Australia’s Peak Body for Fintech
Disruptors, incumbents and regulators all need an
ARCHITECT
of a thriving, collaborative and globally competitive Australian fintech ecosystem.
It plays that role as the sector’s connective tissue: advocacy on CDR and licensing, the convening power of Intersekt and the Finnies, and a collective voice no single fintech could command.
Australia’s Fintech Sector · 6th Globally, 2nd in Asia-Pacific
Four groups, pulling
different ways.
$71B
FinTech Australia works across all four. The one body they all talk to.
400+ Members · Mostly Early-Stage, Time-Poor
Value Proposition
From a member’s perspective, what FinTech Australia delivers is…
“I rely on FinTech Australia to translate the rules, open doors I can’t open alone, and speak for me when one voice isn’t enough.”
Dimensions
Translator
Turns CDR, licensing and policy into rails members can actually build on.
Convener
The room where fintechs, banks, capital and regulators don’t just meet, they build together.
Advocate
A collective voice no single member could command.
Chosen for the Partnerships Role
3
by designThe three that move partnerships:
connection, de-risking, credibility.
Intersekt
Sept 2026 · The Connection EngineThe ecosystem’s annual convening: fintechs, incumbents, VC and government in one room. Every warm intro and co-venture conversation from membership starts here.
CDR Advocacy
+$1.2B / yr · The De-Risking RailsFinTech Australia helped shape the Consumer Data Right, now worth an estimated $1.2B a year. Members building on CDR are building on rails the body helped win.
Finnies + Tax Fight
June 2026 · The Credibility LeversThe Finnies shift how investors read a member. The live capital-gains-tax fight shows the body backs the commercial side too: funding, valuations, talent.
Three programs, one throughline: every partnership a member lands starts in a room this body convenes.
Member Success in Practice
The advocacy shows up on members’ balance sheets.
$12M
Three Finnies in 2025, including FinTech Organisation of the Year. Its CDR-built platform saves users $4,419 a year.
“CDR wasn’t just a policy win. For WeMoney, it was the product.”
80%
Of Australia’s crowdfunding market: $347M across 489 campaigns, 120,000+ investors.
1.5M+
Clients across three countries. Australia’s second-largest digital-assets brokerage, after acquiring Easy Crypto in 2025.
The Opportunity
Fintechs spend 18 months in a bank’s innovation lab, only to be turned away by a compliance department they never met.
70% of fintechs want to partner with incumbents. Fewer than 20% reach commercial deployment: the same compliance reviews, security audits and legal sign-offs, repeated for every bank, every time.
The Open Compliance Network
Prove it once. Every bank accepts it.
A shared compliance baseline, co-authored with our Tier-1 Associate Member banks and built on the CDR infrastructure we already understand. A scale-up earns the credential once, then approaches NAB or Westpac already pre-qualified.
The Open Compliance Network gets deals done.