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How to Lend Money to Strangers

A podcast about lending innovation and lending leadership in all the markets in which it takes place, however diverse those markets may be. In fact, it’s a case of ‘the more diverse the better,’ with guests from New York to New Zealand discussing everything from crypto-backed mortgages to crowd-funded loans for refugees to gamified loan journeys to AI-powered credit scores.I am the host, Brendan le Grange, and I have spent the last twenty years working in - or alongside - lenders in Africa, Asia, and Europe and I’m using that experience to find and learn from industry insiders...

Opening a beer faster, with Oli Tomson (Era)

24 mins; March 06, 2023

Closing a mortgage faster, with Eilon Shalev (Elphi)

32 mins; March 02, 2023

Transforming the credit landscape in Central Asia, with Abdullo Kurbanov (Alif Bank)

24 mins; February 23, 2023

Now you can buy that boat you've always had your eye on, with Joe Dalton (Salt)

23 mins; February 16, 2023

Turning a customer obsession into retail credit, with Regan Adams (RCS)

28 mins; February 09, 2023

Lending innovation in Finland, with Kim Ahola (Creditstar)

24 mins; February 02, 2023

Financing the property industry, with Paul Watts (Lenuity)

29 mins; January 26, 2023

Credit management meets innovation and ethics in Nigeria, with Moses Nmor (BFREE)

26 mins; January 19, 2023

Transformative change in credit scoring, with Sanjay Uppal (Finbots.AI)

30 mins; January 12, 2023

Helping students to achieve their financial goals, with Ethan Fraenkel (ProGrad)

22 mins; January 05, 2023

Growth from a small island, with Mark van Beuningen (CIM Group)

28 mins; December 29, 2022

Pioneering fintech in Uruguay, with Mateo Infantozzi (Prezzta and Octa.dev)

20 mins; December 22, 2022

A credit bureau for emerging markets, with Burak Kilicoglu (CreditInfo)

26 mins; December 15, 2022

Building the P2P app she needed because no one else would, with Lika Osmanova (Lendwill)

26 mins; December 08, 2022

Strategy meets data science when it comes to SME lending, with Frank Gerhard (McKinsey & Company)

31 mins; December 01, 2022

NFT-backed crypto loans, with Nuno Cortesão (Zharta)

29 mins; November 24, 2022

Tax credit lending in future industries, with Zach Tarica (The Forest Road Company)

31 mins; November 17, 2022

Gamifying a route to a long-term credit relationship, with Jorge Enriquez (Credilikeme)

22 mins; November 10, 2022

More appealing credit card offers (and a trip around the world), with Chris Hutchins (All The Hacks)

34 mins; November 03, 2022

Fueling your business with other people’s money, with Jonathan Fodera (Integrated Business Financing)

27 mins; October 27, 2022

Using the power of amortisation for good, Jinesh Vohra (Sprive)

39 mins; October 20, 2022

Holding up a mirror to the lending industry, with Elena Botella (Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine)

39 mins; October 13, 2022

A more inclusive credit score for lending and securitization, with Toni Hubbs (VantageScore)

28 mins; October 06, 2022

How to lend money to refugees, with Lev Plaves (Kiva)

35 mins; September 29, 2022

Crypto-backed mortgages, with Phil Blows (ByBrix)

19 mins; September 22, 2022

The service is the collateral, with Neel Juriasingani (Datacultr)

29 mins; September 15, 2022

Explainable AI and a new style of credit bureau, with Evan Chrapko (Trust Science)

41 mins; September 08, 2022

Lending in frontier segments, with Todd Kleperis (Payzel)

25 mins; August 25, 2022

The future of South African banking is open, with Nick Tuttelberg (DirectID)

28 mins; August 22, 2022

BNPL in the Middle East, with Ziyaad Ahmed (Spotii)

19 mins; August 18, 2022

AI driven credit scores, with Sabelo Sibanda (CreditAIs)

17 mins; August 16, 2022

What lenders can learn from borrowers, with Nicole Lapin (Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin)

22 mins; August 11, 2022

Making payday lending redundant, with Caroline van der Merwe and Simon Ellis (Jem)

21 mins; August 09, 2022

Empowering entrepreneurial women, with Debbie Watkins (Lucy)

29 mins; August 04, 2022

How to stop lending money to strangers and follow your dreams, with Gideon Griebenow (World Turtles)

26 mins; August 02, 2022

Private lending for real estate, with Alex Breshears (Lend2Live)

29 mins; July 28, 2022

The value of self-regulation, with Anna Roughley (LSB)

31 mins; July 21, 2022

Putting core banking on the cloud, with Antonio Separovic (Oradian)

31 mins; July 14, 2022

The little credit bureau that did, with Paul Randall (Creditinfo)

27 mins; July 12, 2022

A foot-up onto the property ladder, with Cameron Orcutt (OnLadder)

28 mins; July 07, 2022

The data you need when you need it, with Simon Gregory (Data on Demand)

28 mins; June 30, 2022

Machine learning to power a fintech revolution, with Jeff Keltner (Upstart)

33 mins; June 23, 2022

Lending innovation in Moldova, with Bogdan Plesuvescu (Victoriabank)

24 mins; June 16, 2022

P2P Lending is Not Dead, with Mukesh Bubna (Monexo)

27 mins; June 09, 2022

Lending in Thailand and SE Asia, with Marco Chu (TransUnion) and Phadet Charoensivakorn (NCB)

29 mins; June 01, 2022

How to Lend Money to Charities, with Holger Westphely (CAF Venturesome)

26 mins; May 26, 2022

Building an all-in-one credit platform, with Ash Bhatt (Pillar)

40 mins; May 19, 2022

Consumer protection in Inclusive Finance, with Jayshree Venkatesan (Center for Financial Inclusion)

36 mins; May 12, 2022

Active credit building, with Sho Sugihara (Pave)

38 mins; May 05, 2022

Financing smart agriculture, with Allan Tollo (MyFugo)

29 mins; April 28, 2022

The cards are alright... for now, with Liz Ruddick (FICO)

28 mins; April 21, 2022

Expanding access to micro-credit and micro-incomes, with Adam Rice (AssetDirect)

36 mins; April 14, 2022

Purposeful BNPL in an emerging market, with Mark McChlery (PayJustNow)

34 mins; April 07, 2022

Open banking is mainstream, with James Varga (DirectID)

33 mins; March 31, 2022

Can the blockchain solve ‘identity’, with Jonathan Camilleri Bowman (Sekuritance)

37 mins; March 23, 2022

Open Banking in Greece and beyond, with Dimitris Petrilis (Infin8)

19 mins; March 17, 2022

Touch and tech in African consumer loans, with Michiel le Roux (Unifi Credit)

27 mins; March 10, 2022

Learning from our lending mistakes, with James Lambridis (DebtMD)

28 mins; March 03, 2022

Lending against assets, all assets, with James Constantinou (Prestige Pawnbrokers)

29 mins; February 24, 2022

Consumers and their credit data, with Kelli Fielding (TransUnion)

24 mins; February 17, 2022

Could we lend against crypto assets, with Phil Blows (AQRU)

33 mins; February 10, 2022

Fixing vendor finance, with Alex Armitage (Nectarine Credit)

22 mins; February 03, 2022

A global career in collections, with Chris Somervell

36 mins; January 26, 2022

What is an identity, with Jaime Ramirez (Preventor)

19 mins; January 20, 2022

Seamless working capital finance, with Alek Koenig (Settle)

21 mins; January 13, 2022

Gamifying credit scores for the unbanked, with Yatir Zaluski, Niharika Bhargava, and Jacobus Eksteen (ConfirmU)

35 mins; January 06, 2022

Credit scoring in Nigeria, from Jes Freemantle (Stratus Credit Consultancy)

27 mins; December 22, 2021

Lending against talent, with Joel Frisch (Prodigy Finance)

31 mins; December 16, 2021

Expanding the definition of credit bureau data, with Jon Roughley (Experian)

35 mins; December 09, 2021

The Russian consumer credit landscape, with Igor Propopenko (Experian)

25 mins; December 02, 2021

Building better collections processes, with Dylan Jones (IE Hub)

29 mins; November 24, 2021

Accelerating BNPL in Spain, with Jaime Marin Merlo (Fiizy)

23 mins; November 17, 2021

Fraud and identity trends, with John Cannon (Oakford Consulting)

32 mins; November 10, 2021

Resilient Canadian consumers are looking forward to growth, with Matt Fabian (TransUnion)

33 mins; November 04, 2021

Modern lending In India, with Praveen Sinha and Amit Pandey (Pincap)

32 mins; October 28, 2021

Consumer credit in the Nordics, with Jakob Færgeman (Experian)

31 mins; October 21, 2021

A Hong Kong market update with Dr Francis Lau

27 mins; October 14, 2021

The exponential growth of digital banking in Ghana, with Felix Duku (Duku Consulting)

28 mins; October 07, 2021

Making credit histories globally portable, with Misha Esipov (Nova Credit)

23 mins; September 30, 2021

Instant gratification with Michele Tucci, André Marques, and Anit Antony

39 mins; September 23, 2021

Lending money to friends and family, with Craig Smith (JustLend)

18 mins; September 16, 2021

Big data scoring for thin file and new-to-credit customers, with Oscar Koster (Big Data Scoring)

31 mins; September 09, 2021

Risk-based collections in the time of COVID-19, with Terry Franklin (Qualco)

34 mins; September 02, 2021

The state of the American consumer credit industry, with Matt Komos (TransUnion)

32 mins; August 05, 2021

Scoring for microfinance, with Joffre Toerien (Credit Insight Analytics)

38 mins; July 29, 2021

An insider‘s view of the Chinese consumer credit landscape, with Zhong Liu and Ruifeng Liu

37 mins; July 22, 2021

Leveraging BNPL to expand access to credit, with Georg Steiger (BillEase)

34 mins; July 15, 2021

Turning scorecards into revenue, with Graham Whitley (Quid Pro Consulting)

32 mins; July 12, 2021

A History of Risk Assessment, with Raymond Anderson (Rayan Analytics)

37 mins; July 12, 2021

How to Lend Money to Strangers

2 mins; July 10, 2021

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