Imagine your products disrupt bias and financial abuse.
Let’s make it happen.
Flequity empowers you to lead with safer, more inclusive customer experiences.
Catherine Fitzpatrick is the #1 international authority on financial safety by design.
Can you spot the risks?
What if the world you see is only part of the story? We’re here to help you uncover misuse and unintentional bias that limits gender equality.
And to make it right.
We’re also here to amplify your impact.
Because we’re a social enterprise, 50% of our profits from our independent consulting services are reinvested to fight financial abuse and gender discrimination.
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Designed to Disrupt™
A blueprint for industry.
Hi, I’m Catherine Fitzpatrick.
In 2022, I had an idea. What if products could be redesigned to disrupt financial abuse and gender inequality?
With almost a decade as a senior executive at two of Australia’s biggest banks, I researched and wrote the first Designed to Disrupt™ report, creating the financial safety by design framework.
I was delighted to partner with the Centre for Women’s Economic Safety to seek lived experience insights and publish it.
Inspired by the Australian eSafety Commissioner’s Safety by Design, it’s now an industry blueprint. Not just for banking, but for other sectors too.
Download the reports.
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Meet Catherine.
Founder of Flequity Ventures.
Nearly 30 years ago, Catherine Fitzpatrick met a woman who changed her life. The woman had suffered a terrible crime which shocked the community and catapulted Catherine into lifelong learning about domestic abuse.
For the last decade, Catherine has led business and industry-wide initiatives and advised governments on the hidden epidemic of financial abuse. A former bank senior executive, in 2019 she uncovered widespread abuse in online banking transactions and spearheaded whole-of-industry reforms to crack down on the practice.
Today, she’s the international authority on financial safety by design. Leading brands go to her for expert advice and practical solutions to protect their customers and enhance their risk management and reputation.
Work with us.
By partnering with Flequity, you’ll earn your customers’ trust, create more flexible, safe and equitable products, tackle financial abuse and amplify financial safety and economic security for women.
We partner with changemakers. Leaders in business, industry and government who want to challenge the status quo, reimagine the future for their customers and create social impact at scale. Leaders who want to shape a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.
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Australian businesses unite against financial abuse.
A Flequity initiative.
Flequity has launched respect and protect – a national initiative to disrupt the rise of financial abuse in Australia. Businesses are making a simple update to their terms and conditions of use for any product or service. Read the launch media release here.
“I believe in the power of collective action for positive change. If every business in Australia adopted this approach, it would be a gamechanger.”
Catherine Fitzpatrick, Founder & Director, Flequity Ventures