So…who is Athena?
Athena… daughter of Zeus, patron of heroic endeavour, mother of wisdom and freedom, legendary loan warrior and Game-Changing Goddess of Good Stuff. She’s pretty awesome. Athena is here to transform home loans, removing the mortgage handcuffs, and arm home owners with what they need to save themselves. We’re talking serious savings in time, money and stress. Told you she was awesome.
Is Athena a bank?
We’re not a bank and act nothing like a bank. We specialise in home loans, and only home loans. We don’t do bank accounts, or credit cards, or other things banks try to sell you. We know how banks work, because we used to work for them. We’ve taken all the knowledge and removed all the bad stuff.
Is Athena a broker? Do you work with them?
Athena is not a broker either! We are a digital and direct lender – and the provider of credit. This means you aren’t handed off from a broker, to a loan originator or to someone else who services your loan. We manage the end to end experience and make sure what we promise upfront stays true right till you’ve paid off your loan. Also, we don’t use brokers to get business in the door, which is just another way that we keep our costs low, and pass the savings on to you.
How is Athena different?
Gee, where do we start! Our digital model saves us a lot of money, and we pass those savings onto our customers. We encourage, rather than penalise, people to pay their home loan off sooner. We reward you for staying with us. We have real, local people on the other end of the phone. We don’t charge you to join (we only pass on third party costs) or any on-going fees. And we can save you a significant amount of time, money and stress over the life of your loan. How do we do all that? We’re not a big bank.
Who is behind Athena?
We’re in good company. Some of our big investment backers include Macquarie Bank, Square Peg, Hostplus, Rice Warner, Apex Capital, RESIMAC Group and AirTree Ventures.
Where do you get your money from?
We’re providing industry super funds a way to access the Australian mortgage market directly and we’re the first in Australia to do it! Being a ‘non‑bank’ lender we also have access to funding at wholesale rates. Our strategic funding partner RESIMAC is underpinning our public launch.
