LoanOptions.ai appoints Head of Novated Leasing, expanding novated finance offering for SMEs
15 June 2026, Sydney: Multi-award-winning, AI-native fintech provider and asset finance brokerage LoanOptions.ai has announced an expansion of its corporate product suite with the official launch of its new Novated Leasing division.
Elizabeth Carrasco, Head of Novated Leasing at LoanOptions.ai
This new launch means LoanOptions.ai can now help small and medium businesses in Australia offer novated leasing to their workers. This is a free way for companies to give their staff a great perk: helping them get a new car and pay less tax, which takes some stress off the cost of living.
To lead the new business unit, LoanOptions.ai has appointed highly respected industry veteran Elizabeth Carrasco as Head of Novated Leasing. Carrasco brings over 16 years of combined novated leasing, salary packaging, deep consumer lending, channel sales leadership, and corporate client portfolio management experience to the team.
In her new role, Carrasco will spearhead the integration of novated leasing into the existing LoanOptions.ai B2B ecosystem. This will allow the company’s network of over 2,000 mortgage brokers, aggregators, and corporate partners to effortlessly refer novated leasing scenarios under a seamless, white-glove fulfillment model.
By combining Carrasco’s extensive channel sales expertise with LoanOptions.ai’s proprietary, ISO27001-certified lending technology AILO, powered by its Auto-complete Contextual Engine (ACE), the company aims to eliminate the clunky paperwork and slow turnaround times that have traditionally plagued the asset and salary packaging sectors.
Through the platform, employees of partner businesses can securely upload documents and receive transparent, real-time vehicle finance options across a panel of 90+ lenders in under five minutes, with zero impact on their credit score.
Julian Fayad, CEO and Founder of LoanOptions.ai, said:
“We are incredibly excited to welcome Elizabeth to the team to head up this vital new arm of our business. Novated leasing has historically been dominated by large providers servicing massive corporations, leaving small-to-medium business owners and their employees locked out of these significant tax savings. With inflation and the cost of living putting pressure on household budgets, giving SMEs a tool to help their staff save thousands on their next car is a massive win. Elizabeth’s unmatched experience, paired with our advanced AI infrastructure, ensures we can deliver a faster, more transparent salary packaging experience than anything currently on the market.”
Elizabeth Carrasco, Head of Novated Leasing at LoanOptions.ai, added:
“Joining LoanOptions.ai at this stage of their growth is a phenomenal opportunity. My focus throughout my career has always been on delivering tailored finance solutions and building high-performance channels, and LoanOptions.ai has built the ultimate digital playground to do exactly that at scale. By removing the traditional administrative friction, we are making novated leasing accessible, straightforward, and highly rewarding for Australian employers and their staff alike.”
About LoanOptions.ai
Founded by 2025 Finance Brokers’ Association of Australia’s Industry Champion of the Year, Julian Fayad, LoanOptions.ai is an award-winning and pioneering finance technology provider and brokerage with offices in Auckland, Sydney and Perth.
For over half a decade, LoanOptions.ai has been building AI systems that provide a fast, accurate, painless, and transparent end-to-end lending experience for borrowers, brokers, and lenders alike, while strengthening the broking channel.
LoanOptions.ai has developed the world’s first five-minute digital loan application journey that reduces manual onboarding by up to 80% and the world’s first unbiased loan matching engine that reveals loan options that a user is actually eligible for across more than 90 lenders with actual rates and fees displayed in real time, with absolutely no impact on their credit score, to name just a couple of technologies in its ever-growing and ever-refining suite of solutions.
Another is Synapses, a scalable plug-and-play API ecosystem connecting dozens of essential services via a single integration point with built-in NCCP compliance and supports AI agent development through Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Its dedication to leading industry innovation has been recognised with the countless industry, business, and tech awards, including Technology Service Provider of the Year at the 2024 and 2025 Australian Broking Awards, Best Industry Service at the 2025 Australian Mortgage Awards, Best Use of Agentic AI at the Australian AI Awards, Large Brokerage of the Year at the 2025 Broker Daily Innovation Awards Best Broker Innovation at the Finder Innovation Awards and many more.
For more information, please visit https://www.loanoptions.ai/
