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Meet the team making it all happen

MoneyPlace was founded by a group of like-minded, energetic people that know personal loans can be done better. Starting with a blank piece of paper, we surrounded ourselves with brilliant people and began designing a new way to borrow and invest.

Stuart Stoyan

Stuart Stoyan

Founder & CEO

Paul Abbey

Paul Abbey

Chief Risk Officer

James Smith

James Smith

Chief Design Officer

Steven O'Connell

Steven O'Connell

Head of Compliance

Melanie Nguyen

Melanie Nguyen

Head of Client Services

Matthew Santosa

Matthew Santosa

Head of Corporate Development

Melbourne Is An Innovation Hub To Watch

Back to business: What the Coalition’s election win means for Australian startups

“The worst possible outcome”: The Australian startup community reacts to the election non-result

Wyatt Roy – one of the “great startup champions” – is set to lose his seat

Start-ups mourn likely Wyatt Roy loss

To hub...or not to hub?

Why Your Parents Were Wrong About Credit Cards

Fintech investment surges in Q1 but does that mean the Kodak moment nears for banks?

Building fintech castles in ASIC’s regulatory sandbox the play we need

An interview with Stuart Stoyan, Chief Executive Officer, MoneyPlace

Budget 2016: fintechs; MoneyPlace, OFX hail recognition

ASIC releases consultation paper on regulatory sandbox licensing exemption to facilitate fintech innovation

Australian startups to get access to a “world-leading” regulatory sandbox

ASIC to build fintech start-ups a 'regulatory sandbox' to test ideas

Sydney Morning Herald

ASIC to build fintech start-ups a 'regulatory sandbox' to test ideas

Australian Financial Review

Nation must deepen the talent pool for fintech success

Stone & Chalk ramps up plans for a Melbourne expansion

Australian fintech startups to get access to a “world-leading” regulatory sandbox

“A tired old boring Liberal budget”: The Australian startup community reacts to the 2016 budget

Budget 2016: Australian startups a little let down

Australian Financial Review

Budget 2016: Why the Turnbull government’s budget must not bust the Ideas Boom

The Australian startup community’s 2016 federal budget wish list

Manning targets super funds for P2P investor

Australian Financial Review

P2P lenders cautious

Peer-to-peer lending industry grows up

Branch stacking

Treasurer makes fintech pledge

Mortgage Business

Fintech funding pressures banks

Treasurer unveils fintech reforms

Business Spectator

The three “crucial issues” the new national fintech body wants to address

Macquarie considers US fintech deals, but 'risk retention' a worry

Sydney Morning Herald

Australian fintech ecosystem ranked among the top seven globally as new industry body launches

Australia tries to build fintech status in Asia

FinTech targets financial technology

Fintech industry provides reform manifesto to Canberra

Australian Financial Review

Complacent banks to blame for fintech disruption: ANZ chief

ANZ Bank boss Shayne Elliott tells Melbourne Fintech Meetup he's ready to invest

Australian Financial Review

US investors arrive in Melbourne for roundtable on investment in Australian innovation

Ernst & Young index shows nation lagging in fintech take-up

Janet Yellen may be P2P's biggest threat

Australian Financial Review

P2P lending offers investors 10% returns but what's the catch?

P2P lending offers investors 10% returns but what's the catch?

Australian Financial Review

Seven Australian fintechs to watch in 2016

The 14 companies that illustrate Australia's fintech future

Australian Financial Review

The year startups hit the mainstream: 2015 in review

Nine Aussie startups to watch in 2016

How this fintech startup secured an Australian-first $60 million bank partnership

MoneyPlace and Auswide Bank Enter into Strategic Relationship

Australian Bank Auswide Offers Up $60M to P2P lender MoneyPlace & Takes 20% Stake

Crowdfund Insider

Watershed bank deal for P2P lender MoneyPlace

FinTech startup MoneyPlace launches $60 million strategic partnership with Auswide Bank

MoneyPlace Partners with Auswide Bank

MoneyPlace inks five year deal with Auswide Bank

Auswide Bank lends $60m, takes 20pc in MoneyPlace

Sydney Morning Herald

Auswide Bank lends $60m, takes 20pc in MoneyPlace

Australian Financial Review

Innovation statement marks a “new era” for Australian startups

Innovation statement: The verdict from tech CEOs

Australian Financial Review

Deloitte tells big business to spin out more start-ups

Australian Financial Review

The innovation statement will include good news about bankruptcy for startups

Business Insider

What Australia can learn from the UK and US about crowdfunding

Business Insider

Crowd-funding laws fail to impress

Australian tech leaders explore steps to expand nation’s fintech boom

International Business Times

Turnbull's innovation policy derailed by backlash

Australian Financial Review

Victorian Government brings promised $60 million startup fund to life through independent body LaunchVic

This is just the beginning: Startups welcome Victoria’s $60 million push to be innovation leader

Victorian government builds $60m start-up launch pad

P2Ps will pick up volume as the banks sit back

Peer-to-peer lender joins ARCA

Mortgage Business

Leading FinTech figures release policy paper calling on government to create friendly regulatory environment

The National FinTech Census aims to collect data it hopes will push government to shape policy

Top dog or badly licked, policy paper points to Australia’s fintech future

Australia must fight to become fintech hub of Asia

Technology Spectator

Tech-driven start-ups face eliminating the banking friction

Fintech policy reform vital to fend off global tech giants

Australian Financial Review

Fintech policy reform vital to fend off global tech giants

Sydney Morning Herald

Australia poised to take “rightful standing as the fintech hub of Asia”

Kohler Uncovers: MoneyPlace

Aussie P2P Lender MoneyPlace To Open To Retail Investors Next Year; Now Open To ‘Sophisticated Investors’

Crowdfund Insider

Licence to lend

MoneyPlace second Aussie P2P lender for mums and dads

Financial Review

MoneyPlace second Aussie P2P lender for mums and dads

MoneyPlace takes its place among Aussie lenders

Melbourne FinTech startup MoneyPlace launches offering consumers up to $35,000 in peer-to-peer loans

Greens take aim at Turnbull government's Entrepreneurs Program

Sydney Morning Herald

Victoria pulls off SydStart heist

A new census has revealed that Melbourne has great fintech potential

Anthill Magazine

Melbourne gaining ground as fintech hub

Fintech Business

Fintech Census results reveal demand for fintech coworking hub in Melbourne and greater access to corporates and private funding

Census reveals Melbourne’s great fintech opportunity

Businesses.com.au

“Less of a pissing contest”: Victorians want centre of fintech excellence

Melbourne fintechs rival Sydney, but help needed

Financial Review

Melbourne fintechs rival Sydney, but help needed

P2P Lending — What It Is, Who’s Doing It, and How You Can Get Involved

Melbourne start-ups risk being left behind in fintech boom

Melbourne’s first Fintech Census launched to establish a collective voice and better support mechanisms for local fintech community

P2P built for the modern, sharing economy

P2P lenders want more regulation not less

RBA, Treasury probe high credit card interest rates

Australian Financial Review

Why banks need to change their “antiquated” ways

Fintechs have 'runs on the board'

Sydney vs Melbourne... does Australia need its own Silicon Valley?

Australian Financial Review

Learning from overseas fintech mistakes

Fintech Business

ASIC signals big shift in approach to P2Ps

Peer-to-peer lenders claim to be recession proof

MoneyPlace: Financial services are ripe for disruption

Welcome to Australia, MoneyPlace

Crowdfund Insider

P2P lender responds to its critics

Peer-to-peer lending space heats up in Australia

Startup Weekend to focus on FinTech industry

How tech is managing risk in the new finance industry

The MitchellLake Group

Interview with Stuart Stoyan and Paul Abbey, MoneyPlace

Global Retail Banker

The people you should never borrow money from

Who needs banks anyway?

Business Spectator

The collaborative consumption freight train

Business Spectator

Joe Hockey's red tape review is taking on the digital economy, and calling in tech CEOs to help

Business Insider

"We’re so regulated, it’s out of control": start-ups tell Productivity Commission

Financial Review

Australia VC: Policy permutations

Asian Venture Capital Journal

Freelancer, MoneyPlace to debate regulation

Financial Review

MoneyPlace promises fairer consumer finance

The P2P revolution: why are banks lagging?

Peer-to-peer lending slowly reshaping mortgage market

Former NAB notables turn on big banks with peer-to-peer lending start-up MoneyPlace

P2P lender MoneyPlace execs at the forefront of a $50b industry

Australian Financial Review

Start-ups look to hire new talent off back of tax change

Sydney Morning Herald

Start-ups call for speedy legislation

Australian Financial Review

AltFi Down Under - An overview of the activity

AltFi Down Under - MoneyPlace Profile

Online Peer-To-Peer Lending Is Really Taking Off

Business Insider