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Independent Lending to Institutional discipline

Volans is an Australian financial services firm providing portfolio-secured lending for wholesale investors—structured with transparent limits, disciplined monitoring and reporting rails.

Volans was built by former bankers and technologists with 30+ years experience across global banking and financial services. Our core team has worked together since 2009, operating inside some of the world’s largest institutions and alongside the most sophisticated wealth.

We built Volans after seeing the same failures repeat:

  • Portfolio lending was opaque, inconsistent and difficult to compare.

  • Liquidity for life events too often meant selling quality assets at the wrong time.

  • Global investing from Australia carried unnecessary friction—too many intermediaries, too little clarity.

We believed there was a better standard: clear rules, clean structures and lending that’s intelligible from day one.

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What Volans is designed to do

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Volans helps wholesale investors access liquidity against eligible share portfolios—without forced selling—so capital can be used for real-world priorities or deployed globally when opportunities arise.

We focus on what matters:

  • defined eligibility

  • transparent limits

  • ongoing monitoring

  • clear reporting designed for professional oversight

Independence Matters

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We operate independently alongside advisers and their customers, working jointly to structure facilities that fit the portfolio, the purpose and the required governance.

Advisers remain at the centre of the relationship. We provide the lending capability and operating discipline that supports clear decisions and consistent outcomes.

Borrowing should feel the same way premium investing feels, deliberate, well-structured and controlled. That’s what Volans is built to deliver—quietly, consistently and through market cycles.

Available to wholesale clients (as defined under the Corporations Act) via participating advisers/AFSL holders where applicable.

Our Story

Navigation, endurance and capital in motion. In the southern sky, Volans is a constellation long associated with navigation. We chose the name for the same reason we built the firm: sophisticated wealth deserves a clear bearing—especially when markets shift.

The flying fish is our symbol of that idea. Quiet strength. Long distance. Precision in motion. It captures how we think about lending: structured carefully, governed properly and designed to move with you across borders and market cycles.

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Volans is built and operated by Glide Digital Pty Ltd. We created the platform to bring a cleaner standard to portfolio-secured lending in Australia, one that is intelligible for investors and workable for advisers.

‘Capital in Motion’ isn’t a tagline for us. It’s the operating intent. To make liquidity accessible without forcing unnecessary decisions and make global opportunity practical from Australia when it matters.