Key hire
Aura Group appoints Elizabeth Dinh as new Head of Property Credit
Aura Group has hired Elizabeth Dinh, previously CEO of Acceler8 Capital, to lead its Australian real estate credit strategy serving corporate borrowers.
Company · Financial services
Bank of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Bank of Queensland raised.
What Bank of Queensland bought
Companies Bank of Queensland acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Stuart Grimshaw | Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Peter Deans | Chief Risk Officer (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Jon Sutton | CEO (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Toby Farrow | Acting General Manager (former) | Australian FinTech |
Coverage
Stories naming Bank of Queensland. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Series B
$35m
Breakthrough Aussie AI software firm banks $35m
Clear Dynamics has closed a $35m Series B led by existing backers OIF Ventures and Colinton Capital Partners, with new family office and private investment, to fund international expansion of its AI enterprise software.
Also OIF Ventures portfolio·Centerstone Capital portfolio·Startup Daily
Key hire
Global fintech Ebury targets Queensland SMEs with key hire and Brisbane office opening
Ebury's Australian arm has hired Toby Farrow as Queensland sales manager and opened a Brisbane office, expanding its foreign exchange and trade finance services for the state's importing and exporting small businesses.
Key hire
Raiz Invest announce board changes
Raiz Invest has appointed Stuart Grimshaw as a non-executive director from December 2021, replacing retiring director David Gordon; Grimshaw brings decades of financial services experience from roles at EZCORP and Bank of Queensland.
Key hire
Australian fintech success story Split Payments appoints new C-suite to support rapid growth
Payments firm Split Payments promotes Chris Jewell to CEO and hires Matthew Zaina as COO and Graham Hayworth as CFO, strengthening leadership during rapid revenue and headcount growth at its Byron Bay base.
Series A
Financial wellness start-up eyes next stage for growth
Sydney financial wellness platform Your Financial Wellness has raised a series A round and formed a new advisory board that includes former Bank of Queensland risk chief Peter Deans.
Key hire
New foreign exchange player SendFX welcomes former BOQ CEO Jon Sutton to their Advisory Board
Payments company SendFX appoints former Bank of Queensland and Bankwest CEO Jon Sutton to its advisory board, where he will advise CEO Paul Billing on growth, customers and capital raising.
Unnamed stage
$1.2b
Greensill to challenge Citi with $1.15b boost from Softbank
Softbank's Vision Fund has invested US$800 million in Greensill Capital, reportedly valuing the working capital finance provider above $5 billion, with founder Lex Greensill aiming to overtake Citi globally.