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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: Scoring for microfinance, with Joffre Toerien (Credit Insight Analytics)
Description: We like to talk about algorithms, and big data, and machine learning, but sometimes we’d do well to take a step back and ask about what the business really needs. This is especially true in developing markets, where consultants can forget to bring the organisation along with them when they implement the latest and greatest scoring tech.In this episode 5 of How to Lend Money to Strangers, I speak to Joffre Toerien of Credit Insight Analytics about the lessons he has learned building scorecards for microfinance lenders in Africa and Europe, how he manages the balances be...