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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: 'New to credit' shouldn’t mean 'too risky for credit', with Charlie Wise (TransUnion)
Description: About five years into my time in Hong Kong, I slipped my foot into a shoe only to bump into a frog sleeping inside it. Rough calculations say that, by that stage, I’d slipped a foot into a shoe 3,650 times in the city so the odds were greatly stacked in my favour. And yet, so great was my shock, and so increased was my awareness of what might slip under the door, that I checked every shoe every morning from there on out.Lending is similar. The pain from the one loan yo...