Council Chair Linda Maniaci and Lisa Lintern talk through the latest Gender Divide Survey for the FINSIA Podcast
'Her Middle Name is Courage' book author and award-winning keynote speaker Heidi talks about the importance of music, movement and laughter to millions of Australians who are enduring COVID lockdowns.
Kaizen Recruitment MD Matt McGilton shares his thoughts on the jobs landscape on the FINSIA Podcast as new data suggests the trend towards a working from home choice is still a strong driver.
Steve Maarbani - founder and CEO of Australia's first equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd - tells the FINSIA Podcast about Millennials and their appetite for alternative investments on a digital platform.
Former detective from Queensland’s high-tech crime unit Brendan Read tells the FINSIA podcast that the financial motivation behind the growing number of cyber attacks puts members in the firing line.
Responsible Investment Association of Australasia CEO Simon O’Connor takes part in the FINSIA Podcast as we continue with a month of special events looking at ethical investment.
BTC Markets chief executive Caroline Bowler, who took part in FINSIA’s first podcast of 2021, thinks so - and says the crypto currency is a being seen as a long-term investment strategy.
Beta Shares co-founder and CEO Alex Vynokur talks FINSIA’s latest podcast through the past 18 months, highlighting how Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) weathered the pandemic and are going from strength-to-strength 100,000s more investing in them.
BetaShares, which has more than $16 billion in assets under management, is about to launch a Climate Change focused ETF as a well as a Crypto-focused product.
A panel of female industry leaders shared their insights, experiences and thoughts on how the finance industry can progress and accelerate change in diversity at a sell-out event in Melbourne in February.
Five reasons why investors will get big returns from China in FINSIA’s latest podcast from a veteran fund manager.
Read more about Fang Zheng here and here.
Unique teamwork ethos turns boutique asset management firm Capital Four into a $10bn player in just over a decade. Fund managers at Capital Four set up the deal for Macquarie to buy Danish telecom giant TDC.
Hear about their strategy from founder Sandro Näf.
You can read our interview with Sandro here.
US economic forecaster serves warning to Australia over trade war between Donald Trump and China.
Listen to S&P Ratings chief US economist Beth Ann Bovino talk to FINSIA about the tricky road ahead.
Read Anne's interview with FINISA here.
One of the world’s leading architect’s of the professionalisation of the banking industry is in conversation with FINSIA for our latest podcast.
Chartered Banker Institute managing director Giles Cuthbert - whose professional standards courses have been sat by hundreds of thousands of people in the UK and around the globe - sits down with our chief executive Chris Whitehead for a frank discussion about what needs to be done to address the trust deficit.
Giles, who was in Australia to help FINSIA launch the country’s first ever professional banking qualification Professional Banking Fundamentals believes trust in the industry can be restored more quickly, but adds: “We need to start qualifying people.”
Our podcast withGiles Cuthbert, Managing Director Chartered Banker Institute, where we discuss Professionalism, Professional Qualifications, the Royal Commission and the UK experience.
Culture is king
Do you know who the 'culture carriers' are in your organisation?
A 'culture carrier' is an individual who is both deeply involved in the fabric of your organisation and an influencer within your workforce. When a challenge occurs in the workplace, you don’t go to the organisational chart you go to the people you like and trust. 70 percent of influence is through likeability. If you are able to identify who these influencers are then you can develop strategies to ensure they are a positive change agent and they align to your organisation's identified values.
In this podcast, Harry Toukalas, Group Managing Partner, Blackhall & Pearl discusses how AI tools are analysing social media and other information sources to identify behaviours and patterns to enable better decision making.
In this podcast, John Watters, Co-founder and CEO of Informed Position discusses the AI assets his company has developed to provide extremely high accuracy price and point position predictions for use in automated trading platforms.
Simon Culhane, Chartered FCSI - Chief Executive
Simon was appointed Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment in May 2004, having previously worked both with a number of blue chip financial companies and in Central Government. His previous role was at Deutsche Bank, where he worked as Director, Chairman's Office, Global Investment Banking.
For three years prior to this Simon was Deputy Director, Prime Minister's Efficiency Unit, Cabinet Office, where he was responsible for the Unit's work in a number of major Government Departments.
Simon spent his early career with Lloyds Bank plc in a number of roles including Senior Group Manager, Retail Banking for the Kensington area and in Chicago, USA.
A Chartered Fellow of the CISI and Member of the Institute of Financial Services, he was educated at St Paul's School, London and the University of Surrey. He is married with four children and his interests include sailing and supporting AFC Wimbledon.
Simon's interview in FINSIA's InFinance online publication.
Simon's indepth profile in FINSIA's The Standard.
In November, FINSIA held the second instalment of our signature event series, Future of Finance, featuring keynote speaker Caitlin Iles, Partner at Capital xx and other various industry figures.
Described by Sir Richard Branson as "a game-changer and force to be reckoned with", Caitlin is an experienced venture capitalist, angel investor, advisor (to enterprise and startups), serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, dyslexic and passionate change maker driving for diversity and equality within the new economy.
In this podcast, facilitated by Ben Hamilton, Caitlin discusses her experience in the venture capital space, women’s role as the biggest disrupter in the new economy, how to tap into this great commercial opportunity, ‘portfolio careers’, the value mentoring, the fourth industrial revolution and the role digital plays in how connected and disconnected society has become.
If you would like to contribute to future podcasts, please email us.
Are profit-based incentives compatible with a risk culture? New research results into risk culture across the financial services sector, based on a Macquarie University experimental study that is a first of its kind ever to be conducted with over 300 financial services executives. This study of risk management behaviour focused on compliance with risk policy – the minimum standard currently required of finance professionals.
Access the research findings here.
In July 2017, FINSIA delivered a national roundtable series for senior members on Crowd Sourced Equity Funding (CSEF) with Will Leitch, CEO of Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB). ASSOB is the world’s first CSEF platform.
The topic of discussion was on the evolution and disruptive capacity of CSEF.
By member feedback, we have produced a podcast episode that delves into:
- What is CSEF;
- The CSEF market, size, forecasted growth rates;
- How it is disrupting traditional funding pathways;
- How new legislation is enabling private equity investments for the mass market;
- Why Australia is leading the world in its development.
For our upcoming events, visit: http://www.finsia.com/events
Blockchain is the great whodunnit story of finance. Its mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto (if that is their real name) has circumvented traditional financial transactions by developing a decentralised way to establish relationships of trust between peers.
In this final episode in the fintech series, producer David Hardaker talks to David Gee, CIO of MetLife Japan; Daniel Biondi, Fellow and CTO, Financial Services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise; and Ripple Labs founder Dillip Rao about the many exciting uses for blockchain technology in financial services.
Great ideas don't always attract investor backing, with start-ups in the fintech space facing significant barriers to access funding.
In this episode, producer David Hardaker talks to Ben Heap, the founder of H2 Ventures, a leading fintech investing firm, about what's needed to encourage transformative innovation. Partly its regulation, but having a culture that encourages people to have a go plays an equally important role.
Innovators in advice, payments and data analytics; Stone & Chalk's residents are creating tools, products and platforms that are poised to profoundly change Australian financial services.
In this episode, producer David Hardaker talks to the people behind start-ups Mafematica, Adviser Ratings, Data Republic and Ripple Labs about their innovations and the value of the Stone & Chalk community.
Stone & Chalk, Sydney's second fintech hub, opened in 2015. The hub's ethos is that there are things set in stone in financial services (regulation, consumer protection), but everything else is written in chalk.
In this episode, series producer David Hardaker talks to Alex Scandurra, the CEO of Stone & Chalk, about the collaborative effort that is connecting the business community and government with innovative start-ups.
An act of destiny bought Jost Stollmann to Australia in 2004. In the years since, he has established Tyro; the first tech company in Australia to gain a full banking licence.
Jost has also established Tyro Fintech Hub, a home for entrepreneurs with ideas that can disrupt financial services.
In episode two of this series, producer David Hardaker talks to Jost about what it takes to disrupt the financial order and meets residents of Tyro Fintech Hub.
Will digital innovators kill the incumbents of banking and finance?
They're certain to radically alter the dominance of the Big Four banks predicts Ben Heap, founding partner of H2 Ventures, who expects that a new industry player will rank in the top five financial institutions in 10 years.
In our first episode in a six-part series, producer David Hardaker talks to Kate Carruthers, Chief Data Officer at UNSW, and Alex Scandurra, CEO of fintech hub Stone and Chalk, for their take on the impacts and opportunities for finance in a period of disruption.