
Why So Serious?
Do financial services need to lighten up? Everyone loves a deal, and this time, you’re getting two for one as Olga is joined by fellow stand-up comedian and consumer champion Vix Leyton. In this episo...
30 Aug 202337min

Chicken Little
How can financial services fight AI-based cybercrime? Deep fakes and voice cloning are being used in increasingly sophisticated and nefarious ways, raising questions about what’s real and who we can t...
16 Aug 202328min

No Doubt About It
How do we stop imposter syndrome getting in the way of success? 70% of people get imposter syndrome and it also negatively impacts organisations, particularly in high-performance cultures like financi...
2 Aug 202330min

That’s A Problem For Future Olga
How do we get more people to understand the importance of financial planning? Making a financial decision is scientifically proven to be one of the hardest things for a human to do. We just can’t get ...
19 Jul 202334min

Elevator Pitch
What would Don Draper do to promote financial advice? Not enough people seek financial advice. Most think it’s only for the wealthy and don’t fully understand all the services a financial adviser can ...
5 Jul 202337min

Upfront Series 2 Trailer
Listen up, punks! The award-winning, hard-hitting financial services podcast from Iress is back. Comedian Olga Koch returns to ask the questions that nobody else is asking in a series of bold and fran...
27 Jun 202341s

Fast forward
What if your grocery store became your bank? Or your retirement fund merged with your favourite clothing retailer? These are the sort of non-obvious questions financial services businesses need to be ...
21 Sep 202226min

Vital statistics
For a lot of financial services businesses, data got no game. Meanwhile, other industries have found ways to turn data collection and analysis into a serious competitive advantage. Out on the sports f...
7 Sep 202234min



















