
Hi, I'm Alan Tsen
Thanks for visiting my little corner of the interwebs.
By day, I'm Director of Revenue Strategy at Chipper Cash. On nights and weekends, I spend my time investing in early-stage fintech startups. I also write a newsletter on the fintech industry called Fintech Radar.
I was the founding GM at Stone & Chalk Melbourne and prior to that, I was the CEO of Fintech Victoria.
I was also formerly a board member of Fintech Australia where I was the chairperson for three years. I was a member of the Federal Government’s Fintech Advisory Group and a member of ASIC’s Digital Finance Advisory Committee.
In a former life, I was a tax lawyer and founder of an edtech company.
What Most People Get Wrong About BNPL
If you were to summarise most news coverage of the BNPL sector, it would basically round to “it’s making kids buy more stuff they don’t need and driving them into debt.”
Fintech Radar: A New Place For My Thoughts On The Fintech Industry
Well, it was sort of inevitable, I suppose. But I've started a Substack newsletter, and it'll be the home for all my thoughts on what's happening in fintech. The plan is that it'll be a weekly newsletter that covers news from around the fintech globe and provides my usual opinionated

What Most People Get Wrong About BNPL
If you were to summarise most news coverage of the BNPL sector, it would basically round to “it’s making kids buy more stuff they don’t need and driving them into debt.”
Fintech Predictions For 2020
At the end of 2019 I tweeted my fintech predictions for 2020. I mean are you even in tech if you don't get your crystal ball out at the end of the year? In previous years, I've just let my predictions live on Twitter with occasional commentary about what I've
I'm Hanging Up My Stone & Chalk Vest
It seems like yesterday I sat down with Alex (our CEO) to chat about how we could bring Stone & Chalk to Melbourne. We chatted about the vibrant Victorian startup ecosystem and what an amazing opportunity it would be to expand Stone & Chalk to this state. After our conversation,

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