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About The 13th Annual FinTech & Banking Summit 2026

Our Key Theme for This Event: The FOUR PILLARS of FinTech & Banking

 

Challenger
Banking

Bank-FinTech collaboration

Ai in
Banking & Finance

Digital Assets/
Stablecoins/Crypto


We are excited to be running the 13th Annual FinTech & Banking Summit 2026 in Sydney.
The FinTech & Banking Summit brings together the influential, disruptive and innovative technology companies that are redefining financial services across all areas of banking and fintech.

The 13th Annual FinTech & Banking Summit 2026

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  • DAY 1:

    Open Banking is the Future of Finance

  • Speaker: Andrew Boyd, General Manager & Head of Digital Native Business, AWS

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  • Senator Andrew Bragg, Chair - Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology

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  • Fred Schebesta, Founder, Finder

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  • Lisa Schutz, Founder & CEO, Verifier
    Jill Berry, CEO, Adatree
    Helder Klemp, Co-Founder & CEO, DNX
    Alexandra Jurmann, Client Solutions Architect - Cloud One, Trend Micro (Confirmed)
    Darren Booth, Partner, Partner, National Head of Cyber Security & Privacy Risk Services, RSM (Confirmed)
    MC/Chair: Dave Engel, AWS

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  • Q&A with Scott Farrell, Partner, KWM, and lead of the Commonwealth Government’s Inquiry into the Future of the Consumer Data Right (CDR)

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  • Brenton Charnley, Country Manager, Australia, Truelayer
    Damir Cuca, CEO & Founder, BASIQ
    Simon Docherty, Head of Sales, Frollo
    Tim Poskitt, Country Manager ANZ, Envestnet Yodlee
    MC/Chair: Tonia Berglund, Director of Product (Open Banking), Envestnet Yodlee

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  • DAY 2:

    Fintech & FSI collaboration

  • Paul Weingarth, Co-Founder, SLYP
    Drew Unsworth, Executive B&PB Digital, NAB

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  • Tim Dickenson, Co-CEO; and Rimal Gokani, Co-CEO of Assembly Payments, discuss their collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank

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  • Josh Foreman, CEO, Indebted
    Shahirah Gardner, Co-founder, Finch
    David Link, CEO, Verrency

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  • Simon Costello, CEO, Frankie One
    Macgregor Duncan, General Manager, Westpac

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  • Lee Hatton, SVP New Platforms, Afterpay

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  • DAY 3:

    Technology, Capital and The Reshaping of Fintech

  • Daniel Cannizzaro, CEO, Parpera (Crowdfunding)
    Naby Maryam, Founder, Coverhero (Angel)
    Anthony Nantes, CEO, Wisr (Public Markets)

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  • Josh Shipman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Elula
    Sarah Russell, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Elula

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  • Cathy Lyall, Seed Space Venture Capital
    Simon Cant – Reinventure
    Kylie Frazer – Eleanor Ventures

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  • Ryan Edwards-Pritchard, Co-Founder & CEO, Cape
    Oliver Kidd, Founder & CEO, Archa
    Daniel Kniaz, Founder & CEO, DiviPay

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  • Nathan Walsh, Founder & CEO, Athena Homeloans
    Jacqui Colwell, Chief Risk Officer, Judo Bank
    Rachel Gatehouse, COO & CFO, Brighte
    Sudhir Bakre, Chief Credit Officer, SocietyOne
    MC: Dave Fodor, AWS

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  • Summit Schedule 2026


  • How can banks offer customers products they know and need at scale, as well as new ways to engage and a new experience of banking?
    TBC


  • How can banks offer customers products they know and need at scale, as well as new ways to engage and a new experience of banking?

    TBC
    MC: Dalibor Siroky, GM, Wonderful AI


  • How is financial technology, as well as new partnerships, changing the shape of banking?
    

    Craig Carroll, Founder & Chairman, JustFund
    Aaron Bassin CEO and Co-Founder, Bridgit
    Travis Tyler, Chief Product Officer, Lendi Group
    Dean Mendelowitz, Founder & CEO, Lendus


  • How InDebted is transforming it’s business with Ai. A global collections business, with customer engagement tailored to the individual, in any language, with machine learning and robust infrastructure at scale, with guard rails and ethical oversight.
    

    Josh Foreman, Founder & CEO, Indebted


  • AFTERNOON: Note re session timings: Afternoon sessions are listed for an hour, however, each session is 40 minutes of speaking/Q&A and 20 minutes for networking

  • How innovations like real-time payments, stablecoins, and improved security is reshaping cross-border transactions, and how tokenised assets are reshaping banking, collateralisation and marketplace trading. The panel will discuss collaboration opportunities among banks, fintechs, and regulators to address challenges and drive growth.

    Sheron Mendis, Director, Money Movement / Head of Stablecoins, Visa Direct
    Andrew Ward, MD & Co-Founder, Liquidise
    MC: Lee Eaton, Independent Reserve
    


  • How will core banking plus architecture innovation layers change the face of retail banking and enable banks to compete & engage at scale whilst offering differentiated products from their competitors? From CX to Agentic Commerce, this panel will discuss all aspects of what it means to be a modern bank.
    

    Keerthi Iyengar, Chief Operating Officer, Constantinople
    Rolf Stromsoe, Chief Customer Officer, Great Southern Bank
    Steen Andersson, Chief Product Officer at Tyro Payments
    MC: Rebecca Cope, Partner, Ashurst Perkins Coie


Previous FinTech Summits

Attendees

Organisations attending our previous FinTech Summits have included:

Police Bank, Heritage Bank, Northern Inland Credit Union, RACQ Bank, Newcastle Permanent Building Society, XINJA BANK, Raiz, Finder.com, Douugh, Regional Australia Bank, VOLT Bank, Splitit, Flexigroup, Wisr, Clearmatch, Envestnet Yodlee, Seedspace Venture Capital, Allectus capital/ICM, Salesforce Ventures, ANZi Ventures, Scale Investors, Lendi, Sniip, Tic:Toc, Tradeplus24 Australia, Tank Stream Labs, nCino, 86 400, Afterpay Touch, Judo Capital, Athena Home Loans, Brighte, Up Banking, BASIQ, Frollo, Xero, News Corp, Liberty, Perpetual, NTT, Suncorp, Coverhero, Teachers Mutual, NSX, NSW Treasury, Austrade, ADCCA, AFPG, AIMS/SSX, Aircoin International, AirRemit, Allen Partners, American Express, AML Compliance, ANZ, APCA, Ashurst, Aurionpro, Baker & McKenzie, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bank Statements, BC Finance, Benchmark Media, Best Exchange Rates, Bit Trade Labs, CBA, Chi-X Australia, Codesource, Digital Asset, DNR Capital, emondo, EY, FinanceDesk, Financial Observer, Fincast, finder.com.au, Frederick Jordan Chambers, FundX, gale instruments, GBG, Goldman Sachs, Harmoney, Herbert Smith Freehills, Invest Blue, InvestHK, Investorbase, IPTMA, Joust, Keystone Capital, Korn Ferry, KPMG, Lab49, Lambdas IO , Leadenhall Corporate Advisory, Ledger Assets, Macquarie Group, Manning Asset Management, Map My Plan, MavenApp, Meeco, Microsoft, MoneyMe, Morgan Stanley, Motley Fool Australia, Nexus Law Group, Octet Group, OFX, OnDeck, Oracle, OzForex Group Limited (OFX), PayPal, Peter R Kelly & Associates, Practifi, Prana Credit Solutions, Preacta, Prospa Advance, Proviso, PwC, Quantifeed, Rackspace, RealP2P, Refine Media, Rice Warner, Roman Daniel Suit Club, Ronai Services, Schroders, Scottish Pacific, Sefiani Communications Group, ShortTermLoans.com.au, Skychain Australia, Smarter Group, SocietyOne, Spotcap, SPP, State Chambers, Stockspot, Succession Recruitment, SuperEd, SuperGuide, Swipezy, Swiss Re, Tactical PR, Telstra, Thomson Reuters, Transacumen, TSY, Tyro, UBS, Ultradata, UOW, Veredictum.io, Vuhn, Waller Lawyers, Webpresence Builders, Western Union, Business Solutions, Westpac, Worldremit, and XTB

If you have any questions, please email Glen Frost, Founder & Organiser
of The FinTech Summit & Banking Summit on glen@famfi.com.au