Platform Finance

Platform Finance is a finance and commercial brokerage based in Mildura, providing asset finance aggregation and processing services. It has over 25 years of experience in the sector. The company offers access to a panel of over 60 asset finance lenders and finances over 30,000 cars and over $1 billion worth of assets every year. Its full-service loan processing centre employs over 50 experienced asset finance staff. Platform Finance provides complete loan processing options from application through to settlement.

It offers a custom-built quoting and lodgement system called Platform Plus, as well as training and development programs for its broker community. Compliance support is provided, including training, templates, documentation, and tools. The company won the CAFBA Aggregator of the Year Award in 2020, 2022, and 2023. Andrew Bennett is the Group Chief Executive Officer, Damian Mantini is the Head of Strategic Partnerships, and Scott Thomson is the National Sales Manager. Platform Finance offers broker aggregation, asset finance specialists, processing services, and Platform Plus.

In Mildura, Platform Finance has earned consistent praise for its work in car finance and loan broking. Customers writing about their orders describe being guided through the whole application process by named staff, among them Tionne, T'ea, Jaymie, Tayler, Tahlia, Tanner and Hayden, whose patience and professionalism come up repeatedly. An aspect raised across a number of reviews is the team's success in securing competitive interest rates, with reviewers mentioning that dealership quotes were beaten. Communication is another recurring theme, with Hayden singled out for keeping clients informed at every stage and T'ea credited for handling questions and difficulties calmly.

The supportive and committed manner of Tayler and Tahlia is repeatedly acknowledged in accounts of new car purchases, where their persistence helped deliver the desired outcome. Reviewers also note that staff maintain a positive attitude and remain across the details throughout the transaction. The process is generally characterised as smooth, easy and quick, and even where matters took extra time to finalise, the result was regarded as worthwhile. The recurring message concerns both the loan outcomes achieved and the considerate way customers were treated, with Tahlia frequently named as the person who secured a better rate.