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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: Untangling bureau data, with Dillon Harindiran (Slipstream)
Description: Last week I compared credit bureaus to city walls, defensive structures that, because they’re solid and immovable, can keep the riskiest of customers out, but, also because they’re solid and immovable, can’t always let all the good customers in. Today, we look at those walls from the inside, and it turns out, their design is keeping some defenders out, too. Let’s say the first step is too high for some to step up onto. Am I stretching this metaphor too far? Possibly. The idea is that lenders and their data are...