#59 Building the open banking infrastructure with Damir Ćuća from Basiq.

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey where we explore FinTech products, businesses and leaders.I’m your host, Mike Scott, co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital. Nona is an expert firm that accelerates product development for FinTech & Blockchain scaleups.In today’s show I am joined by Damir Ćuća, CEO and Founder of Basiq. We're talking about open banking and his journey of moving from a services business to building a leading Fintech product business.__________________________________Damir holds two masters degrees, one in design computing and the other in IT management. He spent 12 years running and building a services business, where he picked up a lot of experience, insight and capability around what it takes to build great products. His current focus is as the Founder and CEO of Basiq.Basiq is an Australian open banking platform enabling developers to build innovative financial solutions. They provide secure access to customer-consented financial data and powerful APIs that uncover valuable insights.Basiq has got a team of over 50 people and they’re growing fast. They provide a bridge between over 100 banks and 150 FinTechs, and they have helped over 1.5million Australians to securely share their financial data on their platform.They have raised multiple rounds of funding from the likes of Salesforce, Plaid and NAB ventures. Just this week announced another round with Visa for an undisclosed amount.On top of all of this, Damir has got 6 kids under 10 years!!! __________________________________Today’s episode sponsor is Nona Digital.Working with us to create or accelerate your FinTech product means you get access to our expert product teams across design and engineering that have been building products together for a very long time.You get the benefit of a studio that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals.And, you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are often able to build your product faster than anyone else could at a comparable standard.As one of our clients said “Nona is the type of business that paints the back of the wardrobe. Because if you want to be the best, that's the sort of thing that you do”.To get in touch with one of our principals or myself, head over to www.nona.digital.__________________________________Thanks for listening to the show!If you'd like to discuss your FinTech or Blockchain project with us, you're welcome to book a call with one of our principals on our website.I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.Connect with Damir or Basiq. Connect with Mike or Nona. Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube