February 08 2019
Company of the Week: Spriggy
Spriggy is a financial education offering for families built around a prepaid debit card for 8-18 year olds with a mobile banking app that parents and kids use together.
Young people get their own personalised debit card to spend online and in-store while parents get a simple digital tool to pay allowances, follow transactions and encourage savings.
Together, families get the opportunity to teach young people about money in a safe, simple and practical way.
In a digital age, where money is less tangible than ever, Spriggy offers the future of financial education.
Person of the Week – Scott Tonges, Co-Founder of Teach Starter
Scott is a digital producer and entrepreneur who is passionate about building impactful digital products through sustainable business practices. Scott began his career as a web designer and developer, before moving into digital content production. This grounding laid the foundations for the successful launch of Teach Starter.
Scott and his wife Jill founded Teach Starter in 2012. What started out as a humble mailing list for primary school teachers quickly grew into a digital teaching resource subscription service that is now used by hundreds of thousands of teachers around the globe to make their classrooms buzz. With offices in Brisbane and Austin, Texas, Scott and Jill have plans to expand the international footprint of Teach Starter by providing localised content to teachers everywhere.
Article of the week: Lessons for FinTech Startups from the Banking Royal Commission
After almost a year of hearings and headlines, Justice Kenneth Hayne has delivered his final report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
As the government readies to implement the recommendations put forward in the report and the sector deals with the fallout, FinTech startups too are taking note of both the lessons to be learned and the opportunities that have emerged from what has come to light.
Worth a read: 4 easy ways to stick to your goals
Beginning to change can be very difficult, but continuing on the rugged path to transformation is the real challenge. You might have heard this a million times and here’s an extra one for the road ahead: Change doesn’t happen overnight. Here are a few EASY tricks I use to assure I stick to my goals, change for the better, and continue moving forward.
Quote of the Week:
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL