How to Lend Money to Strangers

A podcast about lending in all its forms and in all the markets in which it takes place, however div

Episodes

Total: 165

"Data is a bit like the blood of an organisation. It goes everywhere. However, because it goes every

Designers speak about 'the job to be done' - you don’t need a taxi or an Uber or tuk-tuk, you need t

Rwanda is rising as a regional financial centre, catching the East African fintech wave to drive eco

The story of East African fintech is built around the mobile phone. Not the smartphone, mind you, bu

"At its core, Credit Canary is a data platform that consolidates and reconciles multiple different d

"It's important that in every interest rate environment, in every market environment, an average fam

Big data analytics used to require multiple sources of data, fed into your systems via a complex arr

Japan is an uncommon blend of known and unknown: I drive a Nissan, you might drive a Toyota, my TV i

You can't afford rigid systems in a world that moves fast, but also, for a long time at least, you c

When you want a model, you typically start with a target variable in mind. But sometimes that's not

"Causality is the new explainability."We all know credit limit increases are one of the most, if not

I've got a drawer in my bedside table that is filled with an assortment of foreign notes and coins:

No good deed goes unpunished and no well-intentioned government loan program goes undefaulted upon,

Nearly two out of every three Colombian jobs are in the informal economy! That's a huge number that

We all love how easy it is to change bank accounts these days... until it is our customers (and thei

It's only thirty years since Lithuania's broke free from the Soviet Union, but already it's home a b

"Trust matters more than ever, but in today's anonymous landscape, it is becoming rarer by the day.

Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy. Or maybe not quite, economic variables can be hard to measure a

Moishe Gubin is a workhorse, a mule. And now it's paying off: for him, for the banks he leads, and f

"Distressed property can always be repaired, not so distressed people. And so we focus on distressed