Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech Leaders
Fintech Chatter: Conversations with Fintech Leaders
Dexter Cousins | Founder, Tier One People
$480 - $4.7bn Australia's OG Peer to Peer Lender: Michelle Bagnall - Bank First
44 minutes Posted May 31, 2026 at 8:00 pm.
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Looking to upscale your fintech leadership team? Start at tieronepeople.com Michelle Bagnall is the CEO of BankFirst, a mutual bank with 92,000 members and $4.7 billion in assets that exists to serve nurses and teachers in Australia. In this episode she tells Dexter the origin story of a bank that started with $480 in a shoebox, explains why nobody at BankFirst gets paid a bonus, and makes the case that mutuals were the original fintech startups.