Australia’s Peak Body for Fintech
The orchestration layer
for Australian fintech.
Disruptors, incumbents, regulators and capital. One body that gets all four pulling the same way.
Australia’s Fintech Sector · 6th Globally, 2nd in Asia-Pacific
Four groups, pulling
different ways.
$71B
Four groups, four different needs. FinTech Australia is the only body all four will sit down with.
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
Policy
Turns CDR, licensing and Digital ID into commercial rails members can build on now, not in three years.
Network
Where fintechs, banks, capital and regulators don’t just meet, they build together. Intersekt is the annual proof point.
Infrastructure
The shared standards and collective weight no single member could build alone. To Treasury and ASIC, it speaks for 400+ at once.
Key Initiatives
The two that move partnerships:
connection, then de-risking.
Intersekt
Sept 2026The room where deals begin.
Every partnership a member closes started as a conversation here. Fintechs, banks, capital and government — one agenda, one week, one room.
CDR Advocacy
The rails those deals run on.
WeMoney built their product on CDR infrastructure. Birchal’s market exists because regulatory clarity made it possible. Policy wins that show up on balance sheets.
The room creates the introduction. The rails make it real.
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, adding 1.1M customers in one move.
The Opportunity
Big ideaFintechs 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
an original proposal — Shourjo DasguptaProve it once. Every bank accepts it.
It doesn’t exist yet. The point is that it could. This is what an orchestration layer builds: a shared compliance baseline, co-authored with Tier-1 Associate Member banks on the CDR rails we already understand, using the same ACCC precedent that already lets banks collaborate on shared anti-scam standards. Earn the credential once; walk into NAB or Westpac pre-qualified. It standardises the commodity safety checks, not a certification or a regulatory tick. The bank’s risk call stays the bank’s.
The Open Compliance Network gets deals done.
The Future of Fintech Advocacy · 2030–2035
The bodies that build, lead.
The rest follow.
Coalitions standardise
Open finance profiles, shared audit utilities, compliance APIs. The peak bodies writing those standards in the next 36 months set the terms for the decade after.
Audit goes continuous
Self-reporting is already dying. Real-time monitoring, AI compliance signals and live impact dashboards replace the annual submission. Own that infrastructure, own the trust signal.
Fragmentation is the default
Without deliberate harmonisation, geopolitics produces rival data camps and a patchwork that favours incumbents. Harmonisation doesn’t happen by itself. Someone has to build it.
The orchestration layer for Australian fintech doesn’t just convene the conversation. It builds the infrastructure the conversation runs on. That work starts now.