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Women's Commercial Finance Forum

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Gabrielle Aoun

Senior Business Development Manager

Gabrielle Aoun

My passion is specialist finance, which includes commercial lending. With over 9 years Insolvency and Finance experience, it gives me great pleasure to be able to assist brokers to achieve a financial solution when the banks say no. The opportunity to work with Yasmine and the WCFF team means I have wider scope to assist more of these clients.
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WCFF is an opportunity to celebrate the lady powerhouses in our industry. I’m thrilled to collaborate with the Partners and Brokers of the forum and share the ORDE difference. We are all so unique in what we can deliver in the Commercial market, which makes this forum extremely valuable and insightful for all. I look forward to uniting, educating, and learning as part of this Partnership.

ORDE was founded in 2019 and brought to market by a senior industry team with deep experience in broker aligned specialist lending and funding built by Wingate. Wingate, is a leading investment business and one of Australia’s most successful private property lenders, with more than $11.5bn of financed property transactions. ORDE is a full function specialist lender, delivering its over comprehensive product range, credit function and loan servicing. ORDE’s native operating platform delivers immediate and ongoing operation improvements to Brokers including better turnaround and reliability.

ORDE was brought to market to deliver a new benchmark in lending standard specifically for Brokers: – Broad product range (one stop shop) with flexibility and low borrower fees – Whole platform built on cloud digital efficiency with full external integration – Delivers robust servicing standards, speed, and quality across all deals – Highly experienced specialist Lending team driven by a “can do” solution delivery

Brokers should use Orde for: 

  • Broad products and flexible solutions
  • No ongoing borrower fees 
  • No claw backs 
  • Direct access to credit 
  • Comprehensive digital process enhancement 
  • Competitive interest rates 
  • Complete transparency and communication on deal flow, paired with BDM support

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Emma Kirwan

State Manager Commercial Broker Vic & Tas

Emma Kirwan

I have been with ANZ for 15 years, supporting our corporate and commercial clients to start, run and grow their businesses. I lead a team of passionate bankers and broker managers; and together, we enjoy working closely with our broker partners to find suitable banking solutions for our mutual clients – helping both the client and our broker partners to be successful in their business ventures. From my years of commercial banking experience, I understand the complexities of lending to businesses, across a range of industries and with each business being unique. I take a lot of pride in being able to share my knowledge, to help coach and develop both bankers and brokers build on their own commercial finance knowledge.
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I am honoured to be partnering with WCFF to work with like minded women, supporting each other to build confidence and thrive in the banking and commercial finance industry. 

At ANZ, our purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. That is why we strive to create a balanced, sustainable economy in which everyone can take part and build a better life.

With support from our valued Broker network, we use our insights, products and services to help individuals and businesses to grow, helping them to transform ideas, hard work and ambition into reality.

Our dedicated team will work with you to identify commercial opportunities and structure solutions to meet your clients’ needs.  Whether your customers are starting out, looking to seize an opportunity to grow or just managing the ongoing costs of running a business, bank them with ANZ and they will be partnering with a bank that is committed to supporting their business to succeed. 

PRODUCTS & OFFERINGS:

  • ANZ SECURED LEND
  • 30 YEAR LOAN TERM
  • DUAL APPLICATION
  • 10 YEARS INTEREST ONLY
  • 2 YEAR FIXED RATE – 2.65% (Apply by 31st October)
  • SWITCHING COSTS – $500 Establishment Fee & $2K towards Valuations

INDUSTRY SPECIALISATION

  • Health
  • Professional Services
  • Franchising
  • Property
  • Agri
  • Corporate

CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT

  • Direct line to bankers (not teams)
  • Smaller Sets
  • Local Credit

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2026 IFBF AGM Nomination

Dear IFBF member

Independent Finance Brokers Forum will hold its 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 10:00am (Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time) on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025.

The AGM will be conducted as an in person meeting prior to the commencement of the normal monthly meeting at the Rosehill Bowling Club.

The items for deliberation at the AGM are:

  1. The consideration of our financial report for the year ended 30 June 2025;
  2. The presentation of the President’s report for the current year.
  3. Nomination for the position of President for 2026
  4. Nomination for the position of Secretary for 2026
  5. Nomination for the position of Treasurer for 2026
  6. Nominations for Steering Committee for 2026


Any paid-up member of the IFBF can self-nominate for any of these positions.
A nomination form is attached for that purpose.

Completed nomination forms are to be sent via email to the Public Officer (stephen@amplanners.com.au) by the 29th October 2025.

If there is more than one nomination for a position, a poll will be conducted.
Paid up members who are willing to assist with the running of the IFBF can nominate themselves on the day to be part of the Steering Committee for 2026.

The Steering Committee meets once a month (on the Wednesday of the week following the normal monthly meeting) for about 2 hours, at the Rosehill Bowling Club and plans the agenda for the following month’s meeting.

Stephen G. Dinte

Dip. FS (Finance/Mortgage Broking Management) |
Life Member – FBAA | AFB(FBAA)| FAICD | JP

Public Officer