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Walta Kazzi

Co Founder

Walta Kazzi

Walta was a co-founder of Stratton Finance, with 200+ staff, Stratton is the largest online broker in Australia. In 2014, Stratton had a successful exit to the online marketplace giant Carsales Limited. Walta then co-founded Quest, which is a Next-Gen equipment lender, leveraging data, AI and Open Banking to make lighting speed credit decisions. Quest exists to serve brokers and small business owners by helping them save time, money and their sanity!
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A female manager once changed my life through her empathy, leadership and guidance. I want our industry to help nurture and produce more leaders like her.

Quest originally launched as a marketplace for business loans operating as a broker model but we got sick of being stuffed around by traditional lenders and Banks with outdated policies and onerous processes. The pain and frustration led us to reimagine a better way and so we started building technology for a lender model so we could take control of the customer experience.

Quest is a Next-gen Equipment Lender, powered by passionate people, leveraging technology and Open Banking to enable finance brokers and small business owners to apply in minutes, get instantly approved, and electronically sign documents for same-day funding.

We offer equipment loans up to $150,000 – We do it digitally and really, really fast.

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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